Burayd ibn Mu'awiya al-'Ijli( ar, بُرَیدِ بْن‌ معاویة العجلی) (before 148 AH / 765 AD) was a Shi'a jurists and a famous disciple of

Muhammad al-Baqir Muḥammad al-Bāqir ( ar, مُحَمَّد ٱلْبَاقِر), with the full name Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, also known as Abū Jaʿfar or simply al-Bāqir () was the fifth Imam in Shia Islam, succee ...

and later

Ja'far al-Sadiq Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣādiq ( ar, جعفر بن محمد الصادق; 702 – 765 CE), commonly known as Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (), was an 8th-century Shia Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian.. He was the founder of th ...

. His name is included in the

Consensus companions The consensus companions or "As'hab al-Ijma'" ('' ar, اصحاب الاجماع'') are eighteen Muhaddith and Islamic scholars who had direct contact with Shia Imams and had great knowledge of religion. Shia scholars accept unquestioningly every ha ...

and was praised by al-Baqir and al-Sadiq.

Life

Burayd's father, Mu'awiya ibn Abi Hakim Hatim, was from a family of 'Ijli Arabs who immigrated to

Kufa Kufa ( ar, الْكُوفَة ), also spelled Kufah, is a city in Iraq, about south of Baghdad, and northeast of Najaf. It is located on the banks of the Euphrates River. The estimated population in 2003 was 110,000. Currently, Kufa and Najaf ...

. He started to study knowledge in his homeland. At the beginning he learned hadith from the Sunni sheikhs among them Abu Ishaq Ismail ibn Raja Zabeidi. At the beginning of the 2nd century, Burayd apparently had a trip or trips to

Medina Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the Holiest sites in Islam, second-holiest city in Islam, ...

, and there he took advantage of al-Baqir's study group and was considered one of his special companions. After the death of

, he benefited from the presence of

for some time in Medina and became one of his special companions too. Among the children of Barid, Qasim and Musa were narrators and authors of Imamiyyah. Burayd died in 150 AH according to the narration of Ali Ibn Faddal, but

Najashi Armah ( gez, አርማህ) or Aṣḥamah ( ar, أَصْحَمَة), commonly known as Najashi ( ar, النَّجَاشِيّ, translit=An-najāshī), was the ruler of the Kingdom of Aksum who reigned from 614–631 CE. He is primarily known th ...

considered his death during the lifetime of al-Sadiq to be more correct.

Position

He became a key authority in the Shia jurisprudence ( ) and one of the Companions of al-Baqir and al-Sadiq, and therefore, his name is included in the

. Al-Baqir praised him (along with Abu Basir Moradi, Muhammad bin Muslim, and Zurarah ibn A'yun) as worthy of the paradise. Also al-Sadiq lauded him (along with the other three mentioned above) for upholding and promoting the Imami Madhhab, Al-Sadiq also said that the prophetic

hadith Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...

s would have been lost without them.

Contributions

Many narrators have learned from Burayd, among them famous names such as Hariz ibn 'Abd Allah al-Sijistani, Aban ibn Uthman, Hammad ibn Uthman, Yahya Halabi, Durust ibn Abi Mansur, Tha'laba ibn Maymun, Jamil ibn Saleh, Hisham ibn Salim al-Jawaliqi, Yunus ibn Abd al-Rahman,

Safwan ibn Yahya Safwan bin Yahya al-Bajali is one of the companions of three Shia Imam, Muhammad al-Jawad, Ali al-Ridha and Musa al-Kadhim. Shaykh Tusi and Ahmad ibn Ali al-Najashi describe him as one of the most reliable and authentic narrators of Hadiths. It is s ...

Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr are seen. Among the Sunnis, Ahmad bin Hamad Hamadani also narrated from him. Najashi has mentioned that there was a book by Burayd, narrated by Ali bin Uqbah Asadi, of which Ibn al-Ghadāʾirī (ابن الغضائري) had seen a copy (p. 112); However, this book has not been known in most of the Imami circles. Dozens of

s quoted by Burayd have been recorded in

Imamiyyah Twelver Shīʿīsm ( ar, ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة; '), also known as Imāmīyyah ( ar, إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa Islam, comprising about 85 percent of all Shīʿa Muslims. The term ''Twelver'' refers t ...

narrative sources, including

The Four Books ''The Four Books'' ( ar-at, ٱلْكُتُب ٱلْأَرْبَعَة, '), or ''The Four Principles'' (''al-Uṣūl al-Arbaʿah''), is a Twelver Shia term referring to their four best-known ''hadith'' collections: Most Shi'a Muslims use d ...

Notes

References

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