Asami Mashayikh al-Bukhari li-Ibn Manda
- Author died
- 395 AH
- Editions
- Maktabat al-Kawthar
Asami Mashayikh al-Bukhari (The Names of al-Bukhari's Teachers) is a biographical dictionary by the hadith scholar Ibn Manda (310–395 AH / 922–1005 CE) documenting the direct teachers of al-Bukhari (194–256 AH / 810–870 CE) from whom he transmitted in his collection Sahih al-Bukhari .
Transmission and Provenance
The work was transmitted by authorization (ijaza) from Ibn Manda through his sons, Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman ibn Manda and Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab . In a letter sent from Isfahan in the year 479 AH, both brothers granted transmission rights to the hadith scholar Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn Nasir al-Salami, through whom it was transmitted to Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Abi Abd Allah ibn Mansur al-Baghdadi, known as Ibn al-Muqayyar .
Structure and Methodology
The text is organized alphabetically ('ala huruf al-mu'jam), grouping biographical notices according to the first letters of the teachers' names :
- It opens with the letter Alif, beginning with entries such as Adam ibn Abi Iyas al-Asqalani, Ayyub ibn Sulayman ibn Bilal, and Ibrahim ibn al-Mundhir al-Hizami .
- Sections that contain no entries under a specific letter are explicitly noted as empty, such as the letter Ta' (laysa fihi shay') .
- The work concludes with the letter Ya', ending with entry 306, Yasra ibn Safwan al-Lakhmi of Damascus, bringing the total number of numbered entries to 306 teachers .
Entries in the work provide the full name, tribal and regional affiliations (nisbas), kunyas, and patronymics of each narrator . Where recorded, Ibn Manda adds death dates, geographical notes on where al-Bukhari met or wrote from particular individuals, clarifications for narrators left unassigned (ghayr mansub) in the transmission chains, and references to specific narrations transmitted in Sahih al-Bukhari .
Publication
The work was edited and introduced by Nazar Muhammad al-Faryabi and published by Maktabat al-Kawthar in its first edition in 1412 AH / 1991 CE .
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