Samra ibn Jundab

Samra ibn Jundab al-Fazari (d. 60 AH / 680 CE) was a sahaba of Muhammad.

It was told that Samra owned a tree in an Ansari man's orchard. He would break into the orchard to watch over his tree. The owner of the orchard complained to Muhammad. Muhammad recommended to the owner that he buy the tree from Samra. Samra rejected that; and he rejected the offer of a tree in the Heavenly janna as well. The Prophet then had the tree uprooted and said to Samra, "you do harm to people".[1]

After Abu Musa conquered Khuzistan, he appointed Samra over Suk al-Ahwaz.[2]

Samra then served Muʿawiya. According to tradition, Mu'awiya hired Samra to deliver a sermon to the Syrians with a hadith claiming that Q.2:203-4 was about ʿAli; Muʿawiya paid to him 4000 dirhams for that.[3] Samra also executed 8000 Basrans by the sword.[4]

Samra had a son Sulayman. His descendent Marwan Ibn Jaʿfar b. Saʿd b. Sulayman b. Samra claimed to own Samra's last testament (waṣiʿah) to his sons:

And hear and obey Allah and His Messenger and His book and the caliphate that is based on God’s command, and the assembly of the Muslims.
...
The Messenger of God was commanding us that he prays every night ... and he was commanding us, that we pray anytime we want in the night and the day, but he commanded us to avoid sun-rise and its setting; and said that the Satan sets with it when it sets, and rises with it when it rises.
And he commanded us that we memorise all the prayers, and testified to us about the middle prayer (Q. 2), and informed us that is the Asr prayer.[5]

This is associated with a tradition from Ibn Sirin, that this epistle held "much religious knowledge".[6] Samra is also credited with many ahadith. But the Sheikhs of the Mu'tazilites and their Imams and the Hanafi ulema generally reject the hadith narrated by Samra ibn Jundab. Moreover Nadwi emphasizes this point:

"Imam Abu Hanifa said, 'The companions of the Prophet were generally pious and just. I accept every hadith with evidence narrated by them, but I do not accept the hadith whose source is Abu Huraira, Anas ibn Malik, or Samra ibn Jundab."[7]

References

  1. ↑ Abu Dawud, Sunan, Aqziyah, #3152; also, Wasa'il, Ihya Mawat, 12, #1,2,4. Translated Hamideh Elahinia, in Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Reza Mudarrisi Yazdi, Shiism in Sunnism.
  2. ↑ Abu'l-ʿAbbas Ahmad b. Jabir al-Baladhuri, KITAB FUTUH AL-BULDAN transl. Francis Clark Murgotten (1924)
  3. ↑ An-Nisaih al-Kafiya, Pg. 64
  4. ↑ Tabari, Tarikh, 5/237
  5. ↑ Abu Sulaymân Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allâh b. Aḥmad al-Rabaʿî (d. 379 / 989), Waṣâyâ al-ʿUlamâ’ (Beirut: Dâr Ibn Kathîr, 1985), v.1, 88-9, from Ibn al-Aʿrâbî from ʿAbd Allâh b. Ayyûb al-Mukharrimî. Ibn al-Aʿrâbî had quoted from it in his Muʿjam (al-Dammâm: Dâr Ibn al-Jawzî, 1997), v.4, 424, #1913. Ibn Saʿd refers to Marwan's waṣiʿah in al-Ṭabaqât al-Kubra (Beirut: Dâr Ṣâdr, 1968) v.6, 417.
  6. ↑ Ibn 'Abd al-Barr, ed. `Ali Muhammad al-Bijawi, Al-Isti`ab fi ma`rifat al-ashab (Cairo: Maktabah Nahdah, 1960), v.1, 197; perhaps quoted in Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib (Mu'assasat al-Risala, 1995), v.2, 116
  7. ↑ commentary on Muslim's Sahih, Volume IV

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