al-Durr al-Manzum min Kalam al-Mustafa al-Masum
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al-Durr al-Manzum min Kalam al-Mustafa al-Masum (The Strung Pearls from the Speech of the Chosen Infallible Prophet) is a concise compendium of legal hadiths (ahadith al-ahkam) compiled by the Hanafi hadith scholar Ala al-Din Mughaltay (689–762 AH / 1290–1361 CE) .
Scope and Methodology
The work comprises 361 hadiths arranged topically across the standard chapters of Islamic jurisprudence . In the prologue, Mughaltay defines the book's dual structure:
- Authentic core: The primary text gathers legal rulings supported by hadiths jointly recorded by the six major hadith authorities—al-Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, al-Nasa'i, and Ibn Majah—which the author designates as "the soundest of authentic narrations" (asahh al-sahih) .
- Appended weak narrations: At the conclusion of each chapter or legal theme, Mughaltay appends hadiths whose weakness is recognized among authoritative hadith critics, specifically citing judgments from Abu Isa al-Tirmidhi, al-Uqayli, Abu al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzi, Ibn Adi, al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, and al-Daraqutni .
Documentation and Transmission
Most classical biographers of Mughaltay referred to his work on legal rulings descriptively—noting that he compiled what was agreed upon by the six imams—without explicitly citing its full title . Hajji Khalifa recorded it in Kashf al-Zunun under the shortened titles al-Durr al-Manzum min Kalam al-Masum and al-Durr al-Manzum fi al-Hadith without elaborate description . The book's full title is confirmed in Mughaltay's own prologue and by later scholars, including Umar ibn Fahd in Mu'jam al-Shuyukh and al-Sakhawi in his biographical dictionary al-Daw al-Lami' when documenting Mughaltay's student Yusuf ibn Musa al-Jamal al-Malati . It was also directly transmitted by other students, such as the Cairo traditionist Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Ahmad al-Misri (known as Ibn Abi Ziba, d. 790 AH), who attended Mughaltay's readings of the text .
Manuscripts and Publication
Manuscript copies of al-Durr al-Manzum are preserved in library collections, including manuscripts at Umm al-Qura University in Mecca (MS 972) and the Taymuriyya collection in Cairo (MS 288) . The text was edited by Hasan Abji with scholarly supervision and review by Muhammad Awwama, published by al-Maktaba al-Mahmudiyya in Cairo .
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