Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Wazīr (d. 840/1436) was a Zaydi Hadith scholar. He wrote a rebuttal of the Shi'ite Jafari school and then penned a massive defense of the Prophet's Sunna as understood through Prophetic hadith. His creed has been a matter of historical and scholarly debate. According to Yāsir Qadhi, Ibn al-Wazīr was originally a Zaydi but later converted to Sunni Islam[1]—a claim that reflects the specific perspective of the cited author rather than an uncontested fact.
Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Wazīr | |
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| Personal | |
| Born | 775 A.H/1373 C.E |
| Died | 840 A.H/1436 C.E |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Zaydi |
| Jurisprudence | Independent |
| Main interest(s) | Hadith |
| Notable work(s) | Tanqih al-anzar |
| Muslim leader | |
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According to Damaris Wilmers, the question of Ibn al-Wazīr’s affiliation has been widely debated. She writes: "What many studies on Ibn al-Wazīr have in common is the attempt to discern whether or not he is a Zaydi scholar in either a theological or a legal sense or both, or to associate Ibn al-Wazīr’s individual positions with one of the existent schools of thought. This was already done by Ibn al-Wazīr’s contemporaries, followed by generations of Zaydi scholars as well as recent Muslim and Western scholarship in general. Al-Ḥarbī’s thesis is a good example of this attempt. Whereas some, like ʿIzzān or al-Akwaʿ, claim that Ibn al-Wazīr embodies central features of the Zaydiyya, others, like Haykel, conclude that Ibn al-Wazīr has left the school altogether and fallen in with another, namely the traditionist school that received the attribute of being Sunni. Some, however, like al-Ṣubḥī, have recognized Ibn al-Wazīr’s unique position outside of the school system, a view I agree with entirely; to my mind, that unique position featured a syncretistic version of a universalist Islam. Whether or not he thereby fell in with or even founded the school of Yemenī traditionists is a subject for further comparative research."[2]
Amongst his works is a commentary on Ibn al-Salah's Muqaddima, titled Tanqih al-anzar.[3]
Works
editIbn al-Wazir authored many works, including:
- Tanqih al-anzar.
- al-ʿAwasim wa al-Qawassim fi al-Dhab ʿan Sunnat ʾAbi Qasim.
- al-Burhan al-Qatiʿ fi ʾItbat al-Saniʿ wa Jamiʿ ma Jaʾat bihi al-Charaʾiʿ.
- Īthār al-Ḥaqq ʿala al-Khalq.
- al-Rawd al-Bassim fi al-Dhab ʿan Sunnat ʾAbi Qasim.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Qadhī, Yāsir (November 12, 2005). مقالات الجهم بن صفوان و اثرها في الفرق الإسلامية [Maqālāt al-Jahm ibn Ṣafwān wa-atharuhā fī al-firaq al-Islāmīyah]. Dār Adwā al-Salaf. p. 913 – via Google Books.
- ^ Wilmers, Damaris (2018). Beyond Schools: Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Wazīr’s (d. 840/1436) Epistemology of Ambiguity. Leiden: Brill. p. 9. ISBN 978-90-04-37835-3.
- ^ A.C. Brown, Jonathan (2007). The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon. Brill Publishers. p. 314. ISBN 978-9004158399.
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