'Inayat Allah Quhpayi
| Personal Information | |
|---|---|
| Full Name | 'Inayat Allah b. 'Ali Quhpayi Najafi Isfihani |
| Well-Known As | al-Zaki al-Najafi |
| Studied in | Najaf |
| Death | after 1026/1617-8 |
| Scholarly Information | |
| Professors | al-Muqaddas al-Ardabili • al-Shaykh al-Baha'i • Shushtari al-Isfahani |
ʿInāyat Allāh Quhpāyī (Arabic: عنایتالله قُهْپایی) (d. after 1026/1617-8) was a Shiite scholar of rijal (knowledge of reliability or unreliability of hadith transmitters) in the eleventh/seventeenth century and the author of Majma' al-rijal, a well-known book on rijal.[1] In that book, he makes an alphabetic order of the hadith transmitters mentioned in the five books of Shiite rijal (Rijal al-Kashshi, Rijal al-Tusi, al-Fihrist by al-Tursi, Rijal al-Najashi, and Rijal Ibn al-Ghada'iri), supplemented by additional transmitters who were not mentioned in those books.[2]
Before he wrote Majma' al-rijal, 'Inayat Allah Quhpayi had organized each of the five books of Shiite rijal, except Rijal Ibn al-Ghada'iri, into alphabetic order and added comments on them.[3] Moreover, he wrote commentaries on Manhaj al-maqal by Muhammad Istarabadi and Naqd al-rijal by Mustafa Tafrishi.[4]
'Inayat Allah Quhpayi attended the lectures of al-Muqaddas al-Ardabili, al-Shaykh al-Baha'i, and 'Abd Allah al-Shushtari al-Isfahani.[5] His students are not mentioned in the relevant sources. However, Aqa Buzurg Tihrani mentions a book on rijal, whose author introduces himself as Abu l-Hasan b. 'Abd Allah, a student of Quhpayi.[6] Aqa Buzurg believes that he is probably Abu l-Hasan b. 'Abd Allah al-Kashi (d. after 1020/1611-2).[7]
Quhpayi is titled as al-Zaki al-Najafi.[8] There are disagreements about his lineage. Some biographers believe that he was originally from Kuhpayih, a town in eastern Isfahan[9], and others believe that he was from Najaf.[10] 'Abd Allah al-Afandi, a biographer, holds that he was originally from Najaf, although he was born in Kuhpayih.[11] He lived in Najaf and Isfahan, and for a short time, he lived in Kuhpayih at the command of Abbas I.[12]
There is no information about the date of his death. According to Ja'far Sobhani, a contemporary Shiite theologian and scholar of rijal, since Quhpayi transcribed the book Man la yahduruh al-faqih in 1026/1617, his death must have been after this date.[13]
Notes
- ↑ Khāwnsārī, Rawḍāt al-jannāt, vol. 4, p. 410.
- ↑ Amīn, Aʿyān al-Shīʿa, vol. 8, p. 381.
- ↑ Amīn, Aʿyān al-Shīʿa, vol. 8, p. 381; Āqā Buzurg al-Tihrānī, al-Dharīʿa, vol. 4, p. 55-56.
- ↑ Gharawī, Maʿa ʿulamā al-Najaf, vol. 1, p. 306.
- ↑ Khāwnsārī, Rawḍāt al-jannāt, vol. 4, p. 410.
- ↑ Āqā Buzurg al-Tihrānī, al-Dharīʿa, vol. 10, p. 102.
- ↑ Āqā Buzurg al-Tihrānī, al-Dharīʿa, vol. 6, p. 226.
- ↑ Khāwnsārī, Rawḍāt al-jannāt, vol. 4, p. 410.
- ↑ Mudarris Tabrīzī, Rayḥānat al-adab, vol. 4, p. 497; Āqā Buzurg al-Tihrānī, Maṣfa al-maqāl, p. 343.
- ↑ Khāwnsārī, Rawḍāt al-jannāt, vol. 4, p. 410; Amīn, Aʿyān al-Shīʿa, vol. 8, p. 381.
- ↑ Afandī Iṣfahānī, Riyāḍ al-ʿulamāʾ, vol. 4, p. 302.
- ↑ Khāwnsārī, Rawḍāt al-jannāt, vol. 4, p. 410.
- ↑ Subḥānī, Mawsūʿat ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ, vol. 11, p. 217.
References
- Amīn, al-Sayyid Muḥsin al-. Aʿyān al-Shīʿa. Edited by Ḥasan Amīn. Beirut: Dār al-Taʿāruf li-l-Maṭbūʿāt, 1403 AH.
- Afandī Iṣfahānī, ʿAbd Allāh. Riyāḍ al-ʿulamāʾ wa ḥiyāḍ al-fuḍalāʾ. Edited by Aḥmad Ḥusaynī Ashkwarī. Beirut: Muʾassisa Tārīkh al-ʿArabī, 1431 AH.
- Āqā Buzurg al-Tihrānī, Muḥammad Muḥsin. Al-Dharīʿa ilā taṣānīf al-shīʿa. Edited by ʿAlī Naqī Munzawī and Aḥmad Munzawī. Beirut: 1403 AH.
- Āqā Buzurg al-Tihrānī, Muḥammad Muḥsin. Maṣfa al-maqāl fī muṣannafī al-ʿilm al-rijāl. Edited by Aḥmad Munzawī. 1st edition. Tehran: Chāpkhāna-yi Dawlatī Iran, 1378 AH.
- Gharawī, Muḥammad. Maʿa ʿulamā al-Najaf. Beirut: Dār al-Thaqalayn, 1420 AH.
- Mudarris Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ʿAlī. Rayḥānat al-adab. [n.p]. Khayyām, 1369 SH.
- Subḥānī, Jaʿfar. Mawsūʿat ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ. Qom: Muʾassisat Imām al-Ṣādiq (a), 1418 AH.