Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ
The Weakened Ones
By: Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Ghaḍā'irī
Translator: tashayyu
al-Ḍuʿafāʾ (also known as "Rijāl Ibn al-Ghaḍāʾirī") by Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿUbaydullah al-Ghaḍāʾirī, a prominent scholar in the field of Rijāl, is an important work within the Shīʿī tradition of Rijāl. The book, meaning "The Weakened Ones" in Arabic, is a comprehensive biographical work focused on biographical information and information regarding the credibility of Shīʿī transmitters of Ḥadīths. Initially, there was no trace of the existence of this work between the 5th/11th and the 7th/13th centuries. Its first mention be first found by al-Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn Ibn Ṭāwūs in the 7th/13th century. This led to controversies among scholars regarding the book's true authorship. What can definitely be said about the work though, based on the comments of individuals like al-Sayyid al-Zanjānī and al-Sayyid Muḥammad Riḍā al-Sīstānī is that the author is a Shīʿī who has access to the works of the Imāmī school and has great knowledge about the narrators of the sect. The book is alphabetically organised, providing a comprehensive perspective on numerous Shīʿī transmitters of Ḥadīths. Thus the book is a valuable source for those studying the history of Shīʿī narrators and the complex scholarly debates surrounding the reliability of Ḥadīth transmitters.
1 | Introduction
2 | Alif: Eighteen men
Chapter 1
Abān b. Abī ʿAyyāsh
Chapter 2
Ibrāhīm b. ʿUmar
Chapter 3
Isḥāq b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
Chapter 4
Aḥmad b. Rashad b. Khuthaym
Chapter 5
Ibrāhīm b. ʿUbaydullāh b. al-ʿAlā, al-Madanī
Chapter 6
Umayya b. ʿAlī, al-Qaysī
Chapter 7
Ismāʿīl b. Mihrān b. Muḥammad b. Abī Naṣr, al-Sakūnī
Chapter 8
Idrīs b. Ziyād
Chapter 9
Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq
Chapter 10
Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Khālid b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī
Chapter 11
Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Sayyār
Chapter 12
Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd b. Ḥammād b. Saʿīd b. Mihrān
Chapter 13
Ibrāhīm b. Sulaymān b. ʿAbdullāh b. Hayyan, al-Hamdānī
Chapter 14
Isḥāq b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Abān b. Marrār
Chapter 15
Aḥmad b. Mihrān
Chapter 16
Aḥmad b. Muḥammad, al-Ṭabarī, Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Khalīlī
Chapter 17
Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī b. ʿAlī, al-Diʿbilī [ibn Akhī Diʿbil]
Chapter 18
Aḥmad b. ʿAlī, Abū al-ʿAbbās, al-Rāzī
3 | Bā: Two men:
4 | Tā: One man:
5 | Jīm: Six men:
6 | Ḥā: Fifteen Men:
Chapter 1
al-Ḥasan b. Rāshid
Chapter 2
Ḥumayd b. Shuʿayb, al-Shuʿaybī, al-Hamdānī
Chapter 3
Ḥudhayfa b. Manṣūr b. Kathīr b. Salama, al-Khuzāʿī, Abū Muḥammad
Chapter 4
al-Ḥasan b. Ḥudhayfa b. Manṣūr
Chapter 5
al-Ḥusayn b. Mihrān b. Muḥammad b. Abī Naṣr, Abū ʿAbdillāh
Chapter 6
al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ḥamza
Chapter 7
al-Ḥasan b. al-ʿAbbās b. al-Ḥarīsh, al-Rāzī, Abū Muḥammad
Chapter 8
al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī ʿUthmān, Abū Muḥammad
Chapter 9
al-Ḥasan b. Asad, al-Ṭafāwī, al-Baṣrī, Abū Muḥammad
Chapter 10
al-Ḥusayn b. Muskān
Chapter 11
al-Ḥusayn b. Shādhawayh, Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Ṣaffār, al-Qummī
Chapter 12
al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Zakariyya b. Ṣāliḥ b. Zufar, al-ʿAdawī, Abū Saʿīd, al-Baṣrī
