Tasmiyat man lam yarwi anhu ghayr rajul wahid
- Author died
- 303 AH
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- Dār al-Wa‘y
Tasmiyat man lam yarwi anhu ghayr rajul wahid (Naming Those from Whom No One Narrated Except a Single Man) is a short treatise on hadith narrator criticism by the hadith scholar al-Nasai (d. 303 AH / 915 CE), dedicated to identifying transmitters from whom only one individual is known to have narrated.
Scope and Subject Matter
The work belongs to the genre of hadith sciences concerning isolated narrators (al-wuhdan or al-munfaridat), which identifies transmitters who have only a single pupil on record. In the terminology of hadith scholars, such narrators are categorized as having unknown identity (majhul al-ayn) unless corroborated or otherwise known. Similar treatises on this topic were composed by other early authorities, notably Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj.
Transmission and Structure
The treatise has reached scholars through the transmission of al-Nasai's student Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Rashiq.
The text is concise and structured as a direct enumeration of narrators, specifying for each one the sole individual known to have transmitted from him. Al-Nasai frequently employs the standard phrasing: "we know of no one who narrated from him except [so-and-so]" (لَا نَعْلَمُ أَحَدًا رَوَى عَنْهُ غَيْرَ). Among the figures documented in the work are:
- Abu Nahshal, from whom none is known to have narrated except al-Mas'udi.
- Ali ibn Ali al-Kufi, transmitting from Ibrahim, from whom none is known to have narrated except Sharik (or al-Hasan ibn Salih in a variant transmission).
- Khalid ibn al-Fizr, from whom none is known except al-Hasan ibn Salih.
- Tariq ibn Ziyad, from whom none is known except Ibrahim ibn Abd al-A'la (or Ibrahim ibn Muhajir).
- Abu al-Za'ra', from whom none is known except Salama ibn Kuhayl.
- Hisham ibn Amr al-Fazari, from whom none is known except Hammad ibn Salama.
- Khalid ibn Ghallaq (or 'Ilaq), from whom none is known except al-Jurayri.
- 'Umayr ibn Ishaq, from whom none is known except Ibn 'Awn.
- Nubayh al-'Anazi, from whom none is known except al-Aswad ibn Qays.
- Shabib ibn Bashir, from whom none is known except Abu Asim.
- Thabit al-Zuraqi, Abu al-Ahwas, Abu Ukayma, and Abu 'Alqama, from whom none is known to have narrated except Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri.
- 'Isa ibn Jariya, from whom none is known except Ya'qub and 'Anbasa al-Razi.
- Bujayr ibn Abi Bujayr, from whom none is known except Isma'il ibn Umayya.
Publication
The work was edited by Mahmud Ibrahim Zayid and published in Aleppo by Dar al-Wa'y (1369 AH), as well as being included in collections of al-Nasai's treatises on hadith sciences.
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