Ahadith Muntaqah fi Gharaib Alfaz Rasul Allah Mimma Yahtaj ila Istimalihi
- Author died
- 374 AH
- Editions
- Manuscript published in the free Jawāmi‘ al-Kalim program affiliated with Islamweb
Ahadith Muntaqah fi Gharaib Alfaz Rasul Allah Mimma Yahtaj ila Istimalihi (Selected Hadiths on Rare Expressions of the Messenger of Allah that One Needs to Employ) is a hadith booklet (juz') authored by the hadith scholar Abu al-Fath al-Azdi (d. 374 AH / 984 CE) .
Authorship and Transmission
The collection was selected by the jurist Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Abi al-Fath ibn Abd Allah ibn Farghan from the narrations of Abu al-Fath al-Azdi and Abu Hashim al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn al-Faraj al-Haddad al-Bazzaz . It was transmitted through Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Baqi ibn Tawq al-Taghlibi, and from him by his maternal grandson, the Chief Judge Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Qasim al-Shahrazuri .
A surviving chain of audition (sama') documents that Abu al-Thana' Mahmud ibn Abd al-Latif ibn Sima heard the text read on Monday, 18 Ramadan 573 AH, before the Chief Judge Sharaf al-Din Abu Sa'd Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Hibat Allah ibn Abi Asrun, as recited by Abu Ja'far al-Qurtubi from Ibn Tawq al-Taghlibi . The text is also documented in later transmission compilations, including the program of al-Wadi Ashi .
Content and Method
The work comprises a compilation of prophetic traditions with complete chains of transmission (asand), narrated by Abu al-Fath al-Azdi from his prominent teachers, including Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi, Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Abu Ya'la al-Mawsili, and Muhammad ibn Bishran . The narrated reports address various ethical, religious, and behavioral exhortations—such as the virtues of righteous companionship, the consequences of unlawfully acquired wealth, the remembrance of God, honoring parents, and accepting apologies—highlighting uncommon phraseology (gharaib al-alfaz) and occasionally noting slight variations in the transmission chains .
Manuscripts
A manuscript copy is preserved in the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus as part of the Umariyya collections (MS 79, item 9, folios 113–116; cataloged also as ff. 112a–115b), bearing an audition record dated 571 AH .
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