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Ibrahim b. Mahziyar


Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Mahzīyār al-Ahwāzī (Arabic: ابواسحاق ابراهیم بن مهزیار الاهوازی) is one of the Shi'a hadith narrators in the third/ninth centuries. He was the famous companion of Imam al-Jawad (a), Imam al-Hadi (a), and Imam al-'Askari (a). The scholars of 'ilm al-rijal consider him a reliable hadith transmitter, albeit they have different ideas about the level of his reliability in hadith transmission.

Ibrahim b. Mahziyar
Companion ofImam al-Jawad (a), Imam al-Hadi (a), and Imam al-'Askari (a)
TeknonymAbu Ishaq
Religious AffiliationShi'a Islam
Wellknown Relatives'Ali b. Mahziyar (brohter), 'Ali b. Ibrahim b. Mahziyar, Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. Mahziyar
Birth~195/810-1
Death/Martyrdom~265/878-9
Professors'Ali b. Mahziyar, Salih b. Sindi, Faddala b. Ayyub, Ibn Abi 'Umayr
WorksAl-Bisharat

Lineage

There is not enough information about his life. We can only get some information about him from the sources of 'ilm al-rijal and hadith. His ancestors lived in Dawraq in Khuzestan.[1] His father was a Christian who converted to Islam.[2] His brother, 'Ali b. Mahziyar, is also one of the reliable Shi'a hadith transmitters.

Companion of Three Imams

He was the companion of Imam al-Jawad (a),[3] Imam al-Hadi (a),[4] Imam Hasan al-Askari (a), and according to some reports, Imam al-Mahdi (a). So it is estimated that he lived between 195/810-1 - 265/878-9. Ibn Babawayh has narrated a detailed hadith from Ibrahim which indicates that Ibrahim visited Imam al-Mahdi (a).[5] However, some have doubted the authenticity of this hadith.[6]

Trustworthiness

Al-Kashshi has narrated a hadith from Ibrahim's son, Muhammad, that shows that he had communication with Imam al-Mahdi's (a) agents.[7] There is another hadith suggesting that he was his brother's legatee;[8] and some rijal scholars consider this as a sign of his trustworthiness.[9] There is another hadith suggesting that he had been one of Imam al-'Askari's (s) agents,[10] and also some of rijal scholars, such as Mamaqani, considered this a sign of his trustworthiness and authenticity.[11]

Some believe, because Ibn Qulawayh has mentioned a hadith through Ibrahim in Kamil al-ziyarat, and because Ibn Qulawayh has said at the beginning of his book that he has only narrated from trustworthy narrators, Ibrahim can be considered trustworthy; however, al-'Allama al-Hilli believes that al-Kashshi's hadith is weak and has only praised him.[12]

Teachers

Apart from the hadiths that Ibrahim directly narrated from his contemporary Imams (a), he narrated other hadiths through:

Narrators

His name appears in the references of tens of Shi'a sources, to which great jurists like Muhammad Hasan al-Najafi referred. Following are some of narrators who narrated from him:

Works

Al-Bisharat is the only book which has been attributed to him.[13] It is probable that this book is his brother's book, which Ibrahim narrated from[14] and al-Najashi recorded it with the narrator's name as the author.

Notes

  1. ↑ Najāshī, Rijāl al-Najāshī, p. 253.
  2. ↑ Najāshī, Rijāl al-Najāshī, p. 253.
  3. ↑ Ṭūsī, Rijāl al-Ṭūsī, p. 374.
  4. ↑ Ṭūsī, Rijāl al-Ṭūsī, p. 383.
  5. ↑ Ṣadūq, Kamāl al-dīn, p. 445-453.
  6. ↑ Khoei, Muʿjam rijāl al-ḥadīth, vol. 1, p. 307.
  7. ↑ Kashshī, Rijāl al-Kashshī, p. 531-532.
  8. ↑ Kulaynī, Furūʿ al-Kāfī, vol. 4, p. 310.
  9. ↑ Nūrī, Mustadrak al-Wasāʾil, vol. 3, p. 550.
  10. ↑ Kulaynī, al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 518.
  11. ↑ Māmaqānī, Tanqīḥ al-maqāl, vol. 1, p. 37.
  12. ↑ Hillī, Khulāsat al-aqwāl, vol. 1, p. 51.
  13. ↑ Najāshī, Rijāl, vol. 2, p. 74-75.
  14. ↑ Ṭūsī, Fihrist, p. 265-266.

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