Ibn Abī S̲h̲ayba
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, Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm (= Abū S̲h̲ayba) b. ʿUt̲h̲mān al-ʿAbsī al-Kūfī , ʿIrāḳī traditionist and historian (159-235/775-849) who came of a family of religious scholars; his grandfather Abū S̲h̲ayba was already ḳāḍī of Wāsiṭ, but he is described as ḍaʿīf (Ibn Ḥad̲j̲ar, Lisān al-Mīzān , vi, 395). Abū Bakr studied at al-Ruṣāfa, travelled “in search of learning” and died at Kūfa after having resided at Bag̲h̲dād. He had many pupils, among them Ibn Mād̲j̲a [q.v.], and wrote several works, which are listed in the Fihrist : K. al-Taʾrīk̲h̲ , K. al-Fitan , K. Ṣiffīn , K. al-Ḏj̲amal , K. al-Futūḥ in the field of history; K. al-Sunan fi ’l-fiḳh , K. al-Tafsīr , K. al-Musnad ; the last, curiously known also as K. al-Muṣannaf , exists in many manuscripts (see Brockelmann, S I, 215; in S I, 260 there is mentioned a Radd ʿalā Abī Ḥanīfa , printed at Delhi in 1333 with a translation in Urdu), and parts of its five volumes have been printed in Multān. This work had a particular success in the Mag̲h̲rib and in Muslim Spain, where Baḳī b. Mak̲h̲lad [q.v.] himself gave an exposition of it on his return from the east, to the great anger of the muftī of Cordova Aṣbag̲h̲ b. K̲h̲alīl (see E. Lévi-Provençal, Hist. Esp. Mus ., iii, 477-8) and where it remained in use as a textbook for the ʿulamāʾ (see Ibn K̲h̲ayr al-Is̲h̲bīlī, Fahrasa , 131-3; al-Ruʿaynī, Barnāmad̲j̲ , 44). In the Mag̲h̲rib the number of the canonical collections of ḥadīt̲h̲ s had been increased from six to ten: al-Buk̲h̲ārī, Muslim, Mālik, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, al-Bazzār, al-Dāraḳuṭnī, al-Bayhaḳī, Ibn Abī S̲h̲ayba, probably by the early Almohads, and in any case before 621/1225, the date at which al-Marrākus̲h̲ī ( al-Muʿd̲j̲ib , Cairo 1949, 279) relates that Abū Yūsuf Yaʿḳūb gave orders that there should be extracted from al-Muṣannafāt al-ʿas̲h̲ara the ḥadīt̲h̲s on prayer and everything connected with it, in order to put an end to the supremacy of the Mālikī mad̲h̲hab (cf. I. Goldziher, Muh. St ., ii, 265).
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Ibn Abī S̲h̲ayba
in Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition Online (EI-2 English)Search for other papers by Ch. Pellat in
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(875 words)