al-Arbaeen al-Musalsala al-Mutabayina al-Asanid li-Yusuf ibn Abd al-Hadi
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al-Arbaeen al-Musalsala al-Mutabayina al-Asanid (الأربعين المسلسلة المتباينة الأسانيد) is a specialized hadith collection compiled by the Hanbali scholar Ibn al-Mubarrad (Yusuf ibn Abd al-Hadi, 840–909 AH / 1436–1503 CE) . The work brings together forty prophetic traditions that simultaneously feature chained transmissions (musalsal) and mutually distinct transmission routes (mutabayina al-asanid) .
Purpose and Scope
In the opening passage of the text, Ibn al-Mubarrad states that he compiled these traditions with mutually divergent and chained chains of transmission for the benefit of students of hadith, praying that God grant benefit through them to himself and to all Muslims . The collection forms part of his broader output in the forty-hadith (arba‘iniyyat) and musalsalat genres .
Structure and Method
The work arranges individual narrations such that each hadith exhibits a particular continuous transmission feature across its chain of narrators, while maintaining distinct routes of transmission from the other narrations :
- The second hadith is transmitted through a continuous chain where the narrators share the first name Muhammad .
- The third hadith is transmitted through a chain of narrators named Ahmad .
- The fourth hadith is transmitted through a chain where each narrator shares the kunya Abu Bakr .
- The fifth hadith is transmitted through narrators named Umar, delivering the narration: إِنَّمَا الأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّاتِ ("Actions are judged only by intentions") .
- The seventh hadith is transmitted through a continuous line of judges (qudah) .
- Other narrations exhibit transmission patterns through fathers or specific kunyas .
Manuscript Preservation
The work is preserved in manuscript form in the Umariyya collections at al-Maktaba al-Zahiriyya in Damascus under compilation number 3794 (collection 58, spanning folios 104–119 or 104–132, approximately 29 pages), preserved in the author's own handwriting .
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