-Thaqalayn is main issue if this article to know whether it was qouted in the Sunni books not.
Who quoted the Hadith about Thaqalayn?
Who quoted the Hadith about Thaqalayn among the Sunnis? (PART ONE)
Hadith Thaqalayn; According to Muslim historians at least 36 prominent scholars among the Sunnis talked about the Hadith of Thaqalayn around the second century;
Who quoted the Hadith about Thaqalayn 2
The names are as below:
1. Abu Ishaq Subai (Died in the year 129 A.H)
2. Abu Hayyan Taini (Died in the year 145 A.H) and others…
Those quoted Hadith of Thaqalayn in the third century from Sunnis, are almost 69 as follows;
1. Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, (Died in the year 241 A.H)1
2. Abdullah Ibn Abdul-Rahman Darami, (Died in the year 255 A.H)2
3. Muhammad ibn Ismail Bukhari, (Died in the year 256 A.H)3
4. Muhammad Ibn Yahya Bilazari, (died in the 278 A.H)4
7. Sulaiman Ibn Ash’aath Sajistani, (Died in the year 275 A.H)5
10. Muhammad Ibn Ali Abu Abdullah Hakim Tirmizi, (Died in the year 287 A.H)6 and others….
The Sunni scholars approximately 38 wrote the Hadith of Thaqalayn in the 4th century and the names are as follows:
1.Ahmad Ibn Shu’aib Nisai, (Died in the year 303 A.H)7
2. Abdullah Ibn Uday Jurjani, (Died in the year 365 A.H)8
3. Hafiz Abul Qasim Tabrani (Died in the year 360 A.H)9
4. Abu Jafar Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Salamah (Died in the year 321 A.H)10
5. Abu Manthur Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Azhar Azhari, (Died in the year 370)11
6. Abu Umar Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Abd Rabbah Qurtabi (Died in the year 328 A.H)12
7. Ibn Awanah Yaqub Ibn Esfaraini (Died in the year 316 A.H)13etc…...
The chain of those who quoted Hadith Thaqalayn in the fifth century are 21 narrators, these are their names;
1. Abu Bakr Khatib Baghdadi (In the year 463 A.H died)
2. Abu Abdullah Humaidi (In the year 488 A.H. died)14
3. Ibn al-mughazili Shafi’i (In the year 483 A.H died )15
4. Ahmad Ibn Hussain Ibn Ali Baihaqi (In the year 463 A.H died) 16etc…
23persons of the Sunnite elite and researchers who quoted and wrote the Thaqalayn Hadith in the 6th century have died,three names of them are as follows just :
1. Jarallah Zimakhshari, (In the year 538 A.H died)17
2. Abu Muhammad Husain Masud Baghawi (in the year 516 A.H died)18
3. Hafiz Abul Qasim Ibn Asakir Shafi’i (In the year 571 A.H)19 and
4. etc…
Refrences:
[1] Al-Tabaqat al- Kubra, vol. 2, p. 194.
[2] Musnad Ahmad, vol. 1, p. 96.
[3] Al-Tarikh al-Saghir, vol. 3, p. 96.
[4].Ansab al-Ashraf, vol. 1, p. 35.
[7] Sunan Nisai; Khasa’is, p. 21.
[8] Al-Kamil Fi Zu'afa’ al-Rijal, vol. 6, p. 2078.
[9] Al-Mu'jam al-Saghir, vol. 1, p. 131, al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, vol. 3, p. 63.
[10] Mushkil al-Athar, vol. 2, p. 307.
[11] Tahzib al-Lughat, vol. 9, p. 78.
[12] Al-‘Aqd al-Farid, vol. 2, p. 158.
[14] Al-Jam' Bain al-Sahihain.
[15] Manaqib Amir al-Muminin (a.s.), p. 234.
[16] Al-Sunan al-Kubra, vol. 2, p. 148.
[17] Al- Fa’iq Fi Gharib al-Hadith, vol. 1, p. 170.
[18] Masabih al-Sunnah, vol. 2, p. 205.
[19] Tarikh Damishq, vol. 1, p. 45.