Author name:
فلاح حسن عباس
Supervisor name:
عبد الستار نصيف جاسم العامري
Abstract:
All praise is to Allah, the Lord of the worlds and His blessings and peace upon his prophet Muhammad and his Descendants (Ahl al - Bayt). The study of "Alukuba'at Book" ( Divine Miracle Punishments) written by Ibn Abi al - Dunya is one of the significant matters in religious Islamic History. Ibn Abi al - Dunya's full name is Abdullah bin Muhammad Bin Ubaid Bin Sufyan Bin Qais, Alqurashi,.He was born in 208 H/823 A.D in Baghdad and died there(Jumada Al - Ula) in 281H/894 A.D. He is considered one of the best learned and highly respected religion teachers, (deeply spiritual man) historians and narrators in the Third Hijri Century. His contributions are wide - spread in various fields of knowledge. His wide mentality and vast thinking are distinguished. This is very vivid in his productions(books) which some of them printed and others not yet. Although he was a freedman of the Umayyads, he became the tutor of several ?Abb?sid princes and in particular of those who were later to become caliphs as al - Mu?ta?id and al - Mu?taf? because of his intelligence and fame. Ibn Abi al - Dunya's father was a man of wisdom and Hadith narrator. He taught his son (Ibn Abi al - Dunya) and supported his progress from an earlier time. Ibn Abi al - Dunya contributed in The reformation movement of the community through his writings and classifications. He wrote many books in education and piety and continued teaching generations until his death at the age of seventy on Tuesday 14th of Jumadi 281 H/894A.D. Ibn Abi Al - Dunya was a man of moderation and neutralism between the sects in his religion(Muslims). So, he combined and comprised all sects. For examples, he wrote about Ahl al - Bayt (Prophet Muhammad's representatives) , and composed many books like; "Al - Awlia" (Faithful) and their virtues, "The Virtues of Imam Ali", "The death of Imam Ali", "The Marriage of Lady Fatima", "The Death of Imam Hussein", "Ashuraa", " The Telling of Lewis Al - Qurrani" and " The Death of Ibin Ju'bair" and others. This neutralism and fairness what has made me to select this personality because we (at this present time) are in an urgent need to such a person not to encourage extremism and terrorism. In my research paper, I have focused on Ibin Abi Al - Dunya of being historian rather than social counselor or religious educator. I have chosen his book "Alukuba'at Book" ( Divine Miracles and Punishments) a field of may study for what it contains so much history narrations (Stories) of nations (The People and their Prophets) of what happened to them. These nations disobeyed their Creator (Allah) and forged His Sharia (Divine Laws). I have organized this paper into four chapters with an index and the resources. The first section of the first chapter focuses on the background of Ibn Abi Al - Dunya, his name, birth, full name, surname, early growth (education), religious sect and his death. The second section handles his life, masters(teachers), students, fame, journeys and his books. The second chapter is of three sections which, of course, deals with the method and sources of the book" Alukuba'at". The first section I describe the book ,its reasons of writing, its importance, prints(copies) and its divisions. The second section is to clarify the resources Ibn Abi al - Dunya recited from which include Quran, Holy Hadith (The Prophet's speech) and other telling. The third section is about the fundamentality and method of his book (Alukuba'at), so I identified the basis of selecting his historical matters, his recitations of verses of Quran, the recitation of holy Hadiths and his personal mentality weaving these basis together. The third chapter I have dealt with the history of Hadiths (The time Hadith was narrated) in this book because it is not chronically arranged. I have rearranged them newly depends on other narrations which this chapter called 'History Stories of Prophets'. In this chapter I focused on the stories of the Prophets Adam, Abraham and Lot (PB). This chapter includes two sections. The first one is about the Story of Adam, its reasons and the heavenly punishments and the historical narrations about it. Also the story of the prophet Noah and what included of historical narrations. The second section comprises the stories of the prophets Methuselah, Heber, Abraham and Lot and their narrations. The fourth chapter is titled as 'The Historical Stories of the prophet Jacob' and also Elephant Companions and what has been revealed of Israelites. This chapter is of two sections. The first one deals with the stories of the prophets Jacob, Joseph and Jonah. The second one is about the story of the prophet Job, its history narrations and the Israelites in it.Finally, I have studied and reviewed these stories and historical narrations compared to other resources trying hard to achieve and select the most remarkable and acceptable one. In conclusion, I have deeply dealt with the best and convincing results of what I am aiming at depending on available information.
