Draft:Shu'ayb b. Ya'qub al-'Aqarqufi
Shuʿayb b. Yaʿqūb al-ʿAqarqufī (Arabic: شعیب بن یعقوب العقرقوفی), known as Abū Yaʿqūb, was a companion of Imam al-Sadiq (a)[1] and Imam al-Kazim (a) and a Shi'a narrator.[2] Rijal scholars consider al-'Aqarqufi to be the nephew (sister's son) of Abu Basir.[3] However, this Abu Basir is identified as Yahya b. al-Qasim, distinct from the famous Abu Basir Layth b. al-Bakhtari al-Muradi.[4] The title "al-'Aqarqufi" is derived from his birthplace, the region of 'Aqarquf near Baghdad. He lived in the first half of the 2nd/8th century.[5] It is said that Shu'ayb had two sons named Ya'qub and Ibrahim; the name of Ibrahim appears in written Shi'a works. His place of death and burial are unknown.[6]
Al-Shaykh al-Tusi, the Shi'a rijal scholar, in his book Al-Fihrist, introduces Shu'ayb b. Ya'qub as an author of an *Asl* and reports his two chains of transmission to him.[7] Al-Najashi, another Shi'a rijal scholar, also considers him to have a book and regards him as Thiqa (reliable), noting his prominent status among narrators.[8] Researchers of Ilm al-rijal after al-Najashi have also considered his opinion valid.[9] In hadith sources, his name appears as "Shu'ayb b. Ya'qub" in the chains of 22 hadiths and as "Shu'ayb al-'Aqarqufi" in the chains of 34 hadiths.[10] Given the content of his narrations, some researchers have categorized his hadith tendency as focused on jurisprudential issues (Fiqh), although he has also narrated hadiths on ethics.[11]
Al-Kashshi narrates a hadith from Imam al-Kazim (a) in which Shu'ayb al-'Aqarqufi is the narrator, containing praise for him. In this hadith, the Imam explicitly appoints Shu'ayb as his representative to answer religious questions for a man from the Maghrib.[12]
No teacher other than Abu Basir (Yahya b. al-Qasim) has been recorded for Shu'ayb b. Ya'qub al-'Aqarqufi.[13] According to Mamaqani in Tanqih al-maqal, the names of some of his students and those who narrated from him are as follows:
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- Abd Allah b. Abd al-Rahman
- Ghalib b. Uthman
- Zakariyyā al-Muʾmin
- Ali b. al-Hakam[14]
Abu l-Hasan Rabbani Sabziwari, in the article "Shu'ayb b. Ya'qub al-'Aqarqufi: A Trustworthy Narrator", also counts ʿAlāʾ b. Razīn and Aḥsan b. ʿUrwa among Shu'ayb's narrators.[15]
Notes
- ↑ Ṭūsī, Rijāl al-Ṭūsī, p. 352.
- ↑ Najāshī, Rijāl al-Najāshī, p. 221.
- ↑ Najāshī, Rijāl al-Najāshī, p. 221; Ṭūsī, Al-Fihrist, p. 82.
- ↑ Shahīd al-Thānī, Rasāʾil, vol. 2, p. 1000.
- ↑ Rabbānī Sabziwārī, "Shuʿayb b. Yaʿqūb al-ʿAqarqufī: Muḥaddith-i amīn", p. 172.
- ↑ Rabbānī Sabziwārī, "Shuʿayb b. Yaʿqūb al-ʿAqarqufī: Muḥaddith-i amīn", pp. 175–176.
- ↑ Ṭūsī, Al-Fihrist, p. 82.
- ↑ Najāshī, Rijāl al-Najāshī, p. 221.
- ↑ See: Ḥillī, Khulāṣat al-aqwāl, p. 167; Māmaqānī, Tanqīḥ al-maqāl, vol. 2, pp. 86–87; Khūʾī, Muʿjam rijāl al-ḥadīth, vol. 10, p. 38.
- ↑ Khūʾī, Muʿjam rijāl al-ḥadīth, vol. 10, pp. 40, 42.
- ↑ Rabbānī Sabziwārī, "Shuʿayb b. Yaʿqūb al-ʿAqarqufī: Muḥaddith-i amīn", p. 175.
- ↑ Kashshī, Ikhtiyār maʿrifat al-rijāl, vol. 5, p. 741.
- ↑ Rabbānī Sabziwārī, "Shuʿayb b. Yaʿqūb al-ʿAqarqufī: Muḥaddith-i amīn", p. 174.
- ↑ Māmaqānī, Tanqīḥ al-maqāl, vol. 2, p. 87.
- ↑ Rabbānī Sabziwārī, "Shuʿayb b. Yaʿqūb al-ʿAqarqufī: Muḥaddith-i amīn", p. 174.
References
- Ḥillī, al-Ḥasan b. Yūsuf al-. Khulāṣat al-aqwāl fī maʿrifat al-rijāl. N.p, Markaz-i Ḥāfiẓ-shināsī, 1417 AH.
- Kashshī, Muḥammad b. ʿUmar al-. Ikhtiyār maʿrifat al-rijāl al-maʿrūf bi-Rijāl al-Kashshī. Qom, Muʾassasat Āl al-Bayt, 1363 Sh.
- Khūʾī, Sayyid Abū l-Qāsim al-. Muʿjam rijāl al-ḥadīth wa tafṣīl ṭabaqāt al-ruwāt. Iran, n.p., 1372 Sh.
- Māmaqānī, ʿAbd Allāh. Tanqīḥ al-maqāl fī ʿilm al-rijāl. Najaf, n.p., n.d.
- Najāshī, Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-. Rijāl al-Najāshī. Qom, Muʾassasa-yi Būstān-i Kitāb, 1402 Sh.
- Rabbānī Sabziwārī, Abū l-Ḥasan. "Shuʿayb b. Yaʿqūb al-ʿAqarqufī: Muḥaddith-i amīn". In Farhang-i Kawthar. No. 83 (Autumn 1389/2010).
- Shahīd al-Thānī, Zayn al-Dīn b. ʿAlī al-. Rasāʾil. Qom, Intishārāt-i Daftar-i Tablīghāt-i Islāmī, 1st ed., 1421 AH.
- Ṭūsī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-. Al-Fihrist. Najaf, Al-Sharīf al-Raḍī, n.d.
- Ṭūsī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-. Rijāl al-Ṭūsī. Qom, Al-Sharīf al-Raḍī, n.d.