Tasmiyat man ruwiya anhu min awlad al-ashara
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- 234 AH
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Tasmiyat man ruwiya anhu min awlad al-ashara (Naming Those from the Offspring of the Ten from Whom Hadith Was Transmitted) is an early biographical work of hadith narrator identification (rijal) by the hadith scholar Ali ibn al-Madini (161–234 AH / 778–849 CE) . The text focuses on classifying narrators among the descendants of the early Companions, narrators who shared Companionship alongside their fathers, and transmitting siblings .
Scope and Structure
The book is organized into several thematic chapters (abwab):
- Offspring of the Ten and Other Companions: The first section lists the narrating offspring, children, and grandchildren of the ten promised Paradise, beginning with the sons and descendants of Fatima bint Rasul Allah, followed by the descendants of Abu Bakr, Umar ibn al-Khattab, and the remainder of the ten, extending to the progeny of other Companions and concluding with the offspring of al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib .
- Companions Who Transmitted Alongside Their Sons: The second section enumerates Companions who shared Companionship with their sons and transmitted hadith, opening with Abu Bakr and concluding with Sa'd ibn Khaythama .
- Transmitting Siblings: The third section catalogs sets of brothers who narrated hadith, beginning with Ali, Ja'far, and Aqil, the sons of Abu Talib; this chapter is the largest in the book and comprises roughly half its contents .
- Shared Names and Supplementary Material: Subsequent sections group narrators sharing specific given names, including Hisham, Salim, Qays, Ma'bad, al-Mughira, Muslim, Iyas, al-Ash'ath, Wahb, Yunus, and Ayyub, followed by a chapter on the teachers of Mis'ar whom Shu'ba did not meet . The work also includes queries posed to Ali ibn al-Madini regarding specific names and kunyas, remarks by Yahya ibn Ma'in concerning narrators connected to the section on siblings, and isolated narrations transmitted with isnads by Hanbal ibn Ishaq .
Transmission and Reception
The book was transmitted from Ali ibn al-Madini by Hanbal ibn Ishaq (d. 273 AH), from whom it was related by Ibn al-Sammak (Uthman ibn Ahmad al-Daqqaq) . Hanbal reported that his uncle Ahmad ibn Hanbal examined the text and expressed astonishment at Ali ibn al-Madini's mastery and extraction of these names . It was among the titles carried to Damascus by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi .
Manuscripts and Editions
A manuscript copy is preserved in the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus within a collective volume bearing transmission notes (balaghat) down to 606 AH . Manuscript title variants include Kitab tasmiyat man ruwiya anhu min awlad al-ashara wa-ghayrihim min ashab Rasul Allah and Tasmiyat man yurwa anhu min awlad al-ashara wa-ghayr dhalik min Kitab al-Ma'rifa .
The work has been edited by Ali Muhammad Jammaz (Dar al-Qalam, Kuwait, 1402 AH / 1982 CE) . It was also edited by Basim Faysal al-Jawabira alongside Abu Dawud al-Sijistani's treatise on sibling narrators in a combined volume titled al-Ruwat min al-ikhwa wa-l-akhawat .
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