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Rifāʿa b. Mūsā (Arabic: رِفاعَة بن موسیٰ), known as al-Asadī al-Nakhkhās[1] was a Kufan[2] companion of Imam al-Sadiq (a) and Imam al-Kazim (a).[3]

Biographical sources have introduced him as Thiqa (trustworthy)[4] and have praised his method in hadith transmission.[5] Al-Shaykh al-Tusi in al-Ghayba considered him a Waqifi who returned to the Shi'a denomination.[6] According to al-Sayyid Abu l-Qasim al-Khoei (d. 1992), the author of Mu'jam rijal al-hadith, he also narrated from Imam al-Rida (a).[7]

Rifa'a's narrations cover jurisprudential,[8] exegetical,[9] and ethical[10] topics. His jurisprudential narrations are considered very numerous;[11] as many as 195 narrations attributed to him are preserved in the Four Books alone..[12] A book on Farāʾiḍ (inheritance shares) is also attributed to him.[13]

He narrated from Aban b. Taghlib, Isma'il b. Jabir, and Muhammad b. Muslim,[14] and narrators such as Ibn Abi 'Umayr, Ahmad b. Abi Nasr al-Bazanti, Al-Hasan b. Ali al-Washsha', and al-Hasan b. Mahbub have narrated hadith from him.[15]

Rifa'a's name is recorded in Shi'a sources as "Rifa'a b. Musa", "Rifa'a b. Musa al-Nakhkhas", and "Rifa'a al-Nakhkhas".[16] His time of life is estimated to be before 183/799.[17]

Notes

  1. Najāshī, Rijāl al-Najāshī, 1365 Sh, p. 166.
  2. Barqī, Rijāl al-Barqī, 1342 Sh, p. 45.
  3. Najāshī, Rijāl al-Najāshī, 1365 Sh, p. 166.
  4. Najāshī, Rijāl al-Najāshī, 1365 Sh, p. 166; Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, 1420 AH, p. 196.
  5. Najāshī, Rijāl al-Najāshī, 1365 Sh, p. 166.
  6. Ṭūsī, al-Ghayba, 1411 AH, p. 71.
  7. Khoei, Muʿjam rijāl al-ḥadīth, 1369 Sh, vol. 7, p. 198.
  8. For example see: Ṭūsī, al-Istibṣār, 1390 AH, vol. 3, p. 362.
  9. For example see: ʿAyyāshī, Tafsīr al-ʿAyyāshī, 1380 AH, vol. 1, p. 183.
  10. For example see: Ṣadūq, Thawāb al-aʿmāl, 1406 AH, p. 198.
  11. Subḥānī, Mawsūʿat ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ, 1418 AH, vol. 2, p. 202.
  12. Subḥānī, Mawsūʿat ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ, 1418 AH, vol. 2, p. 202.
  13. Najāshī, Rijāl al-Najāshī, 1365 Sh, p. 166.
  14. Khoei, Muʿjam rijāl al-ḥadīth, 1369 Sh, vol. 7, p. 198.
  15. Khoei, Muʿjam rijāl al-ḥadīth, 1369 Sh, vol. 7, p. 198.
  16. Khoei, Muʿjam rijāl al-ḥadīth, 1369 Sh, vol. 7, pp. 198-199.
  17. Subḥānī, Mawsūʿat ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ, 1418 AH, vol. 2, p. 201.

References

  • ʿAyyāshī, Muḥammad b. Masʿūd al-. Tafsīr al-ʿAyyāshī. Edited by Sayyid Hāshim Rasūlī Maḥallātī. Tehran, al-Maṭbaʿa al-ʿIlmiyya, 1st ed, 1380 AH.
  • Barqī, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-. Rijāl al-Barqī - al-Ṭabaqāt. Edited by Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī & Ḥasan Muṣṭafawī. Tehran, Intishārāt-i Dānishgāh-i Tehrān, 1st ed, 1342 Sh.
  • Khoei, Sayyid Abū l-Qāsim al-. Muʿjam rijāl al-ḥadīth. Qom, Markaz-i Nashr-i Āthār al-Shīʿa, 1369 Sh.
  • Najāshī, Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-. Rijāl al-Najāshī. Qom, Muʾassasat al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 6th ed, 1365 Sh.
  • Ṣadūq, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-. Thawāb al-aʿmāl wa ʿiqāb al-aʿmāl. Qom, Dār al-Sharīf al-Raḍī, 2nd ed, 1406 AH.
  • Subḥānī, Jaʿfar. Mawsūʿat ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ. Qom, Muʾassasat al-Imām al-Ṣādiq (a), 1418 AH.
  • Ṭūsī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-. Al-Ghayba. Edited by ʿAbbād Allāh Tehrānī & ʿAlī Aḥmad Nāṣiḥ. Qom, Dār al-Maʿārif al-Islāmiyya, 1st ed, 1411 AH.
  • Ṭūsī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-. Al-Istibṣār fī-mā ukhtulifa min al-akhbār. Edited by Ḥasan al-Mūsawī al-Kharsān. Tehran, Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, 1st ed, 1390 AH.
  • Ṭūsī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-. Fihrist kutub al-Shīʿa wa uṣūlihim wa asmāʾ al-muṣannifīn wa aṣḥāb al-uṣūl. Edited by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Ṭabāṭabāʾī. Qom, Maktabat al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī, 1st ed, 1420 AH.