al-Ahadith allati saqatat min matbu al-Mujam al-Awsat lil-Tabarani
- Author died
- 360 AH
- Editions
- Majallat Markaz al-Khidmah lil-Istisharat al-Bahthiyyah wal-Lughat, Kulliyat al-Adab - Jami'at al-Minufiyyah
al-Ahadith allati saqatat min matbu al-Mujam al-Awsat lil-Tabarani (The Hadiths That Were Omitted from the Printed Edition of al-Muʿjam al-Awsat by al-Tabarani) is a contemporary monograph of hadith rectification (istidrāk) compiled by Saʿd ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Humayyid (dated 23 Muharram 1439 AH / October 2017 CE in Riyadh) . It gathers and documents the hadiths missing from the published editions of al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, a major dictionary compiled by Abu al-Qasim al-Tabarani (d. 360 AH / 971 CE) .
Background and Purpose
Al-Muʿjam al-Awsat was published in three modern editions: one edited by Mahmud al-Tahhan, a second edited by Tariq ʿIwad Allah and ʿAbd al-Muhsin al-Husayni, and a third edited by Ayman Salih Shaʿban and Sayyid Ahmad Ismaʿil . The editors relied on a manuscript reproduction that lacked four folios (eight pages) . While the content of one missing folio was subsequently supplied from an alternative manuscript, the other three folios were preserved in a unique manuscript copy, resulting in the omission of forty-six hadiths from the printed text . Al-Humayyid compiled this supplement to recover and document these omitted narrations as part of the tradition of rectifying omissions and textual defects in Islamic scholarship .
Scope and Method
The monograph collects forty-six omitted hadiths :
- Six of the forty-six hadiths suffered partial omissions because they fell across the margins at the start or finish of the missing leaves . For instance, the first hadith had only its opening word (ḥaddathanā) preserved in the printed edition, whereas the forty-sixth hadith had only its transmission formula and al-Tabarani’s direct teacher (ʿAmr ibn Hazim al-Dimashqi) omitted .
- Al-Humayyid marked the boundaries of each omission explicitly . He refrained from full takhrīj and grading for every entry, noting that the printed base edition—which contains 9,489 hadiths—did not carry extensive takhrīj .
- To verify the recovered text, he cross-referenced extra-canonical narrations (zawāʾid) with Majmaʿ al-Bahrayn and Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid by Nur al-Din al-Haythami, and checked parallel chains in other works of al-Tabarani, such as al-Muʿjam al-Kabir, al-Muʿjam al-Saghir, and Musnad al-Shamiyyin .
- He also corroborated narrations through other scholars transmitting via al-Tabarani’s chains, including Abu Nu'aym al-Isbahani in Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ, al-Khatib al-Baghdadi in Tarikh Baghdad, Abu Isma'il al-Harawi in Dhamm al-Kalam, al-Shajari in his Amali, Abu Tahir al-Silafi in al-Mashyakha al-Baghdadiyya, Ibn 'Asakir in Tarikh Dimashq, and Yusuf ibn al-Zaki al-Mizzi in Tahdhib al-Kamal .
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