al-Ahadith al-Sitta al-Iraqiyya
- Author died
- 671 AH
- Editions
- al-Rayyān
al-Ahadith al-Sitta al-Iraqiyya (lit. 'The Six Iraqi Hadiths') is a hadith treatise by the Shafi'i hadith scholar Abu al-Muzaffar Yusuf ibn al-Hasan al-Nabulsi (603–671 AH / 1207–1272 CE) .
Author and Context
The author, Sharaf al-Din Abu al-Muzaffar Yusuf ibn al-Hasan ibn Badr ibn al-Hasan ibn Mufarrij al-Nabulsi al-Dimashqi, was originally from Nablus and was born in Damascus on 13 Muharram 603 AH . He studied hadith in Damascus under teachers including al-Qazwini, al-Husayn ibn Sasra, and Ibn al-Bann, and traveled to Baghdad, where he received transmissions from scholars such as al-Dahiri, al-Dinawari, and Abu Hafs Umar al-Suhrawardi . Al-Nabulsi later served as the head (shaykh) of Dar al-Hadith al-Nuriyya in Damascus . He died in Damascus on 11 Muharram 671 AH—though another report places his death in Dhu al-Qi'da—and was buried at his residence at the foot of Mount Qasiyun .
Content and Manuscript Tradition
The work is a concise hadith booklet (juz') compiled from narrations and chains connected to Iraqi transmitters, representing one of the author's specialized hadith extractions (takharīj) .
An autograph manuscript of the treatise, written in the author's own hand, is preserved in the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (within collective volume Majmūʿ 25, folios 22–29) .
Publication
The work was edited by Abu ʿAmmar ʿAbd Allah ibn Dayf Allah al-Shamrani and published in a first edition by Dar al-Rayyan in the United Arab Emirates in 1413 AH / 1992 CE .
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