Misfar al-Dumayni
- Died
- 1436 AH
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Misfar al-Dumayni (d. 1436 AH / 2015 CE) was a contemporary Saudi hadith scholar and university professor, recognized for his research on hadith methodology and his study Maqayis Naqd Mutun al-Sunnah ("Criteria for the Criticism of Hadith Texts") .
Academic Career
Misfar ibn Ghuram Allah al-Dumayni served as an academic in Saudi Arabia . He taught and supervised postgraduate research in hadith documentation and prophetic traditions at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh .
Scholarly Contributions
Al-Dumayni specialized in the principles of hadith verification, narrator evaluation (al-jarh wa al-ta'dil), and text criticism (naqd al-matn). In his study Maqayis Naqd Mutun al-Sunnah, he analyzed the foundational criteria used by the Companions and early hadith masters to critically assess narrative content, including cross-referencing narrations with the Quran, collating variant transmission paths, and applying established historical data to detect textual anomalies .
In Al-Tadlis fi al-Hadith ("Concealment in Hadith"), al-Dumayni examined the legal rulings, categories, and ranking tiers of narrator concealment (tadlis), critiquing traditional tier assignments of several early transmitters . He also produced focused investigations into classical critical idioms; in his study Qawl al-Bukhari: Fihi Nazar ("The Expression of al-Bukhari: 'There is Doubt Regarding Him'"), he analyzed the specific terminology used by Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari, demonstrating that this particular phrasing indicated moderate weakness rather than an extreme classification of fabricated or abandoned narration .
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List of Works
Marwiyat al-Sira al-Nabawiyya bayna Qawa'id al-Muhaddithin wa-Riwayat al-Ikhbariyyin ("Reports of the Prophetic Biography between the Rules of Hadith Scholars and the Accounts of Chroniclers") is a scholarly treatise examining the methodological evaluation and verification of prophetic biography (al-sira al-nabawiyya) narratives.