Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ

The Weakened Ones

By: Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Ghaḍā'irī

Translator: tashayyu


al-Ḍuʿafāʾ (also known as "Rijāl Ibn al-Ghaḍāʾirī") by Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿUbaydullah al-Ghaḍāʾirī, a prominent scholar in the field of Rijāl, is an important work within the Shīʿī tradition of Rijāl. The book, meaning "The Weakened Ones" in Arabic, is a comprehensive biographical work focused on biographical information and information regarding the credibility of Shīʿī transmitters of Ḥadīths. Initially, there was no trace of the existence of this work between the 5th/11th and the 7th/13th centuries. Its first mention be first found by al-Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn Ibn Ṭāwūs in the 7th/13th century. This led to controversies among scholars regarding the book's true authorship. What can definitely be said about the work though, based on the comments of individuals like al-Sayyid al-Zanjānī and al-Sayyid Muḥammad Riḍā al-Sīstānī is that the author is a Shīʿī who has access to the works of the Imāmī school and has great knowledge about the narrators of the sect. The book is alphabetically organised, providing a comprehensive perspective on numerous Shīʿī transmitters of Ḥadīths. Thus the book is a valuable source for those studying the history of Shīʿī narrators and the complex scholarly debates surrounding the reliability of Ḥadīth transmitters.

Chapter 1

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAmr b. Thābit b. Hurmuz, Abū al-Miqdām, al-Ḥaddād (the ironsmith)

Chapter 2

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAlī b. Maymūn, Abū al-Ḥasan

Chapter 3

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAmr b. Shimr, Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Juʿfī

Chapter 4

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Sālim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Ashall (the paralytic)

Chapter 5

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAmmār b. Marwān, al-Thawbānī

Chapter 6

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbdullāh b. Ibrāhīm b. Abī ʿUmar, al-Ghifārī, Abū Muḥammad

Chapter 7

1 Ḥadīth
ʿUmar b. Tawba, Abū Yaḥyā, al-Ṣanʿānī

Chapter 8

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbdullāh b. Bakr, al-Arjānī

Chapter 9

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥakam, al-Armanī

Chapter 10

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbdullāh b. Sālim, al-Ṣayrafī (the money changer)

Chapter 11

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbdullāh b. Baḥr

Chapter 12

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Aṣamm, al-Misʿami, Abū Muḥammad

Chapter 13

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAlī b. Ḥassān b. Kathīr

Chapter 14

1 Ḥadīth
ʿUmāra b. Zayd, al-Khaywānī, al-Madanī

Chapter 15

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbdullāh b. al-Qāsim b. al-Baṭal, al-Ḥārithi

Chapter 16

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbdullāh b. al-Qāsim, al-Haḍramī

Chapter 17

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥammād, al-Anṣāri

Chapter 18

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbdullāh b. Ayyūb, al-Qummī

Chapter 19

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad b. Nahīk, al-Samarī, Abū Muḥammad

Chapter 20

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAlī b. al-ʿAbbās, al-Jarādhīnī, Abū al-Ḥasan, al-Rāzī

Chapter 21

1 Ḥadīth
ʿUbayd b. Kathīr b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. ʿAbdullāh b. Sharīk al-ʿĀmirī, al-Waḥīdī, al-Kilābī, Abū Saʿīd

Chapter 22

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmayr b. Maḥfūẓ al-Balawī, Abū Muḥammad, al-Miṣrī

Chapter 23

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abū Ḥammād

Chapter 24

1 Ḥadīth
ʿUmar b. al-Mukhtār, al-Khuzāʿī

Chapter 25

1 Ḥadīth
ʿĪsā b. al-Mustafād, al-Bajalī, Abū Mūsā al-Ḍarīr

Chapter 26

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. ʿAnbasa, al-Ḥaddād (the ironsmith), Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī

Chapter 27

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Khadījī

Chapter 28

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Naṣr, al-Bandanījī, Abū al-Ḥasan

Chapter 29

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAlī b. Aḥmad, Abū al-Qāsim, al-Kūfī

Chapter 30

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar, al-Hurmuzānī, Abū al-Ḥasan

Chapter 31

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿImrān, al-Makhzūmī

Chapter 32

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAlī b. Abī Ḥamza

Chapter 1

1 Ḥadīth
Muʿallā b. Khunays

Chapter 2

1 Ḥadīth
al-Mufaḍḍal b. ʿUmar, al-Juʿfī, Abū ʿAbdillāh

Chapter 3

1 Ḥadīth
al-Mufaḍḍal b. Ṣāliḥ, Abū Jamīla, al-Asadī

Chapter 4

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Abū Zaynab, Abū al-Khaṭṭāb, the maimed, al-Zarrād (the maker of mail)

Chapter 5

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh, al-Jaʿfarī

Chapter 6

1 Ḥadīth
Munakhkhal b. Jamīl

Chapter 7

1 Ḥadīth
Mayyāḥ, al-Madā’inī

Chapter 8

1 Ḥadīth
Mūsā b. Suʿdan, al-Ḥannāṭ (the wheat dealer)

