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Abu al-Qasim al-Manadili

Died
466 AH
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Abu al-Qasim al-Manadili (d. after 466 AH / 1074 CE) was a Basran Quran reciter, judicial witness (mu'addal), and hadith transmitter known through preserved hadith notebooks .

Life and Background

His full name was Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad, with the honorific epithets of reciter (al-muqri') and notary witness (al-mu'addal) . The occupational surname al-Manadili relates to the weaving or sale of cloths and kerchiefs (manadil) . He was active in Basra, where he studied and transmitted hadith over an exceptionally long life span; his earliest documented audition occurred in 397 AH (1006–1007 CE) when he heard dictations from Ahmad ibn Ya'qub al-Mu'addal al-Tabithi .

He was still delivering transmissions in Basra during 466 AH (1073–1074 CE) . The historian al-Dhahabi recorded his biographical entry among the obituaries of the decade 461–470 AH, placing his death around 470 AH (c. 1077–1078 CE) .

Hadith Transmission and Legacy

Al-Manadili studied under leading Basran traditionists, including Abu Umar al-Hashimi, the hadith master Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Ghassan, and Ahmad ibn Ya'qub al-Mu'addal .

He passed his narrations to several disciples, among them Abu Ja'far al-Ghitrif ibn Abd Allah al-Sa'idani, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abi Nasr al-Ushnani, and Abu Sa'id al-Riyahi . Al-Dhahabi noted the survival of two distinct hadith notebooks (juz'an) from his transmissions :

  • Juz' al-Manadili ("The Notebook of al-Manadili"), preserved via al-Ghitrif, which concludes with an extended narration on the virtues of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs . Biographical critics, including al-Dhahabi and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, noted that this concluding tradition on the Caliphs was fabricated (mawdu'), as its chain contained two unknown transmitters: Muhammad ibn Ibrahim and Ahmad ibn Zufar .
  • Ahadith al-Manadili ("Traditions of al-Manadili"), transmitted through al-Ushnani to the hadith scholar Abu Tahir al-Silafi, which formed the third part of the compilation known as al-Safinah al-Jara'idiyyah al-Kubra .

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List of Works

  • Ahadith al-Manadili

    A short hadith tract (juz') preserving prophetic traditions transmitted in Basra from several teachers, including narrations on the virtues of Hajj and Umrah, reports concerning Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and the Prophet's practices, the comfort of believers in their graves, and blessings associated with the recitation of Surah Ya-Sin.

  • Juz al-Manadili

    A short hadith notebook (juz') extracted from original source transmissions in Basra. The collection comprises narrated hadiths and concludes with an extended report concerning the virtues of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs.