Sibghat Allah al-Madrasi al-Hindi
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- 1280 AH
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Sibghat Allah al-Madrasi al-Hindi (1211–1280 AH / 1796–1863 CE) was an Indian Shafi'i jurist, hadith scholar, and judge based in Madras, best known for his treatise Dhayl al-Qawl al-Musaddad .
Lineage and Upbringing
He was Muhammad Sibghat Allah ibn Muhammad Ghawth ibn Nasir al-Din (Muhammad) ibn Nizam al-Din ibn Abd Allah al-Shahid al-Hashimi al-Shafi'i al-Madrasi . He was granted the official honorific titles Badr al-Dawla and Qadi al-Mulk . He was born in Madras on 5 Muharram 1211 AH and memorized the Quran during his youth .
Education and Teachers
He began his formal studies by taking introductory lessons in morphology from Abd al-Ali ibn Nizam al-Din al-Lakhnawi (known as Bahr al-Ulum) for blessing . He studied Arabic grammar and morphology under Ja'far Husayn al-Madrasi, and learned logic, philosophy, and mathematics under his father, Muhammad Ghawth . Under Ala' al-Din ibn Anwar al-Haqq, he studied Musallam al-thubut in legal theory, al-Hidaya in Hanafi jurisprudence, Mir Zahid's supercommentary on Sharh al-mawaqif, and al-Nafisi in medicine .
In hadith, he received general transmissions from Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Allam al-Jaddawi al-Makki and Umar ibn Abd al-Rasul al-Makki by correspondence . He transmitted al-Sahih from Abd al-Wahhab ibn Muhammad Shakir al-Mawsili, and in Medina from the shaykh of the Prophet's Mosque, Dawud Pasha . He also transmitted Dala'il al-khayrat through Wali Allah ibn Muhammad Azim al-Bihari .
Career, Scholarly Output, and Students
He served as a judge and issued legal verdicts in Madras . In hadith criticism, he composed Dhayl al-Qawl al-Musaddad as an appendix to Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's al-Qawl al-musaddad, in which he defended additional narrations in Musnad Ahmad against charges of fabrication that Ibn Hajar had omitted . His hadith lectures also yielded recorded glosses on Jami' al-Tirmidhi, and he compiled a thabat (record of transmissions) documenting his chains of narration .
Among those who studied under him and transmitted his works were his sons, including Muhammad Sa'id, Abd Allah, Ubayd Allah, and Mahmud, as well as his nephew Sayyid Ishaq ibn Qasim al-Madrasi .
Death
He died in 1280 AH (1863 or 1864 CE) .
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List of Works
Dhayl al-Qawl al-Musaddad (full title: Dhayl al-Qawl al-Musaddad fi al-Dhabb ʿan al-Musnad lil-Imam Ahmad) is a hadith treatise written to defend Musnad Ahmad against accusations that it contains fabricated hadiths. Conceived as an appendix to Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's al-Qawl al-Musaddad fi al-Dhabb ʿan al-Musnad, it examines and defends twenty-two additional narrations from the Musnad that had been omitted by Ibn Hajar.