This name-calling...

This name-calling, arising from a level of character appropriate to someone who was not at Hisham's level, is quite inconceivable for him. On the basis of all this, and for other reasons, I am con- vinced that Hisham, in this book of his, is refuting a person other than Mu’minu’t-Taq to whom this nickname ‘Shaytanu’t- Taq' was given before Mu’minu 't-Taq.

This man's adversity towards the Imamiyyah reached a point where Hisham did not find it objectionable to nickname him with this sort of disgrace- ful nickname. However, the adversaries of the Imamiyyah took the nickname out of context, and directed it at Mu’minu’t-Taq, because he lived in Taq, in the region of Kufah.

He was called 'at-Taqi' or ‘Sahibu’t-Taq'.[^13] The original holder of the nick- name has been neglected to the point where we have forgotten him and this sort of obscurity came to pass. Another piece of evidence which shows that this nickname was not only applied to Mu’minu’t-Taq is that al-Khatib gives the biography of a non-Imami narrator, and says: "Ahmad ibn Harun, known as Shaytanu’t-Taq, from the people of Surra- man-ra’a."[^14] [^1]: Kitabu 'r-radd ‘ala Hisham al-Jawaliqi.

at-Tusi, al-Fihrist, p.204; an- Najashi, p.304; Ibnu 'n-Nadim, p.224; Ma‘alimu 'l-‘ulama’, p.115; Majma‘u 'r-rijal, vol.6, pp.232, 233; Idahu 'l-maknun, vol.2, p.298; Hadiyyatu 'l-‘arifin, vol.2, p.508; adh-Dhari‘ah, vol.10, p.237. [^2]: at-Tusi, p.204; an-Najashi, p. 305; Ibnu 'n-Nadim, p.224; Ma‘alimu 'l-‘ulama’, p.115; Majma‘u 'r-rijal, vol.6, pp.233, 234; Hadiyyatu 'l-‘arifin, vol.2, p.507; adh-Dhari‘ah, vol.10, p.203.

[^3]: al-Kishshi, p.185; al-Barqi, ar-Rijal, p.17; al-Mufid, al-lkhtisas, p.204; at-Tusi, al-Fihrist, p.157; ar-Rijal, p.359; an-Najashi, p.228; Ibn Shahrashub,Ma‘alimu 'l-‘ulama’, p.115. [^4]: Ibnu 'n-Nadim, p.224; adh-Dhahabi, Siyar a‘lami 'n-nubala’, vol.10, pp.553-4; as-Safadi, al-Wafi bi 'l-wafayat, vol.4, p.104; Ibn Hajar, Lisanu 'l- mizan, vol.5, p.300; ash-Shahristani, al-Milal wa 'n-nihal, vol.1, p.186. [^5]: at-Tusi, al-Fihrist, p.222; ar-Rijal, p.302; Majma‘u 'r-rijal, vol.6, p.7.

[^6]: See al-Fihrist, Tajaddud ed., appendix, p.224, al-Istiqamah ed., p.258. [^7]: Lisanu 'l-mizan, vol.5, pp.300-1. [^8]: al-Kishshi, p.282; al-Bihar, vol.47, p.262. And in another hadith, al- Kishshi, pp.275-7; al-Bihar, vol.47, pp.407-8. [^9]: al-Kishshi, p.271. [^10]: al-Ihtijaj, vol.2, p.140; al-Bihar, vol.46, p.180. [^11]: al-Kishshi, pp.186-8 – in three hadith; al-Bihar, vol.47, pp.405-6.