al-Awwal min Hadith Ibn Hadhlam
- Author died
- 347 AH
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- Manuscript published in the free program Jawāmi‘ al-Kalim belonging to the Islamweb website
al-Awwal min Hadith Ibn Hadhlam (The First Part of the Hadith of Ibn Hadhlam), also known as Mashyakhat Ibn Hadhlam or Hadith Ibn Hadhlam 'an Shuyukhih, is a hadith compilation (juz') assembled by the Damascene judge and traditionist Ahmad ibn Sulayman ibn Hadhlam (d. 347 AH / 958 CE), recording prophetic traditions transmitted from his principal teachers .
Background and Transmission
The compiler, Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Sulayman ibn Ayyub ibn Abd Allah ibn Hadhlam al-Asadi, served as a judge in Damascus and was an esteemed notary (mu'addil) in the city . He was noted as the last scholar in the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus to maintain a regular teaching circle devoted to the legal school of al-Awza'i .
Ibn Hadhlam dictated these narrations in Damascus on a Friday in Safar 341 AH . The text was preserved and transmitted primarily through his disciple Abu Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ibn Uthman ibn Abi Nasr al-Tamimi (known as Ibn Abi Nasr) . From Ibn Abi Nasr, the part was transmitted jointly by Abu Muhammad Abd al-Aziz ibn Ahmad al-Jubba'i and Abu al-Fadl al-Muslim ibn Ahmad al-Ka'ki to the scholar Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Madini .
Structure and Contents
The booklet comprises 58 numbered traditions organized around the narrations Ibn Hadhlam received from three primary authorities :
- Narrations of Abu Imran Musa ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Awf al-Muzani (Hadiths 1–26): Ibn Hadhlam transmits through him chains going back to Abu Ja'far Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Nufayli from Sufyan ibn Uyayna .
- Narrations of Abu Zur'ah al-Dimashqi (Hadiths 27–39 and 49–58): Traditions received from the Syrian traditionist Abu Zur'ah Abd al-Rahman ibn Amr al-Dimashqi, transmitting from scholars such as Abu al-Yaman and Abu Nu'aym al-Fadl ibn Dukayn .
- Narrations of his father, Sulayman ibn Ayyub (Hadiths 40–48): Traditions received through his father from Sulayman ibn Abd al-Rahman, from Isma'il ibn Ayyash .
The narrations encompass various legal and theological subjects, including the etiquette of entering mosques and voluntary prayer, ritual purity and tanning hides, rites of pilgrimage (hajj), rules governing clothing, the prohibition of wailing over the deceased, honest commercial transactions, the virtues and supplications concerning individual Companions (such as Umar ibn al-Khattab and Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas), and eschatological portents (ashrat al-sa'ah) .
Manuscripts and Editions
Manuscripts of the text are preserved in multiple collections, including the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (Majmu' 101), the Chester Beatty Library (MS 3495, copied in 738 AH), and the Süleymaniye Library .
The booklet has been printed in several scholarly editions, including an edition edited by Muhammad Ziyad Umar Tuklah published by Maktabat al-Obeikan in Riyadh (1421 AH / 2001 CE) within the compilation Jamharat al-Ajza' al-Hadithiyya, and by al-Maktaba al-Asriyya in Sidon and Beirut (1433 AH / 2012 CE) within the collection Ahadith al-Shuyukh al-Kibar .
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