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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
The collections of Tradition compiled by Al-Bukhārī and Muslim are considered to be more authoritative than any other. Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ says: “Their books are the soundest after the mighty Book of God.” Most Muslims consider Al-Bukhārī's Ṣaḥīḥ to be the more authoritative of the two, but there have been some who have expressed a preference for Muslim's. Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusain b. 'Alī al-Naisābūrī is quoted as saying: “There is no book under the face of heaven sounder than the book of Muslim b. al-Ḥajjāj.” Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ says that if this merely means that Muslim did not imitate Al-Bukhārī in giving statements in his headings unaccompanied by an isnād, there is no harm; but if it means that the book itself is sounder, it is to be refuted. Al-Nawawī remarks that Muslim's Ṣaḥīḥ has an advantage over Al-Bukhārī's because he gives all the lines of transmission when he mentions a tradition, whereas Al-Bukhārī repeats traditions in different places, sometimes giving one line of transmission and sometimes another. Al-Dhahabī quotes Ibn 'Uqda to the effect that Al-Bukhārī sometimes makes the mistake of mentioning a man on one occasion by his name and on another by his kunya and imagining that there are two men, whereas Muslim rarely makes an error. But Al-Dhahabī shows that he himself considers Al-Bukhārī to be superior, for after mentioning the words of Abū 'Ali al-Naisābūrī quoted above, he remarks laconically: “Perhaps Al-Bukhārī's Ṣaḥīḥ had not reached Abū 'Alī.” In addition to Abū 'Alī, some shaikhs of the Maghrib are said to have preferred Muslim; but the general view is that, while the two are of the highest authority, Al-Bukhārī's Ṣaḥīḥ takes first place.
page 46 note 1 'Ulūm al-hadīth, p. 13.
page 46 note 2 Ibid., p. 14.
page 46 note 3 Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, i, p. 10.
page 46 note 4 Tadhkirat al-ḥuffāẓ, ii, 151.
page 46 note 5 Cf. Ḥājjī Khalīfa, ii, 512 ff., 541 ff.
page 46 note 6 MS. No. dciii, Biblioteca National de Madrid.
page 47 note 1 See Dhahabī, , Tadh., iv, 250 ff.Google Scholar; Encyc. of Islām, iii, 884 f.
page 47 note 2 Sharḥ, i, p. 9.
page 47 note 3 Dhahabī, , Tadh., iv, 154 f.Google Scholar; Al-Ḍabbī, Bughyat al-multamis, No. 112; Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya, No. 2998.
page 47 note 4 See JRAS., 1935, 341 f.
page 48 note 1 Not to be confused with the man of the same name mentioned in Brockelmann, , GAL., Supp. i, 626Google Scholar.
page 48 note 2 Al-Tinbuktī, , Nail al-ibtihāj (in margin of Ibn Farḥūn, Al-dībāj al-mudhahhab), p. 63Google Scholar; cf. Analectes sur l'histoire et la littérature des arabes d'Espagne, par Al-Makkari, i, 484, 901; cf. Ibn al-Abbār, Takmila, No. 1120.
page 48 note 3 Dhahabī, , Tadh., iv, 158 ff.Google Scholar; Tinbuktī, , Nail, 135 f.Google Scholar; Takmila, No. 1416.
page 48 note 4 Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, op. cit., 151 ff.
page 49 note 1 Ibid., 160 ff.
page 49 note 2 Ibid., 168. A fuller account of the whole subject is given by Al-Nawawī, in “Le Taqrîb de En Nawawi”, Journal Asiatique, série ix, vol. 17, 195 ff.Google Scholar; cf. Goldziher, , Muh. Stud., ii, 188 ff.Google Scholar
page 49 note 3 p. 550.
page 49 note 4 Tadh., ii, 150.
page 49 note 5 Tahdhīb al-tahdhīb, x, 126.
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page 50 note 1 Sharḥ, i, p. 8.
page 50 note 2 Sharḥ, i, 6 f.; Sam'ānī, , Ansāb, 133aGoogle Scholar.
page 50 note 3 Sharḥ, i, 6.
page 50 note 4 Fihrisa, 100.
page 50 note 5 viii, 236.
page 51 note 1 Sharḥ, i, 5.
page 51 note 2 Ibid., Yāqūt, Geogr. Wörterb., iii, 866 f.
page 51 note 3 Sharḥ, i, 5 f.; Geogr. Wörterb., iii, 866.
page 51 note 4 Ibn Bashkuwāl, Ṣila, No. 1181; Dhahabī, , Tadh., iv, 86 ff.Google Scholar; Makkari, i, 477 ff.
page 51 note 5 Takmila, No. 2146.
page 51 note 6 Ṣila, No. 970.
page 51 note 7 Ibid., No. 750
page 51 note 8 Ṣila, No. 1181; Ḥ. Kh., vii, 561; Makkari, i, 478.
page 51 note 9 Cf. Geogr. Wörterb., ii, 936, iv, 800.
page 51 note 10 Ṣila, No. 1285; Ḍabbī, Bughyat, No. 1392; Geogr. Wörterb., i, 880.
page 51 note 11 The use of this word properly indicates personal contact. See al-Ṣalāḥ, Ibn, 'Ulūm, 140 f.Google Scholar; Tahānawī, , Dict. of Tech. Terms, 282Google Scholar.
page 51 note 12 Tinbuktī, , Nail, 352Google Scholar.
page 52 note 1 Cf. Ibn Khali. (De Slane), ii, 353.
page 52 note 2 Geogr. Wörterb., ii, 241.
page 52 note 3 Dhahabī, , Tadh., iv, 90 ff.Google Scholar; Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat, No. 472.
