al-Arbaun min Awali al-Mujizin
- Author died
- 816 AH
- Editions
- Maktabat al-Tawbah
al-Arbaun min Awali al-Mujizin (The Forty Hadiths from Elevated Licensors) is a collection of forty hadiths transmitted by the Shafi'i scholar Abu Bakr ibn al-Husayn al-Maraghi (727–816 AH / 1327–1414 CE) . The collection was compiled and extracted (takhrij) for him by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani .
Content and Structure
The work is also referenced under the title Arbaun Hadithan 'an Arba'in Shaykhan min 'Awali al-Mujizin (Forty Hadiths from Forty Shaykhs Among Elevated Licensors) . It follows the tradition of forty-hadith compilations (al-arba'iniyyat), focusing on narrations transmitted through teachers who granted al-Maraghi general or specific transmission licenses (ijazah) with elevated chains of transmission (isnad 'ali) .
Among the hadiths transmitted in the collection are reports documented through early compilers such as al-Tabarani and 'Abd ibn Humayd, alongside commentary on narrations such as those of al-Hasan al-Basri .
Editions
The work was edited by Muhammad Muti' al-Hafiz and published by Maktabat al-Tawbah in Riyadh in 1420 AH (1999–2000 CE) .
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