Asad bin Moosa bin Ibraaheem, Abu Sa’eed al-Amwi

Name:

أسد بن موسى بن إبراهيم بن الوليد بن عبد الملك بن مروان بن الحكم القرشى الأموى المصرى ، أسد السنة

Asad bin Moosa bin Ibraaheem bin al-Waleed bin Abdul Malik bin Marwaan bin al-Hakam al-Qurashi al-Amwi al-Misri, Asad us-Sunnah

Tabaqah: 9 - From the minor Taba Taabi'een

Birth: 132 H in Egypt and it is said in Basrah

Death: 212 H

Narrated by: Al-Bukhaari in Ta'leeq form – Abu Dawood – Nasaa'ee

Teachers: Shu’bah bin al-Hajjaaj, Shaybaan an-Nahwi, Abdur Rahmaan al-Mas’oodi, Yoonus bin Abi Ishaaq, Ibn Abi Dhi’b, Fudayl bin Marzooq, Hammaad bin Salamah, Abdul Azeez bin al-Maajishoon, Aafiyah bin Yazeed al-Qaadhi, Jareer bin Abdul Hameed and others.

Students: Ahmed bin Saalih, Abdul Malik bin Habeeb al-Faqeeh, Rabee’ bin Sulemaan al-Muraadi, Rabee’ bin Sulemaan al-Jayzee, His son Sa’eed bin Asad, Al-Miqdaam bin Dawood ar-Ru’aynee, Abu Yazeed bin Yoosuf bin Yazeed al-Qaraateesi, and others.

Status: Thiqah Haafidh

Opinions of Ahl ul-Jarh wat Ta’deel:

Those who praised him:

1-    Imaam Abu Dawood as-Sijistaani narrated from Imaam Ahmed bin Hanbal (D. 241) saying:

“سمعت أحمد ذكر أسد بن موسى، فذكره بخير”

“I heard Ahmed, he mentioned Asad bin Moosa and remembered him with goodness”

[ Su'aalaat Abi Dawood lil Imaam Ahmed (258)]

2-    Imaam Muhammad bin Ismaa’eel al-Bukhaari (D. 256) said:

“هُوَ مَشْهُوْرُ الحَدِيْثِ، يُقَال لَهُ: أَسَدُ السُّنَّةِ”

“He is famous in hadeeth and it is said he is: the lion of Sunnah”

[ Taareekh al-Kabeer by al-Bukhaari (2/49)]

Imaam Dhahabi said: “And Bukhaari (also) took support from him (in his Saheeh)”

[Siyar A’laam al-Nabula: 10/163]

3-    Imaam Abu al-Hasan al-Ijlee (D. 261) said:

“ثقة وكان صاحب سنة”

“Thiqah, and he was a man of Sunnah”

[ Ath-Thiqaat by al-Ijlee (1/62 T. 76)]

4-    Imaam Abu Bakr al-Bazzaar (D. 313) said:

“هُو ثِقَةٌ”

“He is Thiqah”

[ Musnad al-Bazzaar (10/55 H. 4119)]

5-    Imaam Abu Sa’eed bin Yoonus al-Misri (D. 347) said:

“ثقة”

“Thiqah”

[ Taareekh Misr by Ibn Yoonus al-Misri with reference from Ikmaal Tahdheeb al-Kamaal (2/126)]

6-    Imaam Ibn Hibbaan (D. 354) mentioned him in Kitaab ath-Thiqaat (8/136 T. 12616) and he also narrated from him in his Saheeh.

7-    Imaam Ibn Khuzaymah (D. 311) narrated from him in his Saheeh.

8-    Imaam Abu Abdullah al-Haakim al-Neesaaboori (D. 405) authenticated the chains of several of his narrations in al-Mustadrak Ala as-Saheehayn.

9-    Imaam Shams ud-Deen adh-Dhahabi (D. 748) said:

“هُوَ الإِمَامُ، الحَافِظُ، الثِّقَةُ، ذُو التَّصَانِيْفِ”

“He is al-Imaam, al-Haafidh, ath-Thiqah, possessor of books”

[ Siyar A’laam al-Nabula (10/162)]

In Meezaan al-I’tidaal (1/207), Imaam Dhahabi said:

“وقد استشهد به البخاري، واحتج به النسائي وأبو داود، وما علمت به بأسا إلا أن ابن حزم ذكره في كتاب الصيد فقال: منكر الحديث”

“Indeed Al-Bukhaari has taken support from him (in his Saheeh), and Nasaa’ee and Abu Dawood have taken hujjah from him, and I do not know anything wrong in him except that Ibn Hazm has mentioned him in Kitaab as-Sayd and said: Munkar ul-Hadeeth”

Imaam Dhahabi also mentioned him in “Man Tukullima Feehi Wahuwa Muwththaq” (1/43)

10-          Haafidh Ibn Hajar al-Asqalaani (D. 852) said:

“صدوق يغرب”

“Sadooq, narrates Ghareeb narrations”

[ Taqreeb at-Tahdheeb (399)]

In Hadi us-Saari (2/400), Ibn Hajar said:

“أسد بن موسى الأموي المعروف بأسد السنة وثقوه”

“Asad bin Moosa al-Umawi famously known as Asad us-Sunnah, they have declared him Thiqah”

Those who criticized him:

1-    Haafidh Abdul Haqq al-Ashbaylee (D. 581) said:

“لا يحتج به عندهم”

“Evidence is not taken from him according to them”

[ Al-Ahkaam al-Wusta with reference from Ikmaal Tahdheeb al-Kamaal (2/126)]

2-    Imaam Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi (D. 456) said in Kitaab as-Sayd:

“هو منكر الحديث ضعيف”

“He is Munkar ul-Hadeeth, Da’eef”

Imaam Dhahabi replied Ibn Hazm’s Jarh saying:

“وهذا تضعيف مردود”

“And this weakening is rejected”

[Meezaan al-I’tidaal: 1/207]

A Muta’assib Hanafi and a chief innovator of his time, Zaahid al-Kawthaari merely rejected Asad bin Moosa based on the weakening of Imaam Ibn Hazm. Just because this narrator was present in a narration which did not favor the Hanafi views, Zaahid al-Kawthaari went ahead and declared him Da’eef based only on one testimony and ignored all the other obvious authentications!!

Such is the sincerity of these people towards the Deen of Allaah! We seek Allaah’s refuge from this deceptive behavior!

Conclusion:

Asad bin Moosa is Thiqah.