Hadith Ishaq al-Dabari an Abd al-Razzaq

Hadith Ishaq al-Dabari an Abd al-Razzaq (Ḥadīth Isḥāq al-Dabarī ʿan ʿAbd al-Razzāq) is a hadith tract (juzʾ) transmitted by the Yemeni hadith transmitter Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Dabari (d. 285 AH / 898 CE) from the scholar Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani (d. 211 AH / 827 CE) Hadith Ishaq al-Dabari an…+1.

Transmission and Context

Ishaq al-Dabari was brought as a young child by his father, Ibrahim ibn Abbad, to attend the reading of Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani's works in Sanaa around 210 AH, shortly before Abd al-Razzaq's death al-Musannaf - Abd al-Razz…+1. Because al-Dabari lived a long life and died in 285 AH, his narrations became a primary vehicle for transmitting Abd al-Razzaq's corpus, providing hadith scholars with an elevated chain of transmission (ʿuluww al-isnād) Fatawa al-Shabaka al-Isla…+1.

This specific part survived through the transmission of Khaythama ibn Sulayman al-Atrabulusi (d. 343 AH), who heard it directly from al-Dabari in Sanaa Hadith Ishaq al-Dabari an…+1. From Khaythama, the chain passed through Abu Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ibn Uthman ibn Abi Nasr in Damascus, Ali ibn Muhammad al-Massisi, al-Husayn ibn al-Hasan al-Asadi, and his grandson al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Asadi Hadith Ishaq al-Dabari an….

Contents

The collection contains traditions transmitted by Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani from prominent second-century authorities, predominantly Ibn Jurayj, Ma'mar ibn Rashid, and Sufyan al-Thawri Hadith Ishaq al-Dabari an…+1. The narrated reports cover various legal rulings and ritual practices, including:

• Dietary rulings, such as permissions regarding locusts and fish, and prohibitions against killing certain animals like ants, bees, hoopoes, and shrikes Hadith Ishaq al-Dabari an….
• Obligatory charity and almsgiving, notably the parameters of zakāt al-fiṭr and the minimum threshold (niṣāb) for agricultural produce and livestock Hadith Ishaq al-Dabari an…+1.
• Ritual sacrifices, including the sacrificial offering (uḍḥiyah) and the birth sacrifice (ʿaqīqah) for male and female newborns Hadith Ishaq al-Dabari an…+1.
• The Friday prayer (jumuʿah), voluntary prayers in the home following it, and supplications during the designated hour of response on Friday Hadith Ishaq al-Dabari an…+1.

Scholarly Reception and Critique

Scholars evaluated al-Dabari's narrations from Abd al-Razzaq from multiple angles:

• Al-Daraqutni declared al-Dabari trustworthy (ṣadūq), and his narrations were included in the Ṣaḥīḥ of Abu Awanah al-Isfarayini and authenticated by Abu Ja'far al-Uqayli Lisan al-Mizan+1.
• Critics such as Ibn Adi noted that al-Dabari was very young during his audition and pointed to anomalous traditions (manākīr) reported through him al-Kamil fi Duafa al-Rija…+1. Ibn al-Salah and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani explained that while al-Dabari's transmission of Abd al-Razzaq's authored books is largely sound except for occasional textual misreadings (taṣḥīf), reports transmitted by him outside of those written compilations are subject to criticism because his hearing occurred late in Abd al-Razzaq's life, after the latter had become blind and experienced memory deterioration Lisan al-Mizan+1.
• The Andalusian judge Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Mufarrij al-Qurtubi dedicated a specialized monograph to documenting the specific words that al-Dabari misread or corrupted in Abd al-Razzaq's al-Muṣannaf Fath al-Mughith bi Sharh …+1.