Muslim scholar Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khallād al-Rāmahurmuzī |
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Title | Judge (Qāḍī) |
Born | Unknown |
Died | before 971 CE/360 AH |
Ethnicity | Persian |
Region | Rām-hurmuz |
Main interests | Hadith, poetry |
Works | al-Muḥaddith al-Fāṣil bayn al-Rāwī wa al-Wāʻī |
Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khallād al-Rāmahurmuzī (Arabic: ابو محمد الحسن بن عبد الرحمن بن خلاد الرامهرمزي) (?—before 971 CE/360 AH), commonly referred to in medieval literature as Ibn al-Khallād,[1] was a hadith specialist and author who wrote one of the first comprehensive books compiled in hadith terminology literature, al-Muḥaddith al-Fāṣil bayn al-Rāwī wa al-Wāʻī.[2]
Al-Rāmahurmuzī's specific date of birth remains undetermined, but can be approximated based upon the dates of his teachers' deaths, placing his birth roughly 100 years prior to his own death.[2] Therefore, 871/260 is a fairly sound estimate, according to The Encyclopaedia of Islam, based the long life spans generally assumed for early hadith specialists.[2] The name al-Rāmahurmuzī is an ascription to Rām-hurmuz a town in Khūzistān in present-day south-western Iran. The significance of Rām-hurmuz was its central location at the intersection of Ahwāz, Shūshtar, Iṣfahān and Fārs between the Āb -i Kurdistān and the Gūpāl rivers.[3]
He first began his hadith studies in 903/290, hearing hadith from his father, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khallād, and Muḥammad ibn ʻAbdillāh al-Ḥaḍarī, Abū al-Ḥuṣayn al-Wādiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥibbān al-Māzinī and others from their generation.[1] He worked as a judge (qāḍī) for a period of time,[1][2][4] although little detail is provided. Al-Dhahabi described Al-Rāmahurmuzī as "the distinguished imam...who was from the imams of hadith and this will be apparent to anyone who reflects upon his work in the science of hadith."[1]
His students include Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣaydāwī, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Layth al-Shīrāzī, Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Mardawayh, Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Nahāwandī and numerous others from the inhabitants of Persia.[1]
Al-Dhahabi said he was unable to find the date of Al-Rāmahurmuzī's death and speculated it to have been during the 350s AH, between 961 and 971 CE.[1] He then quoted Abū al-Qāsim ibn Mandah as mentioned in his work, al-Wafayāt, that Al-Rāmahurmuzī lived until almost 971/360 while living in the city of Rām-hurmuz.[1] The Encyclopaedia of Islam specified his death as occurring in 971/360.[2]
Al-Rāmahurmuzī was a poet[5] and a few lines of his poetry were collected in Yatīmah al-Dahr by al-Thaʻālabī.[2] Two of his works of prose remain until the present, both concerning the subject of hadith.[2]