Ramahurmuzi

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Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khallād al-Rāmahurmuzī
TitleJudge (Qāḍī)
Personal
BornUnknown
Diedbefore 971 CE/360 AH
ReligionIslam
RegionRām-hurmuz
CreedSunni
Main interest(s)Hadith, poetry
Notable work(s)al-Muḥaddith al-Fāṣil bayn al-Rāwī wa al-Wāʻī

Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khallād al-Rāmahurmuzī (

Persian hadith specialist and author who wrote one of the first comprehensive books compiled in hadith terminology literature, al-Muḥaddith al-Fāṣil bayn al-Rāwī wa al-Wāʻī.[2]

Biography

Al-Rāmahurmuzī's specific date of birth remains undetermined, but can be approximated based upon the dates of his teachers' deaths, placing his birth roughly 100 years prior to his own death.

Fārs between the Āb -i Kurdistān and the Gūpāl rivers.[3]

He first began his hadith studies in 903/290, hearing hadith from his father, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khallād, and Muḥammad ibn ʻAbdillāh al-Ḥaḍarī, Abū al-Ḥuṣayn al-Wādiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥibbān al-Māzinī and others from their generation.

science of hadith."[1]

His students include Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣaydāwī, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Layth al-Shīrāzī, Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Mardawayh, Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Nahāwandī and numerous others from the inhabitants of Persia.[1]

Al-Dhahabi said he was unable to find the date of Al-Rāmahurmuzī's death and speculated it to have been during the 350s AH, between 961 and 971 CE.[1] He then quoted Abū al-Qāsim ibn Mandah as mentioned in his work, al-Wafayāt, that Al-Rāmahurmuzī lived until almost 971/360 while living in the city of Rām-hurmuz.[1] The Encyclopaedia of Islam specified his death as occurring in 971/360.[2]

Works

Al-Rāmahurmuzī was a poet

al-Thaʻālabī.[2] Two of his works of prose remain until the present, both concerning the subject of hadith.[2]

  1. al-Muḥaddith al-Fāṣil bayn al-Rāwī wa al-Wāʻī
    isnād going back to Al-Rāmahurmuzī.[5]
  2. Amthāl al-Nabī[1]—a collection of about 140 proverbs in the form of hadiths which has been printed in two editions. The first was edited by Amatulkarim Qureshi in Hyderabad, 1968 and the second by M. M. al-ʻAthamī in Bombay, 1983.[2]
  3. Rabīʻ al-Mutayyim fī Akhbār al-ʻAshshāq[5]
  4. al-Nawādir[5]
  5. Risālah al-Safr[5]
  6. al-Ruqā wa al-Taʻāzī[5]
  7. Adab al-Nāṭiq[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i al-Dhahabi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad (1957). al-Mu`allimi (ed.). Tadhkirah al-Huffaz (in Arabic). Vol. 3. Hyderabad: Dairah al-Ma`arif al-`Uthmaniyyah. pp. 905–6.
  2. ^
    ISBN 90-04-09813-5
    .
  3. ISBN 90-04-09813-5
    .
  4. ^ a b c al-`Asqalani, Ahmad ibn `Ali. `Ali al-Halabi (ed.). Nuzhah al-Nathr (in Arabic) (sixth ed.). Dammam: Dar ibn al-Jawzi. p. 45.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g al-Dhahabi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad (2001). Shu`ayb al-Arnaout (ed.). Siyar 'Alam al-Nubula (in Arabic). Vol. 17 (11 ed.). Beirut: Muassasah al-Risalah. pp. 73–4.
  6. ^ a b al-Qari, `Ali ibn Sultan (n.d.). Muhammad; Haytham Nizar Tamim (eds.). Sharh Sharh Nukhbah al-Fikr (in Arabic). Beirut: Dar al-Arqam. p. 137.
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