Musnad Uqba ibn Amir
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- Musnad Uqba ibn Amir
Musnad Uqba ibn Amir (Musnad ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir) is a hadith compilation assembled by the Hanafi traditionist and jurist Ibn Qutlubugha (802–879 AH / 1400–1474 CE), devoted to gathering the narrations attributed to the Companion Uqba ibn Amir al-Juhani .
Background and Purpose
Ibn Qutlubugha compiled the work after burying his father and children adjacent to the shrine attributed to Uqba ibn Amir in Cairo . He composed the collection so that its hadiths could be recited at the tomb, emulating an established custom of reading scholarly transmissions and writings at the resting places of religious figures .
Content and Methodology
The work opens with a biographical profile of Uqba ibn Amir al-Juhani, citing Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's biographical dictionary al-Isabah fi Tamyiz al-Sahabah for his lineage and background . Ibn Qutlubugha notes that earlier scholars—such as Baqi ibn Makhlad, followed by Ibn Khuzaym and al-Nawawi—had enumerated Uqba's narrations at fifty-five hadiths, whereas he sought to assemble a broader collection beyond that figure .
Rather than merely quoting hadith texts from primary compendia, Ibn Qutlubugha links each report through his own transmission chains (asanid) reaching authoritative source works, including Musnad Ahmad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Sunan Ibn Majah, and the collections of al-Tabarani . For his transmission of Musnad Ahmad, he records multiple routes through his teachers, including Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Abd al-Rahman al-Yusufi, and the female scholar Aisha bint Ali al-Kinaniyyah .
Transmission and Related Parts
In manuscript collections, the Musnad is often accompanied by short treatises that Ibn Qutlubugha appended, containing biographical notices and elevated chains (awali) of other prominent figures buried in the Qarafa cemetery in Egypt, such as the mystic Dhu al-Nun al-Misri, the judge Bakkar ibn Qutaybah, the jurist Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi, and the hadith scholar Layth ibn Sa'd . Manuscript copies of the work are preserved in repositories such as the Al-Azhar Library in Cairo, the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, the Berlin State Library, and the Princeton University Library .
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