Musafir Haji
- Died
- 420 AH
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Musafir ibn Muhammad ibn Haji al-Dimashqi (d. 420 AH / 1029 CE, or fl. 753 AH / 1352 CE) was a Syrian hadith scholar associated with Damascus, known for his compilations in the forty-hadith genre.
Identity and Chronology
His full recorded name is Musafir ibn Muhammad ibn Haji, bearing the regional affiliation al-Dimashqi. Later bibliographical records cite his death date as 420 AH (1029 CE), referring to him with the title of imam. However, the colophon of his own work, al-Arbaʿūn al-Buldāniyyah (The Forty Hadiths of Various Cities), records that he completed its composition in early Rabiʿ al-Akhar 753 AH (May 1352 CE).
Scholarly Activity
In the transmission of hadith, he narrated by dictation from teachers such as Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr ibn Yusuf al-Farghani. His scholarly work focused on thematic and regional forty-hadith compilations, including al-Arbaʿūn al-Buldāniyyah and Kitāb al-Arbaʿīn fī Faḍāʾil Dhikr Rabb al-ʿĀlamīn (The Forty Hadiths on the Virtues of Remembering the Lord of the Worlds).
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List of Works
al-Arbaun al-Buldaniyya is a hadith compilation belonging to the forty-hadith and topographical genres. It brings together forty prophetic traditions narrated by forty Companions through forty prominent scholars across forty cities in the Islamic world, with each tradition presented alongside its full chain of transmission.
Kitab al-Arbaeen fi Fadail Dhikr Rabb al-Alamin is a thematic hadith collection centered on the merits and virtues of the remembrance of God (dhikr). Also titled Wasa'il al-Mawla fi Dhikr al-Mawla, the work presents forty sequentially arranged prophetic traditions supplied with their complete chains of narration.