-=[Sufyān said: What an isnād this is!!]
While many of us are familiar with the story of Ḥāṭib, most of us overlook Sufyān bin ʿUyayna’s comment at the end of the report.
Some commentaries point out that this simply has to do with the reliability of the transmitters.
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While many of us are familiar with the story of Ḥāṭib, most of us overlook Sufyān bin ʿUyayna’s comment at the end of the report.
Some commentaries point out that this simply has to do with the reliability of the transmitters.
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![-=[Sufyān said: What an isnād this is!!]
While many of us are familiar with the story of Ḥāṭib, mos...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLJq-6BX0AAK9qI.jpg)
However, it seems like there is more to it than that since Sufyān should be used to reliable transmitters.
Firstly, what is the isnād of this hadith?
Sufyān heard from ʿAmr bin Dīnār from al-Ḥasan bin Muḥammad from ʿUbaydullāh bin Abī Rāfiʿ from ʿAlī bin Abī Ṭālib.
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Firstly, what is the isnād of this hadith?
Sufyān heard from ʿAmr bin Dīnār from al-Ḥasan bin Muḥammad from ʿUbaydullāh bin Abī Rāfiʿ from ʿAlī bin Abī Ṭālib.
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Al-Ḥasan is the son of Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah.ʿUbaydullāh is the son of Abū Rāfiʿ, the freed slave of the Prophet (peace be upon him). In other words, the grandson of ʿAlī is narrating from a mawlā of Banī Hāshim, from his grandfather, OR a Hāshimī from a mawlā from a Hāshimī.
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Al-Ḥasan could have simply attributed the report to ʿAlī without mentioning his source. He also could have attributed it to his father and nobody would have suspected him. Instead, he declared his source, a mawlā of Banī Hāshim, the son of a freed slave, from his grandfather.4/4
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