Hakim al-Nishaburi

Abu Abd-Allah Muhammad ibn Abd-Allah al-Hakim al-Nishapuri ( fa, أبو عبدالله محمد بن عبدالله الحاكم النيسابوري; 933 - 1014 CE), also known as ''Ibn al-Bayyiʿ'', was a Persian Sunni scholar and the leading traditionist of his age, frequently referred to as the "Imam of the Muhaddithin" or the "Muhaddith of Khorasan."

Biography

Al-Hakim, from Nishapur, had vast numbers of teachers in Khurasan, Iraq, Transoxiana and elsewhere. His students included al-Bayhaqi.

Al-Hakim wrote ''Al-Mustadrak ala al-Sahihayn''. He started writing it in the year when he was 72 years old. He reputedly said: "I drank water from Zamzam Well and asked God for excellence in writing books".

Death

On the 3rd of Safar 405 al-Hakim went into the bath, came out after bathing, said, "Ah," and died wearing but a waist-cloth before he had time to put on a shirt. Later, one of al-Hakim's students, Al-Hasan ibn Ash`ath al-Qurashî said: "I saw al-Hâkim in my dream riding a horse in a handsome appearance and saying: 'Salvation.' I asked him: `Al-Hakim! In what?' He replied: 'Writing hadith.'" His funeral prayer was led by Abu Bakr al-Hiri, Qadi (judge) of Nishapur.

Legacy

Shah Waliullah stated that:

The Shafi'i hadith specialist Ibn al-Salah honours al-Hakim as one of the 'seven compilers of useful compilations' who has the distinction of being one of the few men to have compiled significant works in all three genres of hadith literature.

The Shafi'i historian al-Dhahabi calls him "the great hafiz and imam of the traditionists".

Despite this, he had been accused of being a Shi'a, but al-Subki stoutly denies this. He rejects the label of Shi`i as baseless because Ibn Asakir includes al-Hakim among the Asharis, who consider the Shias as innovators. Others noted to al-Hakim's sincerity in narrating hadith as the first hadith al-Hâkim narrated is:
:May Allah make radiant the face of one who heard one of my sayings and then carried it to others. It may be that one carries understanding without being a person of understanding; it may be that one carries understanding to someone who possesses more understanding than he.

Works

He authored the following works among others:
* ''Al-Abwâb'' ("The Chapters")
* ''Al-Amâlî'' ("The Dictations")
* ''Amâlî al-`Ashiyyât'' ("Night Dictations")
* ''Fadâ'il al-Shâfi`î'' ("The Immense Merits of al-Shâfi`î")
* ''Fawâ'id al-Nusakh'' ("Benefits of the Copies")
* ''Fawâ'id al-Khurâsâniyyîn'' ("Benefits of the People of Khurâsân")
* ''Al-Iklîl fî Dalâ'il al-Nubuwwa'' ("The Diadem: The Marks of Prophethood")
* ''Al-`Ilal'' ("The Defects of Hadîth")
* ''Mâ Tafarrada bi Ikhrâjihi Kullu Wâhidin min al-Imâmayn'' ("Reports Found Only in al-Bukhârî or Only in Muslim")
* ''Al-Madkhal ilâ `Ilm al-Sahîh'' ("Introduction to the Science of Sound Reports")
* ''Ma`rifat Anwâ` `Ulûm al-Hadîth'' ("Knowledge of the Different Types of the Hadîth Sciences")
* ''Al-Mustadrak `alâ al-Sahîhayn'' ("Supplement for What is Missing From al-Bukhârî and Muslim")
* ''Muzakkâ al-Akhbâr'' ("Verified Reports")
* ''Al-Sahîhân'' ("The Two Books of sahîh Hadîths")
* ''Al-Talkhîs'' ("The Summary")
* ''Tarâjim al-Musnad `alâ Shart al-Sahîhayn'' ("The Reports of Ahmad's Musnad That Match the Criteria of the Two Books of Sahîh")
* ''Tarâjim al-Shuyûkh'' ("Biographies of the Shaykhs")
* ''Târîkh `Ulamâ' Ahl Naysabûr'' ("History of the Scholars of Naysabûr")

See also

*Islamic scholars
*Hakim (title)
*Mujaddid

References

External links

Al-Hakim al-Naysaburi by G.F. Haddad

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Shafi'is
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Persian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
Hadith scholars
People from Nishapur
10th-century Iranian historians
Mujaddid
Muhaddiths from Nishapur
Biographical evaluation scholars
11th-century Iranian historians
10th-century jurists
11th-century jurists
933 births
1014 deaths
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