al-Dua - al-Muhamili
- Author died
- 330 AH
- Editions
- Maktabat Ibn Taymiyyah
Kitab al-Dua (The Book of Supplication) is a hadith compilation on invocations and supplications compiled by the Iraqi judge and traditionist Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Ismail al-Mahamili (235–330 AH / 849–941 CE) .
Title and Subject Matter
The work is commonly referred to in transmission records as Kitab al-Dua . It is also recorded under the expanded title Kitab al-Dua wa-Thawabuh (The Book of Supplication and Its Reward) , and described in some transmission manuscripts as a treatise on supplications relating to travel . Formatted as a concise hadith monograph (juz'), the text collects prophetic traditions and reports concerning the merits and wordings of supplications .
Transmission and Reception
The book was preserved and circulated among scholars of hadith through several distinct transmission pathways:
- The Baghdadi Line: A primary line of transmission stems from the author's student Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Ubayd Allah ibn al-Bayyi', transmitted through Abu al-Khattab Nasr ibn Ahmad ibn al-Batr . This route was related by figures such as Abu Tahir al-Silafi and Abu al-Fath Muhammad ibn Abd al-Baqi ibn al-Batti, passing down to later hadith scholars including Salah al-Din al-Alai, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, and Siraj al-Din al-Qazwini .
- The Dinawari Line: Another chain originates from al-Mahamili through Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn al-Kassar al-Dinawari to Abu Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ibn Hamad al-Duni, which was transmitted to later Syrian scholars, including Yusuf ibn al-Zaki al-Mizzi in Damascus .
The text was regularly audited and read in major centers of Islamic scholarship, with documented audition sessions across Cairo, Mecca, and Damascus .
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