Abu Tahir al-Silafi

Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī (;   an haifi Isfahan a shekara ta 472 bayan hijira/1079 miladiyya, ya rasu a shekara ta 576/1180 a Iskandariyya), ya kasance daya daga cikin manyan malaman hadisi a karni na sha biyu.  Ya kasance babban malamin hadisi na Shafi'i daga Isfahan wanda ya kwashe shekaru da dama yana koyarwa a madarsa 'Adiliyya' da ke birnin Iskandariyya, inda almajirai daga ko'ina cikin duniyar musulmi suke kai masa ziyara, ciki har da Al-Andalus.  Ya rayu har ya kai shekara ɗari yana da mafi guntun sarƙoƙi na duniya kuma sananne saboda girman ƙwaƙwalwarsa da daidaito. .

 Tarihin rayuwa 
Mai watsa hadisi mai daraja kuma lauya, Abu Tahir al-Silafi tun yana ƙarami ya bar garin haihuwarsa na Isfahan kuma ya yi tafiya zuwa Bagadaza don ci gaba da karatunsa. Ya sadu da Al-Kiya al-Harrasi, wanda a lokacin shi ne Müderris a cikin Nizamiya Madrasa kuma ya yi karatu a ƙarƙashinsa. Ba da daɗewa ba, ya tafi ya fara yawo a ƙasashen Musulunci yana ba da labari ga hadisai da kuma rubuta tarihin mutanen da ya ba da labari. Ya isa Iskandariya a cikin 511/117 kuma ya zauna a can. Al-Silafī ya gudanar da madrasa ta biyu da za a gina a Misira (kuma na farko Shāfi'ī wanda aka gina a Alexandria a cikin 1149 bisa ga umarnin gwamnan Alexandria na lokacin, Shāfi 'ī al-'Ādil ibn Salār, vizier ga Khalifa al-Ẓāfir. An kira shi 'Ādiliyya bayan wanda ya kafa shi, amma ya zama sananne ne a matsayin al-Silafiyya bayan malaminsa mai jagoranta.  Al-Sira al-Silifī al-Akhl, Al-Khalhān; Alibān; Alil.

 Kyauta da Dalibai 
Al-Silafi ya taimaka sosai wajen canja wurin ilimin addini daga Isfahan zuwa Iskandariya. Al-Silafi, da almajiransa, ciki har da sanannun malamai na tabaqa kamar Ibn Tahir al-Maqdisi, Abd al-Ghani al-Ma sqvi, da Abd al-Qadir al-Ruhawi, sun tattara mu'jams uku na Hadith tare da ingantaccen isnads. Sauran sanannun ɗalibansa sun haɗa da masanin hadisi Ibn al-Mufaddhal da masanin harshe da masanin tarihi, Abu al-Hajjaj al-Balawi .

 Ayyuka 
Daga cikin shahararrun ayyukansa akwai ''Mu'jam al-safar'' (The Dictionary of Travel), ƙamus na tarihin rayuwa: 'wanda ya rufe daga 511/1117 zuwa 560/1164, ana iya ɗaukar Mu'jam a matsayin ƙwarewar rayuwa a ƙarshen Fāṭimī Alexandria'.  Sauran sanannun irin waɗannan ayyukansa sun haɗa da: (The Dictionary of the scholars of Isfahan) da (The Dictionary for The Scholars of Baghdad). 

 Nazarin maɓalli 

 Rizzitano, U. "Akhbār 'an ba'ḍ Muslimī siifqilliya alladhīna tarjama la-hum Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī," Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Uni. na 'Ayn Shams, 3 (1955): shafi na 49-112
 'Abbās, I. Akhbār wa tarājim Andalusiyya al-mustakhraja min Mu 'jam al-safar li al-Silafī. Beirut, 1963
 Zaman, SM Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī al-Iṣbahānī. Rayuwarsa da aiki tare da nazarin nazarin Mu'jam al-safar. Takardar jarabawar PhD, Harvard Univ., Cambridge (Mass.), 1968
 Sa'ad da aka yi amfani da shi. Rayuwa da lokutan al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī tare da wani muhimmin bugu na wani ɓangare na Mu'jam al-safar na marubucin. Takardar jarabawar PhD, Univ. na Cambridge, 1972
 Ma 'rūf, B. A. "Mu'jam al-safar li-Abī Ṭāhir al-Silafī," al-Mawrid, 8 (1979): shafuffuka 379-383 
 Zaman, SM Mu'jam al-safar. Islamabad, 1988

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