Tadween As-Sunnah 10

‫‪The Compilation of the Sunnah: It’s‬‬
‫‪Establishment & Development from the 1st to‬‬

‫)‪9th Century (A.H.‬‬
‫ﺗدوﯾن اﻟﺳﻧﺔ اﻟﻧﺑوي‪ :‬ﻧﺷﺄﺗﮫ وﺗطوره ﻣن اﻟﻘرن اﻷول إﻟﻰ ﻧﮭﺎﯾﺔ اﻟﻘرن‬
‫اﻟﺗﺎﺳﻊ اﻟﮭﺟري‬
‫ﺗﺄﻟﯾف‪ :‬ﻣﺣﻣد ﻣطر اﻟزھراﻧﻲ‬
‫‪Pg. 125 - 127‬‬
Lesson Plan
❖ Brief Biography on Imam an-Nasaa’i
❖ His Travels, Teachers, and Students
❖ Introduction to his Methodology in the Sunan
❖ Explanations of al-Mujtabaa
Brief Biography on Imam an-Nasaa’i
The Imam, Hafidh, Shahid ‫ إن ﺷﺎء ﷲ‬Sheikh ul-Islam, Abu AbdurRahman Ahmad b. Shu’ayb b. Ali b. Sinan
al-Khurasaani an-Nasaa’i. Author of the Sunan, al-Kuna, ad-Du’afa, and others. Born in 215 AH.
He was born in Nasa (or Nisa), Turkmenistan and sought knowledge at an early age. He travelled to Qutayba b.
Saed in 230 AH. He said: “I remained with Qutayba b. Saed for a year and two months.” (Siyar ‘Alam)
He was good-faced even in his old age. He had 4 wives and 2 maid slaves. It was narrated that he would share
his time between his wives and maid slaves equally. He would prefer to wear the Nubian garments and eat
poultry that were bought and fattened for him… (Siyar A’lam)
He would make Hajj nearly every year and used to fast every other day as Prophet Dawud ‫ﻋﻠﯾﮫ اﻟﺳﻼم‬
He was a courageous fighter. He used to go for Jihad and showed excessive boldness and sacrifice for Muslims.
ad-Daraqutni: Abu AbdurRahman is given preference ahead of all who are referred to in this science during his
time-period (Siyar A’alam)
ad-Daraqutni: Abu Bakr b. al-Haddad ash-Shafi’i narrated a large amount of hadith - and he never narrated from
anyone other than an-Nasaa’i. He would say, “I am pleased with making him [Nasaa’i] the proof I present
between myself and Allah.” (Siyar A’alam)
Bio Cont.
‘AbdulWahhab b. Muhammad b. Ishaq: Abu Abdillah b. Mandah said to me: Those that authored in the Sahih,
distinguished between what’s proven and what’s defective, and the mistakes from what’s correct are four: Bukhari,
Muslim, Abu Dawud, and Abu AbdurRahman an-Nasaa’i. (Siyar A’lam)
Ibn al-Mubarak was asked: Someone says that whoever claims the statement of Allah “Verily I am Allah. There is no
god beside Me. So worship Me...” (Taha: 14) is created is a Kafir? Ibn al-Mubarak said: He has spoken the truth.
an-Nasaa’i said: And this is my belief! (Siyar A’lam)
Muhammad b. Musa al-Ma’moon: I head some people criticizing Nasaa’i in reference to his work “Khasaa’is ‘Ali” … so I
asked him about that. He said: I entered Dimashq and I found some heretics there disrespecting ‘Ali were plenty. So I
wrote the book Khasaa’is hoping that Allah would guide them. [Muhammad said] He then wrote Fadaa’il as-Sahaaba.
It was then said to him while I was present: Won’t you author in the virtues of Mu’aawiyah ‫ !?رﺿﻲ ﷲ ﻋﻧﮫ‬He replied:
And what should I put together? The hadith “May Allah not fill his stomach”?! … (Siyar A’lam)
Controversies arose between an-Nasaa’i and those extremists due to this and they beat him severely and this was
the cause of his death. ad-Daraqutni said: He left towards Hajj but was met with a trial when he reached Dimashq
and attained martyrdom. He [an-Nasaa’i] ordered that he be carried to Mecca. He was taken there and buried.
[ad-Daraqutni said] He was buried in between Safa and Marwa. (Siyar A’lam). Others said he was buried in Ramalah.
He passed away in Sha’baan the year 303 AH ‫رﺣﻣﮫ ﷲ‬

His Teachers: Ishaq b. Raahaway, Hisham b.
‘Amar, Ishaq b. Shaahin, al-Harith b. Miskeen,
al-Hassan b. as-Sabbaah, Mahmoud b.
Ghaylan, Muhammad b. an-Nadr, Suwaid b.
Nasr
“‫”ﻗﺎل اﻟﺣﺎرث ﺑن ﻣﺳﻛﯾن ﻗراء ًة ﻋﻠﯾﮫ وأﻧﺎ أﺳْ ﻣَﻊ‬
His Students: Abu Bishr ad-Dawlaabi, Abu

