Ibn Naqah
- Died
- 559 AH
- Born in
- Kufa
Ibn Naqah (d. 559 AH / 1163–1164 CE) was a Kufa-based Hanafi jurist, grammarian, and hadith scholar, known for compiling a collection of chained traditions (musalsalat) .
Life and Scholarship
His full name was Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Ahmad ibn Zayd ibn Naqah al-Kufi al-Hanafi, also recorded in biographical sources with the name Ibn Naqid and the nisba al-Musayki . He was described as an ascetic scholar (al-zahid), grammarian, and jurist adhering to the Hanafi school of law .
He transmitted hadith from prominent scholars of his era, most notably the traditionist Abu al-Ghana'im Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Maymun al-Narsi . Students and contemporaries took narrations directly from him; in Jumada al-Ula 552 AH, the hadith scholar Ibn Shafi' al-Jili read transmissions in his presence, and his collection was transmitted by Abu al-Fadl Abd al-Salam ibn Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Bakran al-Dahiri .
His scholarly contribution is preserved in his specialized hadith booklet Ahadith Musalsala, which gathers narrations featuring uniform verbal formulas, bodily gestures, or specific circumstances maintained continuously across the transmission chains from his teachers back to the Prophet ﷺ . He died in 559 AH (1163–1164 CE) .
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List of Works
Ahadith Musalsala Riwayat Ibn Naqa is a short hadith tract (juz') gathering a selection of musalsal traditions. These narrations are characterized by a continuous, uniform feature, verbal formula, or physical gesture repeated by every transmitter along the chain of transmission (isnad).