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Hanan b. Sadir

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Ḥanān b. Sadīr b. Ḥakīm b. Ṣuhayb (Arabic: حنان بن سدیر بن حکیم بن صهیب) was a narrator of hadith from Imam al-Sadiq (a),[1] Imam al-Kazim (a), and Imam al-Rida (a).[2] Sayyid Abu l-Qasim al-Khoei, a Shi'a rijal scholar, also considered him a narrator of Imam al-Baqir (a).[3] His Kunya was Abu l-Fadl, he was nicknamed al-Sayrafi, and was from Kufa.[4] His dates of birth and death are not known; however, it is said that he had a long life[5] and was alive until after 183/799,[6] during the time of Imam al-Rida (a).[7]

In biographical sources, he is introduced as a Thiqa (trustworthy)[8] and one of the prominent figures of the Shi'a;[9] however, it is reported that after the martyrdom of Imam al-Kazim (a), he inclined towards the Waqifiyya;[10] therefore, al-Allama al-Hilli, a Shi'a rijal scholar, despite his trustworthiness, did not narrate his hadiths.[11]

Hanan b. Sadir learned fiqh and hadith from the Infallible Imams (a) and their companions,[12] and a book titled Sifat al-Janna wa l-Nar is attributed to him.[13] His name appears in 184 narrations,[14] and his hadiths are about exegetical,[15] jurisprudential,[16] and ethical[17] subjects. His father, brother, and grandfather were also narrators of hadiths from Imam al-Sajjad (a), Imam al-Baqir (a), Imam al-Sadiq (a), and Imam al-Kazim (a).[18]

According to Ja'far Subhani in Mawsu'at tabaqat al-fuqaha', Hanan b. Sadir narrated from narrators such as Sadir al-Sayrafi (his father), Abd Allah b. Abi Ya'fur, Zurara b. A'yan, Salim al-Hannat, Yazid b. Khalifa al-Harithi, and Uqba b. Bashir al-Asadi.[19] Those who narrated from him include Safwan b. Yahya, Muhammad b. Isma'il b. Bazi', Yunus b. Abd al-Rahman, and Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi Nasr al-Sakuni.[20]

Notes

  1. Najāshī, Rijāl al-Najāshī, p. 146.
  2. Kashshī, Rijāl al-Kashshī, p. 555.
  3. Khūʾī, Muʿjam rijāl al-ḥadīth, vol. 6, pp. 301–302.
  4. Najāshī, Rijāl al-Najāshī, p. 146.
  5. Najāshī, Rijāl al-Najāshī, p. 146.
  6. Subḥānī, Mawsūʿat ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ, vol. 2, p. 172.
  7. Kashshī, Rijāl al-Kashshī, p. 555.
  8. Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, p. 164; Ibn Shahrāshūb, Maʿālim al-ʿulamāʾ, p. 44; Narāqī, Shiʿb al-maqāl, p. 178.
  9. Subḥānī, Mawsūʿat ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ, vol. 2, p. 172.
  10. Ṭūsī, Rijāl al-Ṭūsī, p. 334.
  11. Ḥillī, Rijāl al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī, p. 218.
  12. Subḥānī, Mawsūʿat ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ, vol. 2, p. 173.
  13. Najāshī, Rijāl al-Najāshī, p. 146.
  14. Subḥānī, Mawsūʿat ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ, vol. 2, p. 173.
  15. See for example: Furāt Kūfī, Tafsīr Furāt al-Kūfī, p. 227.
  16. See for example: Ṭūsī, Tahdhīb al-aḥkām, vol. 2, p. 289.
  17. Ibn Qūlawayh, Kāmil al-ziyārāt, p. 289.
  18. Ṭūsī, Rijāl al-Ṭūsī, pp. 113, 137, 334; Māmaqānī, Tanqīḥ al-maqāl, vol. 3, p. 155.
  19. Subḥānī, Mawsūʿat ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ, vol. 2, p. 172.
  20. Subḥānī, Mawsūʿat ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ, vol. 2, p. 172.

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