Ahmad ibn Ali al-Najashi

For the ruler of the Kingdom of Aksum from 614 to 631, see Najashi.

Ahmad ibn Ali al-Najashi
أحمد بن علي النجاشي
Title	Ibn al-Kufi
Personal life
Born	372 AH / 982 CE Baghdad
Died	1058 or 1071 CE Samarra
Era	Islamic golden age
Notable work(s)	Rijal al-Najashi
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Shia
Jurisprudence	Ja'fari
Teachers	Shaykh al-Mufid, Sharif al-Murtaza, Sharif al-Radi, Ibn al-Ghada'iri
Creed	Twelver

Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbas ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh al-Najāshī al-Asadī (Arabic: أحمد بن علي بن أحمد بن العباس بن محمد بن عبد الله النجاشي الأسدي; c. 982–1058), often simply referred to as al-Najāshī, was a Twelver Shi'ite Muslim scholar mainly known for his work on the subject of biographical evaluation (ʿilm al-rijāl, Islamic science dealing with the reliability of hadith transmitters),^[1] called the Rijāl al-Najāshī.^[2] His family is descended from Abu Samal ibn Hubayra al-Asadi (d. 60 AH / 679 CE), a poet of the Ridda Wars who repented and fought in the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah in 636, during the Muslim conquest of Persia. His ancestor was Abdullah al-Najashi, the wāli of al-Ahwaz at the time of Abu Ja'far al-Mansur (754–775), who was an "adamant Rāfiḍi" according to Basran historian Abu al-Yakzan (d. 805). Abdullah is also known for his correspondence of inquiry with Ja'far al-Sadiq. His son, Muhammad ibn Abdullah, was also the governor of Istakhr in Iran.^[3]

See also

• Muhammad ibn Umar al-Kashshi, and his Rijāl al-Kashshī

References

1. Agha Bozorg Tehrani, Az-Zaree'a ila Tasaneef ush-Shia, vol. 10, pg 154, 155
2. "أحمد بن علي بن أحمد بن العباس". Qadatona (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2019-11-23. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
3. Ansab al-Ashraf, al-Baladhuri – volume 11, page 172, in Arabic

External links

• Ahmad b. 'Ali al-Najashi