al-Fawaid al-Aqadiyya - ضمن "Athar al-Muallimi
- Author died
- 1386 AH
- Editions
- Dār ‘Ālam al-Fawā’id lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzī‘
al-Fawaid al-Aqadiyya (الفوائد العقدية, lit. 'Creedal Benefits') is a compilation of theological notes and analytical observations by the Yemeni scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Muallimi al-Yamani (1313–1386 AH / 1895–1966 CE), published as part of the collected works project Athar al-Muallimi .
Origin and Compilation
The material comprising al-Fawaid al-Aqadiyya was extracted from al-Muallimi's personal notebooks and scrapbooks (kunnashat), which he compiled over approximately fifty years during his travels and residences in Yemen, Asir, Indonesia, India, and Mecca . Throughout these decades, al-Muallimi recorded scholarly points that occurred to him, summarized benefits from books he read across various disciplines, derived novel insights, and registered critical rectifications and comments on various texts .
Classification and Structure
Within the publication of al-Muallimi's miscellaneous notebooks under the title Fawaid al-Majami, the editors organized and merged the scattered entries by academic subject . The creedal benefits were categorized as the second major division of the collection, alongside six other thematic disciplines:
- Exegetical benefits (al-fawaid al-tafsiriyya)
- Creedal benefits (al-fawaid al-aqadiyya)
- Hadith benefits (al-fawaid al-hadithiyya)
- Jurisprudential benefits (al-fawaid al-fiqhiyya)
- Legal theory benefits (al-fawaid al-usuliyya)
- Linguistic benefits (al-fawaid al-lughawiyya)
- Miscellaneous benefits (al-fawaid al-mutafarriqa)
Editing and Manuscript Transcriptions
The text was prepared and edited by Ali ibn Muhammad al-Umran and Nabil ibn Nassar al-Sindi, and reviewed by Muhammad Ajmal al-Islahi . Transcribing al-Muallimi's original drafts presented substantial editorial challenges because he wrote rapidly in scripts that were frequently unpointed (lacking diacritical dots), with extensive cross-outs, line redirections, and phrasing adjustments, requiring the editors to decipher ambiguous passages and collate the transcriptions multiple times .
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