Ad Darakutni

His full name is Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Umar ibn Ahmad ibn Mahdi ibn Masoud ibn al-Numan ibn Dinar ibn Abdullah al-Baghdadi al-Darakutni. He was born in the year 306 of the hijrah in Baghdad, in the Dar al-Kutn region ( Arabic. دار القطن ), which is why he got such a nisbu .

From childhood, he studied with Abul-Qasim al-Bagawi , Abu Bakr ibn Abu Dawood, Abu Bakr ibn Ziyad al-Naisaburi, Abu Ubeid al-Qasim (his brother) and many other ulama. He visited Abu Bakr al-Shafi'i and Ibn al-Muzaffar. Having matured, he goes to Sham and Egypt , where he studies with Ibn Hayavayih al-Naisaburi, Abu al-Tahir al-Zahli, Abu Ahmad ibn al-Nasih and many other scholars of that time.

Thanks to his deep knowledge, ad-Darakutni becomes a famous imam , a connoisseur of hadiths and their transmitters, methods of reading the Qur'an ( kiraat ) and their paths, fiqh , disagreements ( ichthylaf ) and other Muslim sciences. Al-Darakutni was the first to write a work on the methods of reading the Qur'an (kiraat), read the Qur'an to Abul-Hussein, Ahmad ibn Bawayan, Abu Bakr al-Nakkash, Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Dibaji. He studied the seven readings of the Qur'an (khuruf as-sab'a) from Abu Bakr ibn Mujahid. Hadith al-Hakim al-Naisaburi , the hafiz Abdul-Gani al-Azdi, Abu Hamid al-Isfaraini, Abu Nuaym al-Isfahani and other people from Baghdad , Damascus and Egypt passed from al-Darakutni.

Said Abu Abdurrahman al-Sulami (as al-Hakim reports):

I testify before Allah, verily, there was no man on earth who could be compared with ad-Darakutni in the knowledge of the hadiths of the Messenger of Allah ,   ﷺ   , as well as his associates , Tabiins and their followers.

Original text (ar.)

وقال أبو عبد الرحمن السلمي فيما نقله عنه الحاكم: وقال: شهدت بالله إن شيخنا الدارقطني لم يخلف على أديم الأرض مثله في معرفة حديث رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وكذلك الصحابة والتابعين وأتباعهم, قال: وتوفي يوم الخميس لثمان خلون من ذي القعدة من سنة خمس وثمانين وثلاث مائة وكذا أرخ الخطيب وفاته.

According to al-Sulami, ad-Darakutni died in the month of Zu-al-Qadah 385 HH, al-Khatib al-Baghdadi also reports.

Al-Khatib says in the biography of ad-Darakutni:

Abu Nasr Ali ibn Hibatullah ibn Makul told me: “I was foreseen as if I had asked about the situation of ad-Darakutni on the Day of Resurrection, and it was said to me: this one will be called“ Imam “in Paradise .”

Original text (ar.)

وقال الخطيب في ترجمته: حدثني أبو نصر علي بن هبة الله بن ماكولا, قال: رأيت كأنيأسأ

It is transmitted from ad-Darakutni that he said: “Most of all, I hate the science of Kalam ”

When people argued about who was worthier: Usman ibn Affan or Ali ibn Abu Talib and asked for fatwa to ad-Darakutni, he said:

'Ousman is worthier than Ali by unanimous agreement of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah,   ﷺ   , this is the word of the adherents of the Sunna , and this is the first that introduces into a deviation (from the truth).

Original text (ar.)

وقال الدارقطني: اختلف قوم من أهل بغداد, فقال قوم: عثمان أفضل, وقال قوم: علي أفضل, فتحاكموا إلي, فأمسكت, وقلت: الإمساك خير, ثم لم أر لديني السكوت, وقلت للذي استفتاني: ارجع إليهم, وقل لهم: أبو الحسن يقول : عثمان أفضل من علي باتفاق جماعة أصحاب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم, هذا قول أهل السنة, وهو أول عقد يحل في.

• al-Mujtana min as-sunan al-masura 'en an-Nabiy sall-Allahu' alayhi wa sallam, wa-t-tanbih ala as-sahih minha wa-s-sakim wa-htilaf an-nakilin laha fi alfazikha , which is more known as " Sunan ad-Darakutni ."
• al-Mu'talif wal-Muhtalif ( المؤتلف و المختلف )
• Ilyal al-Hadith ( علل الحديث )
• at-Tatabbu ' ( التتبع ) et al.

• أبو الحسن الدارقطني (ar.) . Islamweb.net . Archived March 24, 2013.
• Al-Zahabi . Ad-Darakutni // "Tazkirat al-huffaz" .