Su'alat Ibn Abi Shayba li-Ibn al-Madini
- Author died
- 234 AH
- Editions
- Maktabat al-Ma‘ārif
Su'alat Ibn Abi Shayba li-Ibn al-Madini (The Questions of Ibn Abi Shayba to Ibn al-Madini) is a specialized compilation of hadith narrator criticism (al-jarh wa-l-ta'dil) transmitted from the Basran hadith critic Ali ibn al-Madini (161–234 AH / 778–849 CE) by his student Muhammad ibn Uthman ibn Abi Shayba (d. 297 AH) .
Scope and Content
The work belongs to the su'alat genre, in which students documented the verbal judgments and evaluations of leading hadith authorities regarding the reliability, trustworthiness, and weaknesses of transmitters . The text records the inquiries posed by Muhammad ibn Uthman ibn Abi Shayba to Ali ibn al-Madini concerning various narrators, comprising 260 biographical entries including repeated entries .
Publication
The work has been edited and published in modern scholarly editions, including:
- An edition edited by Muwaffaq ibn Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Qadir, published by Maktabat al-Ma'arif in Riyadh (1st ed., 1404 AH / 1984 CE) .
- An edition edited by Abu Umar Muhammad ibn Ali al-Azhari, published by Maktabat al-Faruq in Cairo (1st ed., 1426 AH / 1427 AH) .
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