Analyzing the Hadith of Bakr ibn Abdullah ibn Habib

Document Type : Research Article

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1 Assistant Professor in Quran and Hadith Studies, University of Tehran, Farabi College, Qum, Iran.

2 Ph.D student of Quran and Hadith Studies, University of Tehran, Farabi College, Qum, Iran

10.30497/qhs.2024.245688.3893

Abstract

Abū Muḥammad Bakr b. ‘Abdullāh b. Ḥabīb Al-Muzanī Al-Rāzī is one of the frequently mentioned transmitters in the books of Shaykh Ṣadūq Ibn Bābawayh. Despite the importance and effectiveness of his narrations, there is little information about him in rijāl books. In this article, we rely on the information that exists in his narrations to investigate his personal life, his denomination, narrators who have narrated from him, and his masters. Moreover, problems in his narrations such as shaky chains of transmission and their inconsistency with texts, content problems such as contradiction to valid texts, historical problems, parallel ascription, etc. are examined, and significant evidences are obtained against him, including document forging, Ḥadīth fabrication, change of original functions of narrations, etc. Tracking the dates of narrations, examining the chain of transmission patterns, and other evidences related to narration texts and chains of transmission augment the doubt that Bakr b. ‘Abdullāh b. Ḥabīb has had a big role in the final processing of some of these narrations.

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