چکیده:
A small fragment of papyrus contains a tradition ascribed to ʿUmar b.
al-Khaṭṭāb (d. 23/644) also known from literary sources, albeit with some variations
in the text and transmission history. Written on the re-used back of an
official text, it will be used to discuss how such traditions might have functioned
in the written culture of the early Abbasid Empire.
خلاصه ماشینی:
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1) 2) ……………[……………………………………………Suwayd ibn 3) ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz on the authority of Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd on the authority of Muḥam- mad ibn Ibrāhīm on the authority of Abū Salama that ʿUmar ibn 4) al-Khaṭṭāb prayed the evening prayer without reciting.
167/783–4 or 194/809–10) is the only ḥadīth transmitter whose name and dates fit the context of the papyrus and who is reported in the biographical dictionaries to have transmitted on the authority of Yaḥyā b.
²² The account transmitted in Kitāb al-Umm reads: anna ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ṣallā bi-l-nās al-mahgrib fa-lam yaqra ʾ fīhā fa-lammā inṣarafa qīla lahu mā qara ʾta qāla fa-kayfa kāna al-rukūʿ wa-l-sujūd qālū ḥasanan qāla fa-lā ba ʾs.
³³ Most literary fragments of ḥadīths and other literary texts preserved on papyrus edited by Nabia Abbott were dated by her to the early third/ninth century.
39 Schoeler, The Oral and Written, (2006) 113, 116–7 40 Schoeler argues that ḥadīth recitation exclusively based on memory was abandoned when Brought to you by | New York University Bobst Library Technical Services Authenticated Download Date | 2/21/16 5:24 PM could be consulted, there would have been countless occasions on which selec- tions or individual accounts were recorded on a piece of papyrus such as this one.