Asma al-Sahaba allati اتفق فيها al-Bukhari wa Muslim wa ma انفرد bihi kull wahid
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Asma al-Sahaba allati ittafaqa fiha al-Bukhari wa-Muslim wa-ma infarada bihi kull wahid (The Names of the Companions upon Whom al-Bukhari and Muslim Agreed and Those Exclusively Cited by Each) is a specialized hadith-narrator treatise by the Baghdadi traditionist al-Daraqutni (d. 385 AH / 995 CE) . The short work surveys and categorizes all the Companions—men and women—whose narrations appear in the two primary canonical hadith collections, Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim .
Scope and Structure
The treatise identifies each Companion transmitted in the two Sahih compilations and classifies them into three categories: those whose narrations were included jointly by both al-Bukhari and Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, those included exclusively by al-Bukhari, and those included exclusively by Muslim . It was composed as part of al-Daraqutni's broader critical efforts on the Sahihayn, complementing his companion treatise on the trustworthy Successors and later narrators cited in the two works, so that the two works together encompass the transmitters of both collections .
Historical Standing and Reception
Al-Daraqutni is the earliest known scholar to write a dedicated work classifying the Companions in the Sahihayn into agreed-upon and solitary transmissions . His effort established a model followed and expanded upon by subsequent scholars, beginning with his own disciples . His student al-Hakim al-Naysaburi (d. 405 AH) incorporated a dedicated chapter on the transmitters of the two Sahihs starting with the Companions in al-Madkhal ila al-Sahih . Another student, Abu al-Fath Ibn Abi al-Fawaris (d. 412 AH), composed a parallel treatise modeled closely on al-Daraqutni's work, citing his teacher by name for eight individual Companions while introducing minor structural variations, such as separating men from women and adding missing entries .
Later compilers drew upon these foundations, including al-Humaydi (d. 488 AH) in al-Jamʿ bayna al-Sahihayn, which in turn served as the basis for subsequent works by Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597 AH) and others .
Textual Transmission
The text survives in several manuscript copies representing two main textual branches . One branch—exemplified by an early copy transcribed in 695 AH with a transmission chain running through Ibn Abi al-Fawaris—contains seventeen additional Companion names that parallel the additions found in al-Hakim's al-Madkhal , while the other branch has one unique name and slight differences in ordering and categorization between joint and solitary listings . The treatise has been edited and published by Jabir ibn Abd Allah al-Sari' alongside the related treatise of Ibn Abi al-Fawaris .
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