Ahadith Abi Abd Allah al-Razi
- Author died
- 525 AH
- Editions
- A manuscript published in the free program 'Jawami' al-Kalim' affiliated with Islamweb
Ahadith Abi Abd Allah al-Razi (Arabic: أحاديث أبي عبد الله الرازي) is a collection of hadith transmissions and audition records of the Egyptian scholar Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Hattab al-Razi (d. 525 AH / 1130 CE), extracted and compiled by the hadith master Abu Tahir al-Silafi (d. 576 AH) .
Composition and Scope
The collection represents the transmissions of Abu Abd Allah al-Razi, a Shafi'i jurist who served as a primary transmitter of Egypt (musnid al-Diyar al-Misriyya) . Al-Silafi gathered and selected these narrations from al-Razi's auditions, structuring his material across specialized compilations, most notably his Mashyakha (scholarly directory) and his Sudasiyyat (six-link narrations) .
The Mashyakha contains reports through forty-six teachers from whom al-Razi heard hadith and the Quran, encompassing scholars residing in Egypt and travelers visiting it . Al-Silafi completed its selection at Alexandria in 512 AH . The Sudasiyyat consists of high-chained traditions containing six intermediaries between the transmitter and the Prophet ﷺ, selected from what al-Razi had heard from his teachers . Among the teachers whose narrations appear in his collections are his father Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn al-Hattab al-Razi (d. 491 AH), Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Umar ibn Himsah al-Harrani, and Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Salama al-Fahmi .
Transmission and Reception
The work circulated widely among traditionists through al-Silafi's direct reading to al-Razi in Alexandria . It was transmitted to Andalusian and North African scholars, including Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Khayr al-Ishbili (d. 575 AH), who documented receiving the Sudasiyyat both by written authorization from al-Silafi and through Andalusian scholars who had heard the collection read before al-Razi by al-Silafi . Later scholars who cited and relied on al-Razi's transmissions and collections include Ibn Nuqta, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, and Murtada al-Zabidi, who recorded owning manuscript copies of both the Mashyakha and the Sudasiyyat .
Manuscripts and Editions
A manuscript of al-Sudasiyyat is preserved at the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (Majmu' 73, ff. 11–21) . Mashyakhat Ibn al-Hattab al-Razi was published in Damascus in 1970 and has also been issued in modern scholarly editions .
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