Chapter 13
al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥamdān, al-Ḥuṣaynī, al-Junbulā’ī, Abū ʿAbdillāh
Chapter 14
al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan, Abū Muḥammad, al-ʿAlāwī, al-Ḥusaynī
Chapter 15
al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Zakariyya, al-Bazūfarī, al-ʿAdawī from ʿAdī al-Rabāb
7 | Khā: Three Men:
8 | Dāl: Two Men:
9 | Dhāl: Two Men:
10 | Rā: One Man:
11 | Zā: Four Men:
12 | Sīn: Thirteen Men:
Chapter 1
Sulaym b. Qays, al-Hilālī, al-ʿĀmirī
Chapter 2
Saʿd b. Ṭarīf, al-Ḥanẓalī, al-Khaffāf (the boot maker)
Chapter 3
Saʿīd b. Khuthaym, Abū MuʿAmmār al-Hilālī
Chapter 4
Sulaymān b. Dāwud, al-Munqarī, al-Isbahānī
Chapter 5
Sulaymān b. Hārūn, al-Nakhʿī, Abū Dāwud
Chapter 6
Sulaymān b. Muʿallā b. Khunays
Chapter 7
Sālim b. Abī Salama, al-Kindī, al-Sijistānī
Chapter 8
Saʿd b. Muslim
Chapter 9
Suhayl b. Ziyād, Abū Yaḥyā, al-Wāsiṭī
Chapter 10
Salama b. al-Khaṭṭāb, al-Barāwastānī, Abū Muḥammad
Chapter 11
Sahl b. Ziyād, Abū Saʿīd, al-Ādamī, al-Rāzī
Chapter 12
Sahl b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullāh (b. Aḥmad) b. Sahl, al-Dībājī, Abū Muḥammad
Chapter 13
Sulaymān b. Zakariyya al-Daylamī
13 | Shīn: One man
14 | Ṣad: Five men
15 | Ṭā: One man
16 | Ẓā: One man
17 | ʿAyn: Thirty-two men
Chapter 1
ʿAmr b. Thābit b. Hurmuz, Abū al-Miqdām, al-Ḥaddād (the ironsmith)
Chapter 2
ʿAlī b. Maymūn, Abū al-Ḥasan
Chapter 3
ʿAmr b. Shimr, Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Juʿfī
Chapter 4
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Sālim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Ashall (the paralytic)
Chapter 5
ʿAmmār b. Marwān, al-Thawbānī
Chapter 6
ʿAbdullāh b. Ibrāhīm b. Abī ʿUmar, al-Ghifārī, Abū Muḥammad
Chapter 7
ʿUmar b. Tawba, Abū Yaḥyā, al-Ṣanʿānī
Chapter 8
ʿAbdullāh b. Bakr, al-Arjānī
Chapter 9
ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥakam, al-Armanī
Chapter 10
ʿAbdullāh b. Sālim, al-Ṣayrafī (the money changer)
Chapter 11
ʿAbdullāh b. Baḥr
Chapter 12
ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Aṣamm, al-Misʿami, Abū Muḥammad
Chapter 13
ʿAlī b. Ḥassān b. Kathīr
Chapter 14
ʿUmāra b. Zayd, al-Khaywānī, al-Madanī
Chapter 15
ʿAbdullāh b. al-Qāsim b. al-Baṭal, al-Ḥārithi
Chapter 16
ʿAbdullāh b. al-Qāsim, al-Haḍramī
Chapter 17
ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥammād, al-Anṣāri
Chapter 18
ʿAbdullāh b. Ayyūb, al-Qummī
Chapter 19
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad b. Nahīk, al-Samarī, Abū Muḥammad
Chapter 20
ʿAlī b. al-ʿAbbās, al-Jarādhīnī, Abū al-Ḥasan, al-Rāzī
Chapter 21
ʿUbayd b. Kathīr b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. ʿAbdullāh b. Sharīk al-ʿĀmirī, al-Waḥīdī, al-Kilābī, Abū Saʿīd
Chapter 22
ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmayr b. Maḥfūẓ al-Balawī, Abū Muḥammad, al-Miṣrī
Chapter 23
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abū Ḥammād
Chapter 24
ʿUmar b. al-Mukhtār, al-Khuzāʿī
Chapter 25
ʿĪsā b. al-Mustafād, al-Bajalī, Abū Mūsā al-Ḍarīr
Chapter 26
ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. ʿAnbasa, al-Ḥaddād (the ironsmith), Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī
Chapter 27
ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Khadījī
Chapter 28
ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Naṣr, al-Bandanījī, Abū al-Ḥasan
Chapter 29
ʿAlī b. Aḥmad, Abū al-Qāsim, al-Kūfī
Chapter 30
ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar, al-Hurmuzānī, Abū al-Ḥasan
Chapter 31
ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿImrān, al-Makhzūmī
Chapter 32
ʿAlī b. Abī Ḥamza
18 | Fā: Four men
19 | Qāf: Four (men)
20 | Mīm: Thirty-eight men (transl. note: there are only thirty five listed below)
Chapter 1
Muʿallā b. Khunays
Chapter 2
al-Mufaḍḍal b. ʿUmar, al-Juʿfī, Abū ʿAbdillāh
Chapter 3
al-Mufaḍḍal b. Ṣāliḥ, Abū Jamīla, al-Asadī
Chapter 4
Muḥammad b. Abū Zaynab, Abū al-Khaṭṭāb, the maimed, al-Zarrād (the maker of mail)
Chapter 5
Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh, al-Jaʿfarī
Chapter 6
Munakhkhal b. Jamīl
Chapter 7
Mayyāḥ, al-Madā’inī
Chapter 8
Mūsā b. Suʿdan, al-Ḥannāṭ (the wheat dealer)
Chapter 9
Muṣādif
Chapter 10
Maḥbūb b. Ḥukaym
Chapter 11
Mūsā b. Janjawayh, Abū ʿImrān, al-Urmanī
Chapter 12
Muḥammad b. Sulaymān b. Zakariyya, al-Daylamī, Abū ʿAbdillāh
Chapter 13
Muḥammad b. Muṣādif
Chapter 14
Muḥammad b. Furāt b. Aḥnaf
Chapter 15
Muḥammad b. Sinān, Abū Jaʿfar, al-Hamdānī
Chapter 16
Muḥammad b. Jumhūr, Abū ʿAbdillāh
Chapter 17
Muḥammad b. Khālid al-Barqī b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, Abū ʿAbdillāh
Chapter 18
Muḥammad b. Awrama, Abū Jaʿfar, al-Qummī
Chapter 19
Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Ṣayrafī
Chapter 20
Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm, al-Hamdānī, Abū Jaʿfar
Chapter 21
Muḥammad b. Mūsā b. ʿĪsā, al-Sammān (the butter merchant), Abū Jaʿfar, al-Hamdānī
Chapter 22
Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Shammūn, Abū Jaʿfar
Chapter 23
Muḥammad b. Ḥassān, al-Rāzī, Abū Jaʿfar
Chapter 24
Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Mihrān, al-Karkhī, Abū Jaʿfar
Chapter 25
Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd, al-Ṣā’igh (the jeweler), Abū Jaʿfar
Chapter 26
al-Muʿallā b. Muḥammad, al-Baṣrī, Abū Muḥammad
Chapter 27
Muḥammad b. Sālim b. Abū Salama, al-Kindī, al-Sijistānī
Chapter 28
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Khāqān, al-Nahdī, Abū Jaʿfar, al-Qalānisī
Chapter 29
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad, al-Jāmūrānī, Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Rāzī
Chapter 30
Muʿallā b. Rāshid
Chapter 31
Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Aḥmad b. Bashīr, al-Barmakī, Abū Jaʿfar
Chapter 32
Muḥammad b. Baḥr, al-Ruhanī, al-Shaybānī, Abū al-Ḥusayn, al-Narmāshīrī
Chapter 33
Muḥammad b. al-Qāsim, al-Mufassir, al-Astarābādī
Chapter 34
Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. al-Muṭṭalib, al-Shaybānī, Abū Mufaḍḍal
Chapter 35
Muḥammad b. Nuṣayr
21 | Wāw: One man
22 | Yā: Seven men
23 | The kunya: One man
24 | Addendum, Material quoted from Ibn al-Ghaḍā’irī by other authors (al-Najāshī, ʿAllāma Ḥillī and Ibn Dāwud) but not found within the Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafa.
Chapter 1
Jābir b. Yazīd, al-Juʿfī, al-Kūfī
Chapter 2
al-Ḥusayn b. al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad b. Ayyūb b. Shammūn
Chapter 3
Ḥabīb b. Aws, Abū Tammām, al-Ṭā’ī
Chapter 4
Ibn ʿUqda
Chapter 5
ʿUmar b. Abī al-Miqdām, Thābit al-ʿIjlī
Chapter 6
Layth b. al-Bakhtarī al-Murādī, Abū Baṣīr
Chapter 7
Aḥmad b. Hilāl, al-ʿAbartā’ī, Abū Jaʿfar
Chapter 8
Aḥmad b. al-Qāsim b. Ṭarkhān, Abū al-Sarrāj
Chapter 9
al-Ḥusayn b. Mayyāḥ, al-Madā’inī
Chapter 10
al-Ḥusayn b. al-Mukhāriq b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Warqā b. Ḥabash, Abū Junāda, al-Salūlī
Chapter 11
Rabiʿ b. Zakariyya, al-Warrāq (the papermaker)
Chapter 12
Sulaymān b. ʿUmar, Abū Dāwud, al-Nakhaʿī
Chapter 13
Sulaymān b. Yaʿqūb, al-Nakhaʿī
Chapter 14
ʿAlī b. Ḥassān, al-Wāsiṭī