Chapter 9

1 Ḥadīth
Muṣādif

Chapter 10

1 Ḥadīth
Maḥbūb b. Ḥukaym

Chapter 11

1 Ḥadīth
Mūsā b. Janjawayh, Abū ʿImrān, al-Urmanī

Chapter 12

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Sulaymān b. Zakariyya, al-Daylamī, Abū ʿAbdillāh

Chapter 13

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Muṣādif

Chapter 14

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Furāt b. Aḥnaf

Chapter 15

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Sinān, Abū Jaʿfar, al-Hamdānī

Chapter 16

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Jumhūr, Abū ʿAbdillāh

Chapter 17

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Khālid al-Barqī b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, Abū ʿAbdillāh

Chapter 18

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Awrama, Abū Jaʿfar, al-Qummī

Chapter 19

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Ṣayrafī

Chapter 20

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm, al-Hamdānī, Abū Jaʿfar

Chapter 21

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Mūsā b. ʿĪsā, al-Sammān (the butter merchant), Abū Jaʿfar, al-Hamdānī

Chapter 22

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Shammūn, Abū Jaʿfar

Chapter 23

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Ḥassān, al-Rāzī, Abū Jaʿfar

Chapter 24

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Mihrān, al-Karkhī, Abū Jaʿfar

Chapter 25

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd, al-Ṣā’igh (the jeweler), Abū Jaʿfar

Chapter 26

1 Ḥadīth
al-Muʿallā b. Muḥammad, al-Baṣrī, Abū Muḥammad

Chapter 27

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Sālim b. Abū Salama, al-Kindī, al-Sijistānī

Chapter 28

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Khāqān, al-Nahdī, Abū Jaʿfar, al-Qalānisī

Chapter 29

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad, al-Jāmūrānī, Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Rāzī

Chapter 30

1 Ḥadīth
Muʿallā b. Rāshid

Chapter 31

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Aḥmad b. Bashīr, al-Barmakī, Abū Jaʿfar

Chapter 32

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Baḥr, al-Ruhanī, al-Shaybānī, Abū al-Ḥusayn, al-Narmāshīrī

Chapter 33

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. al-Qāsim, al-Mufassir, al-Astarābādī

Chapter 34

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. al-Muṭṭalib, al-Shaybānī, Abū Mufaḍḍal

Chapter 35

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Nuṣayr

Chapter 1

1 Ḥadīth
Jābir b. Yazīd, al-Juʿfī, al-Kūfī

Chapter 2

1 Ḥadīth
al-Ḥusayn b. al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad b. Ayyūb b. Shammūn

Chapter 3

1 Ḥadīth
Ḥabīb b. Aws, Abū Tammām, al-Ṭā’ī

Chapter 4

1 Ḥadīth
Ibn ʿUqda

Chapter 5

1 Ḥadīth
ʿUmar b. Abī al-Miqdām, Thābit al-ʿIjlī

Chapter 6

1 Ḥadīth
Layth b. al-Bakhtarī al-Murādī, Abū Baṣīr

Chapter 7

1 Ḥadīth
Aḥmad b. Hilāl, al-ʿAbartā’ī, Abū Jaʿfar

Chapter 8

1 Ḥadīth
Aḥmad b. al-Qāsim b. Ṭarkhān, Abū al-Sarrāj

Chapter 9

1 Ḥadīth
al-Ḥusayn b. Mayyāḥ, al-Madā’inī

Chapter 10

1 Ḥadīth
al-Ḥusayn b. al-Mukhāriq b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Warqā b. Ḥabash, Abū Junāda, al-Salūlī

Chapter 11

1 Ḥadīth
Rabiʿ b. Zakariyya, al-Warrāq (the papermaker)

Chapter 12

1 Ḥadīth
Sulaymān b. ʿUmar, Abū Dāwud, al-Nakhaʿī

Chapter 13

1 Ḥadīth
Sulaymān b. Yaʿqūb, al-Nakhaʿī

Chapter 14

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAlī b. Ḥassān, al-Wāsiṭī

Chapter 15

1 Ḥadīth
Sālim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

Chapter 16

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAmr b. Ṣāliḥ, al-Khathʿamī

Chapter 17

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Abī al-Daylam

Chapter 18

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Aslam, al-Ṭabarī, al-Ḥalabī, Abū Jaʿfar

