al-Arbaun al-Mustakhraja min al-Sihah min Riwayat al-Muhammadin
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- 537 AH
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- مخطوط نُشر في برنامج جوامع الكلم المجاني التابع لموقع الشبكة الإسلامية
al-Arbaun al-Mustakhraja min al-Sihah min Riwayat al-Muhammadin (The Forty Extracted from the Authentic Collections from the Narrations of the Muhammads) is a specialized hadith collection compiled by the hadith transmitter Abu al-Mahasin al-Tabasi (d. 537 AH / 1142–1143 CE) .
Background and Structure
The work belongs to the traditional forty-hadith (al-arba‘iniyyat) genre, specifically structured around interconnected (musalsal) chains of transmission (isnad) . Abu al-Mahasin ‘Abd al-Razzaq ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Nasr al-Tabasi compiled the collection for the jurist and hadith master Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn al-Fadl al-Farawi (d. 530 AH / 1136 CE) .
The primary feature of the collection is that every narrator in the upper tiers of the transmission chain shares the given name Muhammad . In the opening narration, for example, the chain passes through:
- Muhammad ibn al-Fadl al-Farawi, reporting from:
- Muhammad ibn ‘Ali al-Khabbazi and Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Hafsi, from:
- Muhammad ibn al-Makki al-Kushmihani, from:
- Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Firabri, from:
- Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari, from:
- Muhammad ibn Bashshar (known as Bundar), from:
- Muhammad ibn Ja‘far (known as Ghundar) .
The core text contains forty authentic narrations traced back through these uniform chains . In manuscript tradition, the text concludes with an additional narration outside the forty sharing the same naming constraint, compiled by al-Hasan ibn Mas‘ud ibn al-Wazir al-Dimashqi .
Transmission and Manuscripts
The compilation was transmitted directly from al-Farawi by figures such as Abu Tahir Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Arghandi and Abu al-Majd Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Qazwini . Later scholars recorded their chains of transmission to the work, including Siraj al-Din al-Qazwini in his Mashyakha, where he documented multiple pathways going back to al-Farawi through Abu Sa‘d ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Umar al-Saffar and Ibn al-Sa'i .
Manuscript copies of the work have survived in collections including the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (such as MS 3797 / Majmu‘ 61, copied in 621 AH, and MS 348) .
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