Chapter 15
Sālim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
Chapter 16
ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAmr b. Ṣāliḥ, al-Khathʿamī
Chapter 17
ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Abī al-Daylam
Chapter 18
Muḥammad b. Aslam, al-Ṭabarī, al-Ḥalabī, Abū Jaʿfar
Chapter 19
Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAbdullāh, al-Jaʿfarī
Chapter 20
Muḥammad b. Muṣādif
Chapter 21
Nuqayʿ b. al-Ḥārith, Abū Dāwud, al-Sabīʿī, al-Hamdānī
Chapter 22
Hishām b. Ibrāhīm, al-ʿAbbāsī
Chapter 23
Muḥammad b. Qays, Abū Naṣr, al-Asadī
Chapter 24
Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Walīd, Abū Jaʿfar
Chapter 25
Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Ribāṭ
Chapter 26
Hishām b. Sālim, al-Jawālīqī
Chapter 27
Isḥāq b. Muḥammad, al-Baṣrī, Abū Yaʿqūb
Chapter 28
Ḥudhayfa b. al-Khuzāʿī
Chapter 29
al-Ḥusayn b. Abī Saʿīd, Hāshim b. Ḥayyān, al-Mukārī, Abū ʿAbdillāh
Chapter 30
al-Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad b. al-Mughīra, Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Bushanjī
Chapter 31
al-Ḥusayn b. Asad al-Baṣrī
Chapter 32
Hamdan, Abū Jaʿfar
Chapter 33
Sulaymān b. ʿAbdullāh, al-Daylamī
Chapter 34
Sulaym b. Qays al-Hilālī
Chapter 35
Ṣāliḥ b. Saʿīd, al-Aḥwal
Chapter 36
Sabāḥ b. Bashīr b. Yaḥyā, al-Muqri’, Abū Muḥammad
Chapter 37
ʿAbd al-Mālik b. al-Mundhir, al-Qummī
Chapter 38
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Sinān, Abū ʿĪsā
Chapter 39
Muḥammad b. al-Walīd, al-Ṣayrafī
Chapter 40
al-Muʿtaqal (likely an error for al-Mufaḍḍal) b. ʿUmar, al-Juʿfī, Abū ʿAbdillāh
Chapter 41
al-Mughīra b. Saʿīd
Chapter 42
Naṣr b. al-Ṣabbāḥ, Abū al-Qāsim
Chapter 43
Yaḥyā b. Abī al-Qāsim, Abū Baṣīr, al-Asadī
Chapter 44
Yūsuf b. Bahman
Chapter 45
Jaʿfar b. ʿUbaydullāh b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Talib
Chapter 46
al-Ḥasan b. Abī Qutāda ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Ḥafṣ b. Ubayd b. Ḥumayd
Chapter 47
al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Azdī, Abū ʿAbdillāh
Chapter 48
Aḥmad b. Abī ʿAbdillāh, al-Barqī
Chapter 49
Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿUmar b. Yazīd, al-Ṣayqal, Abū Jaʿfar
Chapter 50
Aḥmad b. Isḥāq b. ʿAbdullāh b. Saʿd b. Mālik b. al-Aḥwaṣ, al-Ashʿarī, Abū ʿAlī, al-Qummī
Chapter 51
Jaʿfar b. ʿAbdullāh, head of al-Midharī, Abū ʿAbdillāh
Chapter 52
Jaʿfar b. Aḥmad b. Ayyūb, al-Samarqandī, Abū Saʿīd
Chapter 53
Ḥammād b. ʿĪsā, Abū Muḥammad, al-Juhannī
Chapter 54
Samāʿa b. Mihrān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Haḍramī
Chapter 55
Ṣāliḥ b. Muqātil, al-Daylamī
Chapter 56
ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. Faḍḍāl, Abū al-Ḥasan
Chapter 57
Abān b. Taghlab b. Rabāḥ, Abū Saʿīd, al-Bakrī, al-Jarīrī
Chapter 58
Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Nuʿmān, Ibn Abī Ṭarīfa, al-Bajalī, client of al-Aḥwal, Abū Jaʿfar
Chapter 59
Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar, al-Ḥimyarī, Abū Jaʿfar, al-Qummī
Chapter 60
Abū al-Shadākh
Chapter 61
Khālid b. Yaḥyā b. Khālid
Chapter 62
al-Ḥusayn b. Abī al-ʿAlā, al-Khaffāf, Abū ʿAlī
Chapter 63
Sahl b. Ziyād, Abū Saʿīd al-Ādamī, al-Rāzī
Chapter 64
ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm, al-Hamdānī, Abū Muḥammad
Chapter 65
al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad b. Ayyūb b. Shammūn
Chapter 66
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Quḍāʿa b. Ṣafwān b. Mihrān, Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Ṣafwāni
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