Hadith Mujaa ibn al-Zubayr
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- 146 AH
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- Dār al-Bashā'ir al-Islāmiyyah
Hadith Mujaa ibn al-Zubayr (Min Hadith Abi Ubaydah Muja'a ibn al-Zubayr al-Ataki al-Basri) is a hadith tract (juz' / nuskhah) containing prophetic narrations and traditions transmitted by the early Basran hadith narrator Abu Ubaydah Muja'a ibn al-Zubayr al-Ataki al-Basri (d. 146 AH / 763 CE).
Transmission and Structure
The collection originates from the extensive manuscript transmission (nuskhah) preserved through Muja'a's student Abdullah ibn Rashid al-Jundaysaburi, which was subsequently transmitted by al-Sari ibn Sahl al-Jundaysaburi (d. 289 AH). Ibn Adi noted that both Abdullah ibn Rashid and Hadir ibn Mutahhar transmitted long nuskhah collections from Muja'a.
The extant compiled text is arranged into three sections:
- Part One: Narrations transmitted by the judge Abu al-Husayn Abd al-Baqi ibn Qani' from al-Sari ibn Sahl from Abdullah ibn Rashid from Muja'a.
- Part Two: Narrations transmitted by Abu al-Husayn Abd al-Samad ibn Ali al-Tasti al-Baghdadi from al-Sari ibn Sahl from Abdullah ibn Rashid from Muja'a, including an appended transmission of hadiths received by Ibn Qani' from his own teachers.
- Part Three: Additional narrations from al-Sari's transmission from Muja'a that were not included in the first two parts.
The audition notes on the manuscript trace the transmission from Ibn Qani' via Ahmad ibn Ali ibn al-Bada, then Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Jabban, to Abu al-Ma'ali Muhammad ibn Muhammad, and down to Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Harawi al-Ishkidhibani, with recorded audition for Ismail ibn Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Ansari al-Maliki, known as Ibn al-Anmati.
Scholarly Evaluation
The transmitters in the primary isnad of the text have received varied assessments by hadith critics. Muja'a ibn al-Zubayr was commended by Shu'ba ibn al-Hajjaj for his piety and devotion, while Ahmad ibn Hanbal stated that there was nothing wrong with him personally (la ba'sa bihi fi nafsihi), and Ibn Adi considered his narrations tolerable and worth recording. Conversely, al-Daraqutni declared Muja'a weak (da'if). Furthermore, al-Bayhaqi noted that neither al-Sari ibn Sahl nor his teacher Abdullah ibn Rashid is relied upon as proof (la yuhtajju bih).
Publication
The work was edited by Amir Hasan Sabri and published by Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah in Beirut (1st ed., 1423 AH / 2003 CE) in a compendium containing three hadith treatises, appearing as the twentieth entry in their series of hadith parts and monographs (Silsilat al-Ajza' wa-al-Kutub al-Hadithiyya).
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