al-Amali al-Safariyya al-Halabiyya
- Author died
- 852 AH
- Editions
- al-Maktab al-Islāmī
al-Amali al-Safariyya al-Halabiyya (The Travel Dictations of Aleppo) is a collection of hadith dictation sessions (amālī) delivered by the Shafi'i hadith scholar Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (773–852 AH / 1372–1449 CE) during his journey to Aleppo .
Context and Contents
The work, also cited in scholarly literature as al-Amali al-Halabiyya or al-Amali al-Safariyya, comprises transcripts of hadith assemblies held while Ibn Hajar was traveling through northern Syria . In these sessions, Ibn Hajar dictated prophetic traditions with their full chains of transmission (asānīd) to attending students and scholars, providing critical evaluations of the narrators, textual variants, and the overall authenticity or grading (such as ḥasan) of the transmitted chains .
Modern Editions
The text has been published in several modern editions:
- An edition edited by Hamdi Abd al-Majid al-Salafi, published by al-Maktab al-Islami in Beirut (1st ed., 1418 AH / 1997 CE) .
- Two incomplete editions: one edited by Awwad al-Khalaf and published by Mu'assasat al-Rayyan (1416 AH), and another edited by Salih al-Laham, published in the sixteenth issue of the journal Majallat al-Hikma .
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