Man Ismuhu Ata min Ruwat al-Hadith
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- 360 AH
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Man Ismuhu ʿAṭāʾ min Ruwāt al-Ḥadīth (Arabic: من اسمه عطاء من رواة الحديث, "Those Named ʿAtaʾ Among Hadith Transmitters") is a specialized biographical hadith treatise (juzʾ) compiled by the hadith master al-Tabarani (260–360 AH / 873–971 CE) . It documents narrators of prophetic traditions who shared the given name ʿAtaʾ, recording sample narrations through the author's own chains of transmission .
Subject and Structure
The book belongs to the genre of onomastic hadith literature devoted to transmitters bearing a single given name . Al-Tabarani arranges the treatise as a succession of brief entries for individuals named ʿAtaʾ across various generations of transmitters, including Companions and Successors .
The text opens with the Companion ʿAtaʾ al-Shaybi from the Banu Shayba clan . It then covers prominent and obscure figures alike, including:
- ʿAtaʾ ibn Yasar
- ʿAtaʾ ibn Yazid al-Laythi
- ʿAtaʾ al-Shami
- ʿAtaʾ al-Attar
- ʿAtaʾ ibn Farrukh
- ʿAtaʾ ibn Abi Maymunah
- ʿAtaʾ ibn Bukht
- ʿAtaʾ ibn Abi Marwan
- ʿAtaʾ ibn Masʿud al-Kaʿbi
- ʿAtaʾ ibn Khabbab
- ʿAtaʾ ibn Dinar al-Hudhali
- ʿAtaʾ ibn Qurrah
- ʿAtaʾ ibn Nafiʿ al-Kaykharani
- ʿAtaʾ Abu Yaʿla al-Ta'ifi
- ʿAtaʾ ibn al-Sa'ib
- ʿAtaʾ al-Bazzaz
- ʿAtaʾ Abu Muhammad
- ʿAtaʾ ibn Muslim al-Sanʿani
- ʿAtaʾ ibn Muslim al-Khaffaf al-Halabi
- ʿAtaʾ ibn Jabalah al-Qarawi
- ʿAtaʾ ibn ʿAjlan
- ʿAtaʾ al-Sulaymi
- ʿAtaʾ Mawla Ibn Sibaʿ
The text concludes with the entry for ʿAtaʾ ibn Zuhayr .
Method
For each narrator, al-Tabarani generally identifies the individual's regional affiliation or nisba (such as Makki, Madani, Basri, Kufi, Shami, or Wasiti), names key teachers or students, and cites one or more illustrative hadiths with complete transmission chains (isnāds) leading back to the Prophet ﷺ or Companions .
Al-Tabarani frequently includes critical remarks on the uniqueness or rarity of the reports, identifying instances where a narrator transmitted only a single known hadith or held a unique transmission path (tafarrud) . He also notes biographical and critical assessments (al-jarḥ wa-al-taʿdīl); for instance, he records that Yahya ibn Ma'in deemed ʿAtaʾ ibn Dinar reliable while Ahmad ibn Hanbal classified him as weak , describes ʿAtaʾ ibn al-Sa'ib as trustworthy but subject to confusion (ikhtilāṭ) late in life , characterizes ʿAtaʾ ibn ʿAjlan as weak in narration , and highlights the asceticism and piety of ʿAtaʾ al-Sulaymi, noting that his reports are disconnected (munqaṭiʿāt) .
Transmission and Publication
The work was transmitted through early hadith scholars, notably via Abu Nu'aym al-Isbahani from al-Tabarani . It is recorded among the high-transmission short tracts (al-ajzāʾ al-manthūrah al-ʿāliyah) audited by scholars such as Abu Sa'd al-Sam'ani and Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti .
The treatise has been edited and published in modern times by Hisham ibn Isma'il al-Saqqa (Abu Isma'il), printed by ʿAlam al-Kutub in Riyadh (1405 AH / 1985 CE) .
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