page 52 note 4 Ḍabbī, No. 1470; Takmila, No. 2040; Ghāyat, No. 3836.
page 52 note 5 Ṣila, No. 1403; Ḍabbī, No. 1500; Ibn al-Abbār, Mu'jam, No. 313.
page 52 note 6 Ṣila, No. 1102; cf. Ghāyat, No. 3405.
page 52 note 7 Ṣila, No. 601; cf. Ḍabbī, No. 958.
page 52 note 8 Ṣila, No. 1180.
page 52 note 9 Ṣila, No. 326; Dhahabī, , Tadh., iv, 30 ff.Google Scholar
page 52 note 10 Ṣila, No. 139; Geogr. Wörterb., ii, 582 f.
page 53 note 1 Ṣila, No. 1158.
page 53 note 2 Ṣila, No. 1159; Ḍabbī, No. 205; Mu'jam, No. 100.
page 53 note 3 Ṣila, No. 351; Ḍabbī, No. 658.
page 53 note 4 Cf. Tahānawī, p. 282.
page 53 note 5 Ṣila, No. 744; Ḍabbī, No. 986; Farḥūn, Ibn, Al-dībāj al-mudhahhab, p. 150Google Scholar.
page 53 note 6 Ṣila, No. 593, where Shantajyālī is the form given; Ḍabbī, No. 925, where Al-'Udhrī and Al-Ṭarābulusī are both said to have transmitted from him; cf. Geogr. Wörterb., iii, 327; Dībāj, p. 140.
page 53 note 7 Ṣila, No. 773; Ḍabbī, No. 1079; Mu'jam, No. 233.
page 54 note 1 Sharḥ, i, p. 7.
page 54 note 2 Dhahabī, , Mīzān al-i'tidāl, ii, 337Google Scholar, says he transmitted Muslim's Ṣaḥīḥ from Ibn Sufyān; but his presence in such a work suggests that his authority is doubtful.
page 54 note 3 Lisān al-mīzān, v, 26 f.
page 54 note 4 Ansāb, 482b.
page 54 note 5 Fihrisa, p. 100.
page 54 note 6 Ghāyat, No. 531.
page 55 note 1 Ṣila, No. 1276; Ghāyat, No. 3645.
page 55 note 2 Ṣila, No. 178; Geogr. Wörterb., i, 663, where Al-Biṭraushī is given.
page 55 note 3 Ḍabbī, No. 1470; Mu'jam, No. 302; Takmila, No. 2040; Ghāyat, No. 3836.
page 55 note 4 Ṣila, No. 1174; Takmila, No. 622.
page 55 note 5 Ṣila, No. 1123; Ḍabbī, No. 256; Geogr. Wörterb., i, 663, etc.
page 55 note 6 Ṣila, No. 294; cf. Ḍabbī, No. 617.
page 55 note 7 Ṣila, No. 1093.
page 55 note 8 Ṣila, 771; cf. Ḍabbī, No. 1068.
page 56 note 1 Ṣila, No. 1326; Ḍabbī, No. 1425; Dībāj, p. 348.
page 56 note 2 Ṣila, No. 1107; cf. Ḍabbī, No. 103; Geogr. Wörterb., iii, 924.
page 56 note 3 Ṣila, No. 873; Dhahabī, , Tadh., iii, 298 ff.Google Scholar; cf. Ḍabbī, No. 1185; Ḥ. Kh., ii, 209, etc.
page 56 note 4 Sharḥ, i, p. 8.
page 56 note 5 Fihrisa, p. 101.
page 56 note 6 al-Najjār, Ibn, Dhail Ta'rikh Baghdād, x, 67Google Scholar. I am indebted to Khalīl Mardam Bey who copied out for me from this work the notice on Ibn Māhān. al-Suyūtī, Jalāl al-Dīn, Ḥusn al-muḥāḍara, i, 157Google Scholar, says Ibn Māhān died in 388.
page 56 note 7 Cf. Fihrisa, p. 102.
page 57 note 1 Sharḥ, i, p. 8; Fihrisa, p. 101; Imtā', f. 8ab.
page 57 note 2 Ibn al-Faraḍī, Ta'rīkh ‘ulamā’ al-Andalus, No. 1678.
page 57 note 3 Ṣila, No. 131; cf. Ḍabbī, No. 349.
page 57 note 4 Ḍabbī, No. 87.
page 57 note 5 Ṣila, No. 1173.
page 57 note 6 Makkari, i, p. 603; Faraḍī, No. 1718.
page 58 note 1 Ṣila, No. 774.
page 58 note 2 Takmila, No. 491.
page 58 note 3 Ṣila, No. 622.
page 58 note 4 Cf. Fihrisa, p. 435.
page 58 note 5 Ṣila, No. 1259.
page 58 note 6 Ṣila, No. 825; Geogr. Wörterb., ii, 620; GAL., Supp., i, 732.
page 58 note 7 Ṣila, No. 822; Ḍabbī, No. 1125; Geogr. Wörterb., iv. 875.
page 59 note 1 Ṣila, No. 41.
page 59 note 2 Ṣila, No. 1077; cf. Ḍabbī, No. 241.
page 60 note 1 Al-Nawawī is proud of the fact that only six names appear in the chain between himself and Muslim. He notes that all the transmitters were long-lived and were connected with Naisābūr (Sharḥ, i, p. 6).
page 60 note 2 Ṣila, No. 744.
page 60 note 3 Ibid., No. 593.
page 60 note 4 'Ulūm al-ḥadīth, p. 139. When discussing ijāza (p. 156), he mentions that it has been considered allowable to grant it to someone and to those who will be born to him; or to him and his son and his descendants.