al-Ahadith al-Eidiyya al-Musalsala lil-Salafi
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- 576 AH
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al-Ahadith al-Eidiyya al-Musalsala (The Interlinked Eid Traditions) is a specialized hadith tract (juzʾ) compiled by the hadith scholar Abu Tahir al-Silafi (d. 576 AH / 1180 CE) collecting interconnected (musalsal) narrations pertaining to the two Eid festivals .
Subject and Content
The work belongs to the genre of musalsal literature, in which each narrator in the chain of transmission shares a specific circumstantial trait or temporal setting during transmission . In this tract, the narrators transmit the traditions on the day of Eid (Eid al-Fitr or Eid al-Adha), specifically situated before, between, or after the Eid prayer and its sermon .
The tract contains thirteen chains of transmission (isnads) :
- The first twelve narrations transmit variations of the Prophet's statement delivered on the day of Eid following the prayer, permitting the congregation either to stay for the sermon or to depart: أيها الناس قد أصبتم خيرًا كثيرًا، فمن أحب أن ينصرف فلينصرف، ومن أحب أن يقيم حتى يسمع الخطبة فليقم ("O people, you have attained much good; whoever wishes to depart may depart, and whoever wishes to stay until hearing the sermon may stay") . The majority of these chains go back through Ibn Abbas, while one goes back through Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas .
- The thirteenth and concluding narration ends with a distinct prophetic tradition transmitted on the day of Eid: من قرأ القرآن فكأنما شافهته به ("Whoever recites the Quran, it is as if I addressed him directly with it"), followed by the recitation of the verse لأنذركم به ومن بلغ .
Transmission and Publication
Al-Silafi dictated the collection to his students, including Abu al-Fadl Isma'il ibn Ahmad al-'Iraqi and Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab ibn Zafir al-Qurashi, who transmitted it at the Eid prayer-ground (musalla) of Alexandria . It was heard from al-'Iraqi by Mahasin ibn Muhammad ibn Muslim al-Harrani, who endowed the manuscript copy to Dar al-Hadith al-Diya'iyya on Mount Qasiyun in Damascus .
The text was edited by Muhammad ibn Turki al-Turki, with an introduction by Ahmad Ma'bad, and published in a single compendium by Dar al-Watan in Riyadh (1420 AH / 1999 CE) alongside two other tracts on the same subject: 'Illat al-hadith al-musalsal fi yawm al-'idayn by Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Yusuf al-Jurjani (d. 489 AH) and Musalsal al-'idayn by Yahya ibn Abi Mansur al-Sayrafi al-Harrani (d. 678 AH) .
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