Shadi Al Numan
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Shadi Al Numan (Abu Hafs Shadi ibn Muhammad ibn Salim Al Numan) is a contemporary Yemeni scholar, researcher, and editor of classical Islamic texts based in Sanaa, Yemen . He founded the Al-Numan Center for Research, Islamic Studies, Heritage Verification, and Translation (مركز النعمان للبحوث والدراسات الإسلامية وتحقيق التراث والترجمة) to publish critical editions and scholarly compendiums .
Scholarly Career and Activities
Al Numan focused his scholarly work on the preservation and critical verification of unpublished manuscripts in Hadith sciences, biographical evaluation (علم الرجال والجرح والتعديل), theology, and jurisprudence . Working from Sanaa, he directed editorial projects aimed at publishing classical texts for the first time from manuscript witnesses . Alongside his academic research, he engaged in Islamic outreach, traveling internationally on preaching tours to countries such as Indonesia, where he completed parts of his writing .
His editorial output includes the first complete edition of Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi's foundational biographical dictionary al-Kamal fi Asma al-Rijal, verified against nine manuscripts and reviewed by Badr ibn Abd Allah al-Badr , as well as Ibn Kathir's biographical compendium al-Takmil fi al-Jarh wal-Tadil wa-Marifat al-Thiqat wal-Duafa wal-Majahil . He also compiled Jami Turath al-Allamah al-Albani, a multi-volume thematic encyclopedia aggregating the jurisprudential, theological, and methodological verdicts of Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani .
Reception
Al Numan's editorial projects and compilations received commendations from contemporary scholars. Abu al-Hasan Mustafa ibn Ismail al-Sulaymani praised his productivity, determination, and dedication to reviving unprinted Hadith manuscripts from Yemen . Ali Hasan al-Halabi commended his systematic collection and arrangement of modern scholarly heritage, noting the rigor required for such compilations .
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List of Works
al-Jami li-Kutub al-Duafa wal-Matrukin wal-Kadhabin (The Compendium of the Books on Weak, Abandoned, and Untruthful Narrators) is a multi-volume biographical hadith encyclopedia that brings together and chronologically arranges entries on disparaged transmitters from twenty-nine classical works on narrator criticism (al-jarh wal-tadil).