al-Dinar min Hadith al-Mashayikh al-Kibar
- Author died
- 748 AH
- Editions
- Maktabat al-Qurʾān
al-Dinar min Hadith al-Mashayikh al-Kibar (The Dinar from the Hadiths of the Great Shaykhs) is a specialized hadith tract (juzʾ) compiled by the Damascene traditionist and historian Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi (d. 748 AH / 1348 CE) .
Overview and Content
The work belongs to the traditional genre of topical and transmission-based hadith booklets (ajzāʾ), also cited under titles such as al-Juzʾ al-mulaqqab bi-al-Dinar min hadith al-mashayikh al-kibar . In it, al-Dhahabi assembles narrations transmitted from prominent elderly scholars and masters of transmission (al-mashāyikh al-kibār), documenting their chains of narration.
Among the narrations recorded in the work is a transmission drawn from the path of the Musnad of Abd ibn Humayd regarding the ranks and rewards of the people of Paradise , as well as chains passing through earlier figures such as Ja'far ibn 'Awn .
Manuscripts and Publication
Manuscript copies of the treatise have survived in multiple library collections:
- A manuscript held at Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya in Cairo (classified under MS 1508 Hadith) .
- A manuscript preserved at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh (shelfmark 2094-3-f 107944) .
The work has been edited by Majdi al-Sayyid Ibrahim (also cited as Majdi Fathi al-Sayyid) and published by Maktabat al-Qur'an in Cairo .
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