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The Transmission of Tirmidhī's Jāmi‘
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Abū ‘Īsā Muḥammad b. ‘Īsā b. Sawra b. Shaddād b. al-Ḍaḥḥāk al-Sulamī al-Būghī al-Tirmidhī is famous for bis collection of traditions which is one of the six books now generally recognized by Sunnīs. He is reported to have said that his grandfather belonged to Marw, but removed from there in the time of Al-Laith b. Sayyār to Tinnidh, a town on the north bank of the Āmū Daryā. Like many others Tirmidhī travelled in pursuit of learning, and heard traditions from numerous Khurāsānīs, ‘Irāqīs, and Ḥijāzīs. He was a pupil of Bukhārī, and also heard traditions from some of Bukhārī's shaikhs, such as Qutaiba b. Sa‘īd al-Baghlānī (d. 240), ‘Alī b. Ḥujr al-Marwazī (d. 244), Abū Kuraib Muḥammad b. al-‘Alā’ al-Kūfī (161–248), and Muḥammad b. Bashshār al-Baṣrī (167–252).4 An interesting story is told to illustrate his power of committing traditions to memory. On the way to Mecca he met a shaikh from whose traditions he had copied out two juz’.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 1954 , pp. 258 - 270
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page 261 note 8 Ṣila, No. 860.
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page 264 note 7 p. 2.
page 265 note 1 Ṣila, No. 1187.
page 265 note 2 Ṣila, No. 315; Dībāj, 104.
page 265 note 3 Ṣila, No. 860.
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page 266 note 2 It is interesting to find in this otherwise unknown chain one of the most distinguished names to appear in any of the transmissions of Tirmidhī's Jāmi‘. See GAL., Supp., 1, 628Google Scholar, where the reference to Dībāj should be 357 and not 301.
page 266 note 3 Ṣila, No. 876; Dībāj, 188 f.
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page 267 note 1 See p. 260.
page 267 note 2 See p. 263.
page 267 note 3 See p. 261.
page 267 note 4 See p. 265.
page 267 note 5 It has already been seen (p. 262) how this same passage was supplied by a chain of authorities tracing it to Tirmidhī through Haitham.
page 267 note 6 H. 3 (p. 6 f.), H. 4 (p. 20), and H. 5 (p. 44) give chains in which Kurūkhī quotes Azdī without indicating that anything was missing.
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