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**FliveGell** · 05-13-2010, 09:45 PM

From Prof. Julian Baldick's "Imaginary Muslims: The Uwaysi Sufis of Central Asia":

One important late source for the legend of Uways is the Syrian historian Dhahabi (d. 1348). He explains that earlier writers, notably the most respectable of all Tradition-collectors, Bukhari (d. 870), had expressed doubts about pedigrees in which Uways's name appeared. Indeed, one of the founder of Islamic law, Malik of Medina (d. 796), had denied Uways's very existence. [Muhammad Dahabi, Ta'rikh al-Islam, vol. 2 (Cairo: Maktaba al-Qudsi, 1368/1949), pp. 173-5)]

05-13-2010, 09:45 PM	#1
FliveGell Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 401 Senior Member	Uways al-Qarani - a fictional character? From Prof. Julian Baldick's "Imaginary Muslims: The Uwaysi Sufis of Central Asia": One important late source for the legend of Uways is the Syrian historian Dhahabi (d. 1348). He explains that earlier writers, notably the most respectable of all Tradition-collectors, Bukhari (d. 870), had expressed doubts about pedigrees in which Uways's name appeared. Indeed, one of the founder of Islamic law, Malik of Medina (d. 796), had denied Uways's very existence. [Muhammad Dahabi, Ta'rikh al-Islam, vol. 2 (Cairo: Maktaba al-Qudsi, 1368/1949), pp. 173-5)]
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