A Morphological Analysis of the Sources of Ali ibn Babawayh from Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Attar in Al-Imamah wa al-Tabsirah min al-Hirah مقاله

چکیده:

Recognizing primary Hadith sources has multiple Hadith, bibliographic, and historical benefits. Indicators of deriving Hadith from written sources include paying attention to the correspondence of the chain of narration (isnad) with the paths of index authors to primary sources, the repetition of the chain of narration ending with the author of the book in Hadith sources, and the consistency of the subject of the narrations with the titles of the books. Ibn Babawayh in the book Al-Imamah wa al-Tabsirah min al-Hirah—which is the oldest existing Shia monograph on the subject of Imamate and Occultation—has narrated a total of 87 Hadiths, 23 of which he received directly from Muhammad ibn Yahya. The most probable sources used by Ibn Babawayh are the books: Al-Nawadir by Muhammad ibn Yahya, Al-Imamah by Muhammad ibn Ahmad, Al-Imamah by Yunus ibn Abd al-Rahman, and Al-Imamah wa Wasaya al-A'immah by Muhammad ibn Husayn ibn Abi al-Khattab. These narrators themselves have used books such as: Al-Tafsir by Ali ibn Asbat, Al-Nawadir by Abi Ayyub al-Khazzaz, Al-Mashyakha or Al-Nawadir by Ja'far ibn Bashir, Al-Nawadir by Abu Hamza al-Thumali, the book of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Jabbar, Al-Imamah wa al-Wasiyya by Ali ibn Ri'ab, Al-Nawadir or Al-Mashyakha by Hasan ibn Mahbub, Al-Imamah by Abdullah ibn Muskan, Al-Radd ala al-Waqifiyyah by Hasan ibn Musa al-Khashshab, Al-Bisharat, Al-Malahim or Al-Mathalib by Ali ibn Mahziyar, Al-Malahim, Al-Mathalib or Al-Nawadir by Safwan ibn Yahya, Al-Nawadir by Muhammad ibn Sinan, and Al-Imamah by Muhammad ibn Isa ibn Ubayd.