Reviewing a Hadith Manuscript That Thought to Belong to Ali Ibn Ma’bad al-Misrī (d. 218/833)

Ali ibn Ma’bad ibn Shaddad al-Rakkī al-Misrī (d. 218/833), from Raqqa as a Hanafi scholar actualized the major scientific activities in Egypt is a little-known narrator and canonist in our day. Ali ibn Ma’bad took lessons from teachers such as al-Layth ibn Sa’d (d. 175/791), Ismāīl ibn Ja’far (d. 180/796), Muhammad al-Shaybānī (d. 189/805) and Abdullah ibn Wahb (d. 197/813). Moreover, he was the narrator of Imam Muhammad’s books entitled al-Jāmi al-Kabīr and al-Jāmi al-Saghīr. The book ‘Kitāb al-tā’at ve al-ma’siye’ that is the only text thought to belong to him has been missing. We aimed to analyze the hadiths that are written on a papyrus recorded as “Mich.Pap.D.953” in Cambridge University. We have concluded that the papyrus numbered 13 that N. Abbott scrutinized in his book called Studies in Arabic literary papyri II is the two parts of the same book. In this regard, we also researched whether this papyrus belongs to the book we’ve mentioned about. However, this papyrus might be a part of his other book that we do not know. The review of the book as a hadith fascicle that was directly written by the author will offer an insight to the reliability of narration of hadith books. The objective is to contribute to arguments in this aspect