Several Traditional Accounts on the Scholarly Life of the Imami Scholar and Litterateur Ṣafī al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Ridhā al-‘Alawī
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10.22081/jap.2024.76695
Abstract
Muhammad ibn Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Ridhā al-‘Alawī (656-735 AH) was an eminent Imami scholar and litterateur, hailing from a distinguished family of descendants of ‘Umar al-Aṭrāf who resided in the "Nayl" region of Hilla, Iraq. It appears that his formative scholarly years were primarily spent in Hilla. He granted four specific authorizations (ijazahs) for transmitting works such as Asrār al-‘Arabīyyah, Gharīb al-Quran, Nahj al-Balāgha, and Maqāmāt Ḥarīrī, along with a general authorization to his nephew and student Muhammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ma’ālī. The article presents the texts of these four ijazahs based on his original manuscript. A new piece of information about him is his reading of a manuscript of Maqāmāt Ḥarīrī is evident from his authorization given to Ibn Abī al-Ma’ālī and his certification of two significant existing manuscripts of Nahj al-Balāgha, one of which is previously unknown. Additionally, a commentary attributed to him with a philological, theological, and historical approach on Ibn Abi al-Hadid's Qasā'id al-Sab’ al-Alawiyyāt has survived.
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