Conceptional Analyzing of the Expression " Bi ʾIsnādin Munqatiʿin" regarding Muḥammad ibn ʿīsā ibn ʿUbayd's Narrations

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Sayyid Alireza Hoseini Shirazi ¹
• Mohammad Lotfipur ²

¹ High level Professor, Specialized Center of Hadith Studies, Seminary of Qom, Qom, Iran

² Level Three Graduate, Specialized Center of Hadith Studies, Seminary of Qom, Qom, Iran

10.22067/jquran.2023.82924.1545

Abstract

Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ibn Walīd is one of the effective scholars in the history of validating Shiʿa Hadiths. His excluding manner in examining Shiʾa narrations has been the subject of scholars' debate. The manner can be seen in the Rejal books under the entries of Muḥammad ibn Sanān, Muḥammad ibn Alī Abū Samīnah, Muḥammad ibn Uramah, and Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā. Most of these discussions are regarding his statements about the personality of Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā. Also, the most important of his sayings is where he excludes Muḥammad ibn ʿīsā ibn ʿUbayd's narrations and uses the expression of "bi ʾisnādin munqatiʿin" (through a disconnected Isnad) or " bi ʾisnādin munqatiʿin yatafarradu bih"(through a disconnected Isnad which is unique). In this study, by historical rereading of different views, the concept of the expression was analyzed. According to the results, the expression "bi ʾisnādin munqatiʿin" means a single or unique hadith. Also, for two reasons, Ibn Walīd hasn't accepted the responsibility of narrating Muḥammad ibn ʿīsā ibn ʿUbayd's unique hadiths from Yūnis ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; Firstly, both of them were from Baghdad. Secondly, they weren't supported by the available popular data in the hadith school of Kufa as the main center of Shiite cultural exchanges.

Keywords

• Ibn Walīd
• Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā
• Muḥammad ibn ʿīsā ibn ʿUbayd
• Bi ʾisnādin munqatiʿin
• Bi ʾisnādin munqatiʿin yatafarradu bih

Main Subjects

• Quran and Hadith Studies

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