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Ibn al-Salah: a Kurd from Shahrazur who wrote «The Sciences of Hadith»
ابن الصلاح: كرديٌّ من شَهْرَزُور كتب «علوم الحديث»
Ibn al-Salah was a Kurd from Shahrazur, in today's northern Iraq, and first studied law with his father there. He then studied in Mosul, Baghdad, Khurasan and Syria, and taught in Jerusalem and then Damascus. In his book ʿUlum al-Hadith he gathered the rules for accepting and rejecting reports; it became known as «Ibn al-Salah's Introduction», and those who came after him built on it.
- In brief
- Son of a Kurdish jurist; his book became the basis of the science of hadith terminology
- Outside Arabic
- Muqaddimat Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ
«ابن الصلاح، الإمام الحافظ المفتي شيخ الإسلام تقي الدين أبو عمرو عثمان ابن المفتي صلاح الدين عبد الرحمن بن عثمان بن موسى الكردي الشهرزوري الشافعي، صاحب كتاب علوم الحديث … وتفقه على والده بشهرزور.»
The modern location of Shahrazur, the name «Ibn al-Salah's Introduction» and the claim that later scholars built on it come from outside the source; the last is borne out by the many commentaries and versifications of the book.
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