Abū ‘Abd Allāh Nu‘aym bin Ḥammād al-Khuzā‘ī al-Marwazī (; 13 Jumada al-Awwal 228 AH / 18 February 843 CE in

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) was a traditionist from

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and was later based in Egypt and Baghdad. He was nicknamed Farid or Faradi due to his reputation in the field of succession law ('' farā’iḍ'').

Life

Allamah Dhahabi (rahimahullah) states, "Nu’aym (rahimahullah) was a senior in knowledge, however I am not inclined to his narrations eing reliable" Hafiz Ibn Rajab Al Hanbali writes: "Nu’aym (rahimahullah), although some have declared him reliable, hey did this, due to themhaving good thoughts regarding him on account of his firmness on Sunnah and his rigidness on refuting the innovators. They he Muhaddithunhave said that he would nintentionallyerr hen narrating Hadiths When the Muhaddithun realised that he has erred in many Hadiths, they declared him weak." His scientific work as a collector of hadith falls within the period before the drafting of the first major canonical collections . He was followed by, among others, al-Bukhari in hadith. Nu'aym ibn Hammad studied and taught first in

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, then moved to Egypt, where he lived for forty years. In theological questions he followed the mainstream Islamic theology. Consequently, he refused during the

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the createdness of the Qur'an, al-Khalq Qur'an (خلق القرآن) and other teachings that the Mu'tazilah recognized and therefore he was exiled from Egypt to Baghdad. He died in prison in

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Works

His ''magnum opus'' is ''Kitab al-Fitan'', a comprehensive work on the signs before the day of

Qiyamah In Islam, "the promise and threat" () of Judgement Day ( or ), is when "all bodies will be resurrected" from the dead, and "all people" are "called to account" for their deeds and their faith during their life on Earth. It has been called "the do ...

References

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