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Al-Daraqutni dictates the 'Ilal to al-Barqani at Ibn Hamdan's gatherings, about 360/971

الدارقطني يملي العلل على البرقاني في مجالس ابن حمدان، نحو ٣٦٠هـ

c. 970 CE · c. 360 AH

Baghdad

Abu Mansur Ibrahim ibn al-Hasan ibn Hamdan al-Sayrafi, a widely-heard scholar who wished to compile a mu'allal musnad, held a weekly day on which al-Daraqutni attended him; al-Daraqutni would give the defects of the hadiths against his own notebooks while Abu Bakr al-Barqani transferred them and al-Daraqutni dictated the 'ilal to him, until a great deal had come out of it. Abu Mansur died before it was finished, so al-Barqani transmitted al-Daraqutni's words — that is the Kitab al-'Ilal which people narrate from al-Daraqutni 1. Al-Barqani said: al-Daraqutni dictated the 'Ilal to me from memory; whoever would know what that means, let him read the Kitab al-'Ilal to learn what the huffaz were 2.

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Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq

In time

960970980 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

In space

Baghdad

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Summary

Abu Mansur Ibrahim ibn al-Hasan ibn Hamdan al-Sayrafi, a widely-heard scholar who wished to compile a mu'allal musnad, held a weekly day on which al-Daraqutni attended him; al-Daraqutni would give the defects of the hadiths against his own notebooks while Abu Bakr al-Barqani transferred them and al-Daraqutni dictated the 'ilal to him, until a great deal had come out of it 1.

How the Kitab al-'Ilal came out

Abu Mansur died before it was finished, so al-Barqani transmitted al-Daraqutni's words — that is the Kitab al-'Ilal which people narrate from al-Daraqutni 1. Al-Barqani said: al-Daraqutni dictated the 'Ilal to me from memory; whoever would know what that means, let him read the Kitab al-'Ilal to learn what the huffaz were 2.

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Had participant
Al-Daraqutni· Al-Barqani, Ahmad ibn Muhammad· Abu Mansur Ibrahim ibn Hamdan al-Sayrafi
Occurred at
Baghdad
During the reign of
al-Muti li-llah al-Fadl ibn al-Muqtadir

People and things also explored

Al-Daraqutni· Al-Hakim's journey to Iraq and the Hijaz, 341/952· Sunni-Shi'i Strife at Bab al-Taq in 348· Earthquakes and Locusts in Iraq in 347· The war of Nasir al-Dawla and Mu'izz al-Dawla for Baghdad (334-335 AH / 946)· Al-Daraqutni is born in Baghdad, Dhu al-Qa'da 306/918· Mu'izz al-Dawla builds the Dar al-Saltana in Baghdad· The Buyids enter Baghdad and receive their titles, 334 AH

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.183
  2. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p.103
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Al-Daraqutni

'Ali b. 'Umar Abu'l-Hasan al-Daraqutni (306–385), Baghdad's hafiz, singular of his age: the science of transmitted reports, narrators' names and the hidden defects of hadith ended with him; al-Hakim said al-Daraqutni never saw his own like. As a youth at Isma'il al-Saffar's circle he was rebuked for copying while listening — and recited back eighteen dictated hadiths, isnads and texts in order. The Kitab al-'Ilal current under his name was taken down by al-Barqani from his dictation at Abu Mansur b. Hamdan's gatherings. He died Tuesday 7 Dhu'l-Qa'da 385, buried at Maqbarat Ma'ruf.