Ja’far at-Tahaawai, Abu ‘Ali an-Naysaaburi,
Hamza b. Muhammad al-Kinaani, Abu Bakr
as-Sunni, at-Tabaraani, Ahmad b. Muhammad
al-Azdi ..
Adh-Dahahbi: He travelled in seek of

knowledge in Khurasaan, al-Hijaaz, Misr,
al-’Iraq, al-Jazeera, ash-Shaam, ath-Thagoor,
then resided in Misr. Then the Hufah travelled
to him and there remained no equal to him in
this field.. (Siyar A’lam)
Introduction to an-Nasaa’i Methodology in his Sunan
When the Imam had finished compiling Sunan Al-Kubra he presented to the governor of Ramalah so the governor asked
him “is it all sahih?” he replied in the negative, thus the governor suggested and requested that he compiles another book
and gathers in there Sahih Hadeeth. So then he did this and named his book Sunan As-Sugra “the small Sunan” (i.e.
al-Mujtaba).
Al-Mujtaba (meaning, the selected) has about 5,758 hadith, including repeated narrations, which the author selected from
his larger work al-Kubra (which has about 11,949) and is compiled according to abwaab al-Fiqhiyya
Due to the overwhelming Sahih and Hasan narrations, and few weak narrations - this books falls in line to number three
amongst the six books of hadith in terms of authenticity though not in time period.
Ahmad b. Mahbood al-Ramli: I heard an-Nasaa’i say: When I made the decision to put together my “Sunan” I made
Istikhaara to Allah about narrating from certain Shuyookh that my heart was doubtful about. I decided [in the end] to
refrain from their narrations, therefore I left out many narrations which I had a high chain (‘Uluw) in. (Muqaddimah Sharh
as-Suyuti)
Abu al-Hasan al-Ma’aarifi: If you were to look at what the people of hadith have presented [in their works] then you would
notice that what an-Nasaa’i has produced is closest to Authenticity in comparison to many others. (Muqaddimah Sharh
as-Suyuti)
Muhammad b. Mu’awiya al-Ahmar: Majority of Kitab as-Sunan is Sahih and some of it contains defects and he did not
clarify it. Though al-Muntakhab (i.e. al-Mujtabaa) is ALL Sahih. (Muqaddimah Sharh as-Suyuti)
Introduction to an-Nasaa’i Methodology in his Sunan
In General an-Nasaa’is book amongst the six books contains the least amount of weak ahadith after the Sahihayn and the least
amount of criticized narrators. After which comes Abu Dawud, then Tirmidhi, then comes Ibn Majah - as he has come with
narrations from men who have been accused of lying. (Tadween as-Sunnah)
He Combined between the Method of Bukhari AND Muslim
- His Fiqh is taken from his Chapter titles and the related narrations are found underneath
- His used the practice of Tahweel often in his Asaneed and is precise in the mode of transmission that the narrators used
He Clarifies if a Hadith is Defective and Comments upon Narrators
- If he remains quiet about a hadith and it’s narrators, then they are strong according to him and there is no ‘Illa
His Conditions in the Narrators:
He would accept into his book those who were not agreed to be rejected by the ٍStrictest of scholars (‫)اﻟﻣﺗﺷددﯾن‬
- Even if this meant he had to use instead a Naazil Isnaad in its place
Abu Talib Ahmad b. Nasr: And who can be patient upon what an-Nasaa’i has been patient upon? With him is what’s been narrated
by Qutayba through Abu Lahi’ah - and he did not narrate it. (Siyar A’lam)
al-Hafidh b. Tahir: I asked Sa’d b. ‘Ali about a narrator and he graded him Thiqah. I said: But an-Nasaa’i weakened him! He replied: O
my son! Don’t you know that Abi AbdurRahman’s conditions in narrators is more strict than the conditions of Bukhari and Muslim!?
[adh-Dhahabi said] And he spoke correctly. He has indeed weakened some of the narrators of Sahih Bukhari and Muslim. (Siyar
A’lam)
Explanations of al-Mujtabaa
Sharh Sunan an-Nasaa’i by Abi al-Abbass Ahmad b. Abi Waleed Rushid (d. 563 AH)
al-Im’aan fi Sharh an-Nasaa’i Abi AbdurRahman by ‘Ali b. Abdullah b. Khalaf
an-Ni’ma (d. 567 AH)
Sharh Zawaa’id Sunan an-Nasaa’i by Abi Hafs Siraajudeen ‘Umar b. ‘Ali
al-Mullaqqin (d. 804 AH)
Zahr ar-Ruba ‘Ala al-Mujtabaa by Jalaludeen as-Suyuti (d. 911 AH) in a summarized
explanation
Haashiyah as-Sindi ‘Ala an-Nasaa’i by Nur ad-Deen Muhammad as-Sindi (d. 1138
AH)
Sharh Sunan an-Nasaa’i by Yahya b. al-Mutahar al-Yemani (d. 1268 AH)
Thakeera al-Uqba Fi Sharh al-Mujtabaa by Muhammad b. Adam al-Ethiopee (d.
1442 AH) in about 40 volumes

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‫‪The Compilation of the Sunnah: It’s‬‬

‫‪Establishment & Development from the 1st to‬‬

He passed away in Sha’baan the year 303 AH ‫رﺣﻣﮫ ﷲ‬

“‫”ﻗﺎل اﻟﺣﺎرث ﺑن ﻣﺳﻛﯾن ﻗراء ًة ﻋﻠﯾﮫ وأﻧﺎ أﺳْ ﻣَﻊ‬

His Students: Abu Bishr ad-Dawlaabi, Abu

Adh-Dahahbi: He travelled in seek of

He Combined between the Method of Bukhari AND Muslim

He Clariﬁes if a Hadith is Defective and Comments upon Narrators

His Conditions in the Narrators:

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