Ahadith Musalsala Riwayat Ibn Naqa
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- 559 AH
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Ahadith Musalsala Riwayat Ibn Naqa (Hadiths with Continuous Chains of Transmission as Narrated by Ibn Naqa) is a short hadith tract (juz') compiled by the Kufa-born Hanafi jurist, grammarian, and hadith scholar Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Ahmad ibn Zayd ibn Naqa (477–559 AH / 1084–1164 CE), also known as Ibn Naqid or al-Musayki . The work gathers a selection of musalsal traditions—narrations characterized by a continuous, uniform feature, verbal formula, or physical gesture repeated by every transmitter along the chain of transmission (isnad) .
Transmission and Context
The primary recorded line of transmission for this tract runs through Ibn Naqa's student Abu al-Fadl Abd al-Salam ibn Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Bakran al-Dahiri al-Kharraz, who transmitted it from Ibn Naqa . A formal audition of the text took place in Baghdad at Darb al-Aqfas along Nahr Ya'la on the city's eastern side . An earlier hearing before Ibn Naqa is also documented as having occurred in Jumada al-Ula 552 AH under the reading of the hadith scholar Ibn Shafi' al-Jili . A manuscript of the work is preserved in the al-Zahiriyya Library in Damascus within composite volume 22 (folios 59–62) .
Contents
The collection contains several reports transmitted through Ibn Naqa's teachers—prominently Abu al-Ghana'im Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Maymun al-Narsi—each exemplifying a distinct pattern of continuous transmission (tasalsul) :
- Placing the hand on the head: A hadith from Abu Hurayra stating that no one enters Paradise or is saved from Hellfire through their deeds alone except by the mercy of God, where each transmitter placed his hand upon his head while narrating .
- Uniform demonstrative phrasing: A report from Jabir ibn Abd Allah on uttering the takbir upon ascending and the tasbih upon descending, in which each narrator in the chain refers to his source with the demonstrative qualifier dhaak ("that one") .
- Creedal affirmation: A non-prophetic report tracing back to Harun al-Fudali stating that scholars in Medina and the adherents of the Sunnah denounced and declared disbelief in anyone who claimed that the Quran is created, where every transmitter successively appended: "And I say the like of that; this is the Sunnah" .
- Declaration of love: The hadith of Mu'adh ibn Jabal in which the Prophet told him: إِنِّي أُحِبُّكَ فَقُلْ ("I love you, so say [the supplication...]"), with each subsequent narrator repeating the expression of love to his student, followed by a chain-linked report regarding butter on dates .
- Clasping the hand: The hadith of Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud on the tashahhud prayer, incorporating a historical narrative involving the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid and the Kufan scholar al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Ju'fi, where each narrator clasped the hand of his student down through al-Khatib al-Baghdadi and Ibn Naqa .
- Explicit auditory reception: The hadith سِبَابُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فُسُوقٌ وَقِتَالُهُمْ كُفْرٌ ("Reviling Muslims is wickedness, and fighting them is disbelief"), transmitted with an unbroken chain using explicit auditory audition terminology (sami'tu / sami'na) at every link .
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