Religion:The Great History
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| Author | Muhammad al-Bukhari |
|---|---|
| Original title | al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr |
| Language | Arabic |
| Genre | Biographical evaluation |
| Published | Da'rah al-Ma‘arif al- ‘Uthmaniyyah |
The Great History (Template:Lang-ar-at) is a book by ninth-century Islamic scholar Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari in the field of biographical evaluation.[1]
Overview
In this work, Bukhari does not focus on the full names or biographies of those who narrated hadith but instead tries to focus on their place within the extensive network of hadith transmission.[2] A typical biographical entry is as follows;[3]
Ad'ham al-Sadusi, Abui Bishr. Hajjaj al-Aʿwar quoted Shuʿbah, "He was client to Shaqiq ibn Thawr." He heard ʿAbd Allah ibn Buraydah. There related (hadith) from him Shucbah and Hushaym. His hadith is among the Basrans.
According to Firabri, Bukhari composed this text as a young man in Mecca, long before composing his Sahih. Several manuscripts of the text are known from the 9th century, and the tradition is known through the transmission of Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Sahl ibn ʿAbl Allāh, a reciter and grammarian of the Quran from Basra, who is only known for his transmission of his text.[3] Extant manuscripts of this text contain biographies of 12,300 individuals, none of whom are women. However, Al-Ḥākim claims that according to Abū ʿAlī al-Husayn al-Māsarjisī, the text (conceivably an original form of it) contained roughly 40,000 biographical entries of both men and women.[2]
Bukhari also authored two other books of history, al-Tarikh al-Awsat (The Medium History) and al-Tarikh al-Saghir (The Small History).[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Al-Kattani, Muhammad ibn Ja‘far; Al-Risalah al-Mustatrafah, pg. 128–9, (Beirut: Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah); seventh edition, 2007.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Brown, Jonathan A. C. (2007). The canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim: the formation and function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth canon. Islamic History and Civilization. Leiden: Brill. pp. 68, cf. n. 64. ISBN 978-90-04-15839-9.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Melchert, Christopher (2001). "Bukhārī and Early Hadith Criticism". Journal of the American Oriental Society 121 (1): 8-12. doi:10.2307/606725. ISSN 0003-0279. https://www.jstor.org/stable/606725.
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