Ali ibn Asbat
Abu l-Hasan 'Ali bin Asbat bin Salim Bayya' al-Zutti[1] was one of the Shi'a narrators and companions of Ali al-Rida and Muhammad al-Jawad. He narrated Hadiths from Ali al-Rida, Jamil ibn Darraj, Husayn ibn Zararah, and Muhammad ibn Sinan. People like Musa ibn Ja'far Baghdadi and Muhammad ibn Hussein ibn Abi al-Khattab narrated from him.[2] Ali ibn Asbat was from Kufa.[3]
Life and family
[edit]Ali ibn Asbat was a Muhaddith, Moqri and Shia commentator and worked in the clothing business.[4] His father, Asbat ibn Salem was one of the narrators of Ja'far al-Sadiq and Musa al-Kazim. His brother Hussein ibn Asbat was a narrator of Ali al-Ridha and his uncle Yaqub ibn Salem al-Ahmar was considered a reliable and trustworthy narrator. According to the scholars of Rijal, he was one of the companions and narrators of Muhammad al-Jawad. He learned jurisprudence and hadith from Ali al-Ridha. And through the intermediary of al-Sadiq, he has narrated the hadiths of Muhammad. He has narrated about 387 hadiths. His hadiths from Ali al-Ridha are related to various jurisprudential issues, such as certainty, humility, sins, buying and selling, Istikhara prayer, interpretation of some verses, and affordability.[3]
Ali ibn Asbat was a agent of Muhammad al-Jawad in Egypt.[5] An account by the Twelver traditionist Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni (d. 941) describes how Ali ibn Asbat visited Muhammad al-Jawad on behalf of the Egyptian Imamites.[6]
Ibn Asbat narrated hadith from people such as Asbat ibn Salem (his father), Yaqub ibn Salem (his uncle), Abdullah ibn Bakir, Abdullah ibn Sinan, Abdullah ibn al-Mughira, Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Faddal, Ali ibn Abi Hamza al-Bata'ini, and many others. Hussein ibn Asbat (his brother), Hasan ibn Musa al-Khashshab, Musa ibn Qasim Bijli, Abd al-Azim al-Hasani and others have narrated narrations from him.[7]
Belief
[edit]Ibn Asbat belonged to the Fathi religion and there are two opinions about his change of religion and belief: Some have said that Ali ibn Mahziar wrote a treatise rejecting ibn Asbat religion and called him to the truth, but it was not effective, and he died with the same opinion.[2] Some others say that letters were exchanged between ali ibn Asbat and Ali ibn Mahziar about Ali ibn-Asbat religion until he went to the service of Muhammad al-Javad, and there he changed his Fathite belief. It is stated in more sources that this case is stronger.[8]
Work
[edit]His works include: Tafsir al-Qur'an, Al-Dalael, Al-Nawader, Al-Mazar, the comprehensive collection of hadiths and originals. The hadith book was narrated by Zabian ibn Hakim and the original book was narrated by Ibn Abi Umayr. Al-Nawader book is the narration of al-Sheikh Harun ibn Musa on the authority of Abi al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Saeed al-Hamdani.[2]
Death
[edit]There is no information about the exact time of Ali ibn Asbat's death, but he was alive until the middle of the third century.[7] He probably died after 230 AD.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Madelung, Wilferd (1976). "The Sources of Ismāʿīlī Law". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 35 (1): 29–40. ISSN 0022-2968. JSTOR 544823.
- 1 2 3 4 Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Education, Encyclopedia of Islamic Authors, Vol. 1, p. 552, taken from an article by "Ali Kufi"
- 1 2 Legenhausen, Muhammad. "The Gospel of the Shi'ah of 'Ali". al-islam.org.
- ↑ صدری اقدم, علیرضا (1399). "سفارش امام جواد (ع) به خانوادهها در مورد دختران دمبخت". IRNA.
- ↑ Baghestani, Esmail (2014). "Jawad, Imam". Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam (in Persian). Vol. 11. Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation. ISBN 9789644470127.
- ↑ Hussain, Jassim M. (1986). Occultation of the Twelfth Imam - A Historical Background (PDF). Routledge. pp. 45–46. ISBN 9780710301581. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-06-07. Retrieved 2026-01-01.
- 1 2 Moghadasi, zahra. Ibn Asbat. Encyclopedia of Imam Reza.
- ↑ "Asl Ali bin Asbat;navader of Ali Ibn Asbat". The center of the great Islamic encyclopedia.