Al-Darimi

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Faḍl ibn Bahrām ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Dārimī al-Tamīmī al-Samarqandī (Arabic: أبو محمد عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن بن الفضّل بن بهرام بن عبد الصمد الدارمي التميمي السمرقندي) (181–255 AH / 797–869 CE) was a Muslim scholar and Imam of Arab ancestry.[6] His best known work is Sunan al-Darimi, a book collection of hadith.[7]

Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Darimi
أبو محمد عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن الدارمي
Personal
Born181 AH (797 CE)
Samarkand
Died255 AH (869 CE)
Muscat
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic Golden Age
RegionAbbasid Caliphate
DenominationSunni[1]
JurisprudenceShafi'i
CreedAthari[2][3][4][5]
Main interest(s)Hadith studies
Notable work(s) Sunan al-Darimi
OccupationMuhaddith, Hadith compiler, Islamic scholar

Biography

Imam Darimi, came from the family tribe of Banu Darim ibn Malik ibn Hanzala ibn Zayd ibn Manah ibn Tamim or Banu Tamim the Arab tribe.[8] He is also known as Imam Tamimi, in relation to Tamim ibn Murrah, who was amongst the ancestor of Banu Darim.[9]

As stated by Darimi "I was born on the same year in which Imam Abd Allah ibn Mubarak had died. And Abd Allah ibn Mubarak died in 181 AH"[10]

ِAl-Darimi transmitted hadiths from Yazid ibn Harun, Abd Allah ibn Awn, and others. A number of scholars transmitted hadiths from him, including Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, Abu Dawud al-Sijistani, Al-Tirmidhi, and Abu Zurʽa al-Razi.

Works
  • Sunan al-Darimi - Some from among his collections of the Prophet Muhammad's ahadith.
  • Tafsir al-Darimi - Imam Dhahabi mentioned the work in Siyar A'lam al-Nubala[11] Not extant
  • Al-Jami'a - Khatib al-Baghdadi has mentioned this in his Ta'rikh al-Baghdad.[12]

See also

References
  1. Dhahabi, Imam. Siyar 'Alam al-Nubala [ed. Shu'ayb al-Arnaut]. Vol. 17. p. 558.
  2. Schmidtke, Sabine; Abrahamov, Binyamin (2014). "Scripturalist and Traditionalist Theology". The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-0-19-969670-3.
  3. Abrahamov, Binyamin (1998). "Chapter 1: The Foundations of Traditionalism". Islamic Theology: Traditionalism and Rationalism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-7486-1102-9.
  4. El Shamsy, Ahmed (2007). "The First Shāfiʿī: The Traditionalist Legal Thought of Abū Yaʿqūb al-buwayṭī (d. 231/846)". Islamic Law and Society. Brill Publishers. 14 (3): 324–325 – via JSTOR.
  5. Namira Nahouza (April 2009). "Chapter 3: Contemporary perceptions of the Salaf- the Wahhabi case". Contemporary Wahhabism rebranded as Salafism: the issue of interpreting the Qur’anic verses and hadith on the Attributes of God and its significance. University of Exeter. p. 97.
  6. Brown, Jonathan A. C. (2012-12-01). "al-Dārimī". Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE.
  7. Studia Orientalia. The Society. 2006. ISBN 978-951-9380-66-7.
  8. (Lubbul Lubaab – Volume 1 – Page 308)
  9. (Al Ansaab – Volume 1 – Page 478)
  10. (Tahzibul Kamaal – Volume 15 – Page 216)
  11. (Sir A'lam al-Nubala - Volume 12 - Page 228)
  12. (Ta'rikh al-Baghdad - Volume 10 - Page 29)
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