Sitt al-Qudat
- Died
- 758 AH
- Born in
- Nablus
Sitt al-Qudat (691–758 AH / 1292–1357 CE) was a Palestinian Hanbali hadith scholar and transmitter (musnida) based in Nablus and Damascus .
Name and Background
Her personal name was Maryam, and she bore the kunya Umm Muhammad, while Sitt al-Qudat was her honorific title . Her full lineage is traced as Maryam bint Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd al-Mun'im ibn Ni'mah ibn Sultan ibn Surur ibn Rafi' ibn Hasan ibn Ja'far al-Nabulsiya . She was born in Nablus in 691 AH, though a variant report places her birth in 691 or 692 AH, and another source mentions 721 AH .
She was the sister of the Hanafi scholar Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Adhra'i al-Qahiri (738–805 AH / 1337–1403 CE) . She married Abd al-Qadir ibn Uthman al-Ja'fari, and bore him a son, the scholar Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Abd al-Qadir (d. 797 AH / 1395 CE) .
Scholarly Activity and Transmission
Sitt al-Qudat studied hadith and heard transmissions directly from Abu al-Fadl Ahmad ibn Hibat Allah ibn Asakir . She transmitted hadith extensively across Nablus, Damascus, and other localities, narrating from numerous authorities . Among those who received narrations and formal transmission licenses (ijaza) from her was her son, Shams al-Din Muhammad . Later scholars recognized her authoritative chains of transmission; notably, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani compiled an index of her transmissions titled Mu'jam al-Shaykha Maryam .
Death
Sitt al-Qudat died in Nablus in the month of al-Muharram, 758 AH (1357 CE) .
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List of Works
Musnad Amat Allah Maryam is a collection of hadith transmissions preserved as an individual hadith part (juz'). The surviving text represents a single part extracted from an original twenty-four-part musnad and contains thirteen narrations accompanied by their chains of transmission, addressing various legal and doctrinal topics.