Chapter 19

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAbdullāh, al-Jaʿfarī

Chapter 20

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Muṣādif

Chapter 21

1 Ḥadīth
Nuqayʿ b. al-Ḥārith, Abū Dāwud, al-Sabīʿī, al-Hamdānī

Chapter 22

1 Ḥadīth
Hishām b. Ibrāhīm, al-ʿAbbāsī

Chapter 23

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Qays, Abū Naṣr, al-Asadī

Chapter 24

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Walīd, Abū Jaʿfar

Chapter 25

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Ribāṭ

Chapter 26

1 Ḥadīth
Hishām b. Sālim, al-Jawālīqī

Chapter 27

1 Ḥadīth
Isḥāq b. Muḥammad, al-Baṣrī, Abū Yaʿqūb

Chapter 28

1 Ḥadīth
Ḥudhayfa b. al-Khuzāʿī

Chapter 29

1 Ḥadīth
al-Ḥusayn b. Abī Saʿīd, Hāshim b. Ḥayyān, al-Mukārī, Abū ʿAbdillāh

Chapter 30

1 Ḥadīth
al-Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad b. al-Mughīra, Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Bushanjī

Chapter 31

1 Ḥadīth
al-Ḥusayn b. Asad al-Baṣrī

Chapter 32

1 Ḥadīth
Hamdan, Abū Jaʿfar

Chapter 33

1 Ḥadīth
Sulaymān b. ʿAbdullāh, al-Daylamī

Chapter 34

1 Ḥadīth
Sulaym b. Qays al-Hilālī

Chapter 35

1 Ḥadīth
Ṣāliḥ b. Saʿīd, al-Aḥwal

Chapter 36

1 Ḥadīth
Sabāḥ b. Bashīr b. Yaḥyā, al-Muqri’, Abū Muḥammad

Chapter 37

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAbd al-Mālik b. al-Mundhir, al-Qummī

Chapter 38

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Sinān, Abū ʿĪsā

Chapter 39

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. al-Walīd, al-Ṣayrafī

Chapter 40

1 Ḥadīth
al-Muʿtaqal (likely an error for al-Mufaḍḍal) b. ʿUmar, al-Juʿfī, Abū ʿAbdillāh

Chapter 41

1 Ḥadīth
al-Mughīra b. Saʿīd

Chapter 42

1 Ḥadīth
Naṣr b. al-Ṣabbāḥ, Abū al-Qāsim

Chapter 43

1 Ḥadīth
Yaḥyā b. Abī al-Qāsim, Abū Baṣīr, al-Asadī

Chapter 44

1 Ḥadīth
Yūsuf b. Bahman

Chapter 45

1 Ḥadīth
Jaʿfar b. ʿUbaydullāh b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Talib

Chapter 46

1 Ḥadīth
al-Ḥasan b. Abī Qutāda ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Ḥafṣ b. Ubayd b. Ḥumayd

Chapter 47

1 Ḥadīth
al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Azdī, Abū ʿAbdillāh

Chapter 48

1 Ḥadīth
Aḥmad b. Abī ʿAbdillāh, al-Barqī

Chapter 49

1 Ḥadīth
Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿUmar b. Yazīd, al-Ṣayqal, Abū Jaʿfar

Chapter 50

1 Ḥadīth
Aḥmad b. Isḥāq b. ʿAbdullāh b. Saʿd b. Mālik b. al-Aḥwaṣ, al-Ashʿarī, Abū ʿAlī, al-Qummī

Chapter 51

1 Ḥadīth
Jaʿfar b. ʿAbdullāh, head of al-Midharī, Abū ʿAbdillāh

Chapter 52

1 Ḥadīth
Jaʿfar b. Aḥmad b. Ayyūb, al-Samarqandī, Abū Saʿīd

Chapter 53

1 Ḥadīth
Ḥammād b. ʿĪsā, Abū Muḥammad, al-Juhannī

Chapter 54

1 Ḥadīth
Samāʿa b. Mihrān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Haḍramī

Chapter 55

1 Ḥadīth
Ṣāliḥ b. Muqātil, al-Daylamī

Chapter 56

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. Faḍḍāl, Abū al-Ḥasan

Chapter 57

1 Ḥadīth
Abān b. Taghlab b. Rabāḥ, Abū Saʿīd, al-Bakrī, al-Jarīrī

Chapter 58

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Nuʿmān, Ibn Abī Ṭarīfa, al-Bajalī, client of al-Aḥwal, Abū Jaʿfar

Chapter 59

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar, al-Ḥimyarī, Abū Jaʿfar, al-Qummī

Chapter 60

1 Ḥadīth
Abū al-Shadākh

Chapter 61

1 Ḥadīth
Khālid b. Yaḥyā b. Khālid

Chapter 62

1 Ḥadīth
al-Ḥusayn b. Abī al-ʿAlā, al-Khaffāf, Abū ʿAlī

Chapter 63

1 Ḥadīth
Sahl b. Ziyād, Abū Saʿīd al-Ādamī, al-Rāzī

Chapter 64

1 Ḥadīth
ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm, al-Hamdānī, Abū Muḥammad

Chapter 65

1 Ḥadīth
al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad b. Ayyūb b. Shammūn

Chapter 66

1 Ḥadīth
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Quḍāʿa b. Ṣafwān b. Mihrān, Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Ṣafwāni