Juz Abu Aruba al-Harrani bi-Riwayat al-Antaki
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- 318 AH
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Juz Abu Aruba al-Harrani bi-Riwayat al-Antaki (Juzʾ Abī ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī bi-Riwāyat al-Anṭākī) is a collection of hadiths and traditions transmitted by the traditionist Abu Aruba al-Harrani (d. 318 AH / 930 CE) from his various teachers, preserved through the transmission of the judge Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Bundar al-Antaki .
Transmission and Isnad
The transmission recorded in the text traces the work back from Abu Aruba through multiple generations of scholars :
- Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Bundar al-Antaki, the judge of Adana, who verified the text when it was read to him by 'Ali ibn Salih al-Balkhi in Rajab 383 AH .
- Abu al-Husayn 'Abd al-Malik ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Suhayb ibn Mahmud ibn Miskin al-Shafi'i, who heard it from al-Antaki in Muharram 442 AH .
- Abu al-Fadl Ja'far ibn al-Qasim ibn Ja'far ibn al-Ashajj al-Anmati, who heard it in Tyre (Sur) in Safar 494 AH .
- Abu al-Fath Nasr Allah ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Qawi al-Massisi, who heard it in Safar 535 AH .
- Baha' al-Din Abu Muhammad al-Qasim ibn 'Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Asakir and Abu al-Husayn Ahmad ibn Hannus al-Ghanawi, who received it from al-Massisi, with the text preserved through Isma'il ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd al-Muhsin al-Ansari, known as Ibn al-Anmati .
Structure and Content
The collection comprises 75 numbered narrations encompassing prophetic hadiths, statements of the Companions, and historical reports . Abu Aruba narrates these items from many of his teachers, including Mughirah ibn 'Abd al-Rahman, Makhlad ibn Malik al-Salamasini, Hatim ibn Bakr ibn Ghaylan, 'Amr ibn 'Uthman, Ahmad ibn Sulayman, al-Musayyab ibn Wadih, Bundar Muhammad ibn Bashshar, and Abu Kurayb .
The texts address legal topics, devotional practices, ethics, and eschatological reports, including:
- Legal rulings on marriage, fasting, ritual purity, prayer times, and the Friday bath .
- The severity of fabricating hadith against the Prophet ﷺ .
- Eschatological and military campaigns, such as the narration mentioning the expedition to India and the descent of Jesus .
- Anecdotes involving early figures, including the story of Kilab ibn Umayya reciting poetry regarding his service in jihad during the caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khattab and his duty to his parents .
The work concludes with a critical remark by Abu Aruba regarding transmitter names; when the transmitter recited "Ghundar narrated to you," Abu Aruba objected to using the nickname and insisted that it be written as Muhammad ibn Ja'far .
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