Open Access“When the class goes on too long, the Devil takes part in it”: adab al-muḥaddith according to Ibn aṣ-Ṣalâḥ ash-Shahrazûrî (d. 643/1245)*
Author(s) -
J. Scheiner
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
revue du monde musulman et de la méditerranée/revue des mondes musulmans et de la méditerranée
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.132
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2105-2271
pISSN - 0997-1327
DOI - 10.4000/remmm.7164
Subject(s) - class (philosophy) , argument (complex analysis) , advice (programming) , philosophy , islam , epistemology , theology , computer science , chemistry , biochemistry , programming language
The two chapters in Ibn aṣ-Ṣalâḥʼs (d. 643/1245) Muqaddima on the proper behaviour of teachers and students of ḥadîth (adab al-muḥaddith) form the core of this study. Therein Ibn aṣ-Ṣalâḥ advices the muḥaddithûn how to conduct a class of ḥadîth. For the students he offers moral guidelines, recommends a particular curriculum and gives practical pedagogical advice. The search for possible precursors led to the main argument of this study, i.e. that Ibn aṣ-Ṣalâḥ used ʿAbd al-Karîm as-Samʿânîʼs (d. 562/1166) work Adab al-imlâʾ wa-ʼl-istimlâʾ as a direct source. Although Ibn aṣ-Ṣalâḥ modeled his Muqaddima after al-Ḥâkim an-Naysâbûrîʼs (d. 405/1014) Kitâb maʿrifat ʿulûm al-ḥadîth there are – quite unexpectedly – only minor similarities in both works regarding issues of adab al-muḥaddith. Taking the adab al-muftî or adab al-qâḍî literature as a model, the article finally argues that simultaneously with the canonization of ḥadîth, Muslim scholars, in particular al-Ḥâkim an-Naysâbûrî, proposed rules according to which ḥadîth had to be taught