al-Ahadith al-Tisaaiyya li-Ibn Jamaa
- Author died
- 733 AH
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- al-Bayān
al-Ahadith al-Tisaaiyya li-Ibn Jamaa (Arabic: الأحاديث التساعية لابن جماعة, lit. 'The Nine-Link Hadiths of Ibn Jama'ah') is a hadith compilation compiled by the Shafi'i jurist and chief judge Badr al-Din Ibn Jama'ah (639–733 AH / 1241–1333 CE) . It belongs to the forty-hadith (arba'un) genre and focuses on traditions transmitted through elevated chains containing nine narrators between the author and the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ .
Title and Composition
The book is recorded in biographical and bibliographical registers under several titles, most notably al-Arba'un al-tisa'iyyat al-isnad al-mukhraja 'an thalathata 'ashara shaykhan min ahl al-sidad (Arabic: الأربعون التساعية الإسناد المخرجة عن ثلاثة عشر شيخا من أهل السداد, 'The Forty Hadiths with Nine-Tiered Chains Extracted from Thirteen Upright Teachers') as well as al-Arba'un al-tisa'iyya .
Ibn Jama'ah extracted the collection for himself (takhrijuhu li-nafsihi) from his own received transmissions, selecting forty hadiths received through thirteen of his prominent teachers . The defining methodological feature of the work is elevation of transmission ('uluww al-isnad), specifically featuring chains consisting of nine intermediaries (tisa'iyyat) .
Transmission and Reception
The collection was transmitted by Ibn Jama'ah to his students across multiple centers:
- Ibn Jabir al-Wadi'ashi documented in his catalog (Barnamaj) that he heard the entire work directly from Ibn Jama'ah at the author's residences in Cairo and Old Cairo (Misr) .
- Siraj al-Din al-Qazwini recorded in his Mashyakha that he audited a portion containing the first twenty hadiths of the compilation directly from Ibn Jama'ah at a hospice (ribat) adjacent to Jamrat al-'Aqaba in Mina, Mecca, during the pilgrimage season on the 11th of Dhu al-Hijjah 719 AH (the Day of al-Qarr), in a session read by Muhyi al-Din al-Maqrizi .
The book continued to circulate in subsequent generations through hadith networks and was documented in biographical indexes and transmission registers, including Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Rudani's Silat al-khalaf bi-mawsul al-salaf .
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