al-Fawaid al-Jalila fi Musalsalat Ibn Aqila
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- 1150 AH
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- Dār al-Bashāʼir al-Islāmīyah
al-Fawaid al-Jalila fi Musalsalat Ibn Aqila (The Sublime Benefits Regarding the Pattern-Chained Hadiths of Ibn Aqila) is a specialized collection of forty pattern-chained hadiths (musalsalat) compiled by the Meccan Hanafi traditionist Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Said al-Makki, widely known as Ibn Aqila (d. 1150 AH / 1737 CE).
Content and Transmission
The work brings together forty pattern-chained narrations and became widely circulated and transmitted among later traditionists, particularly in the Hejaz, Yemen, and Syria (al-Sham). Scholars commonly transmitted the collection in single sittings that incorporated the physical or verbal mannerisms associated with each narration (bi-aʿmālihā).
Reception and Scholarly Treatments
The collection formed the basis for several subsequent commentaries, source-evaluations, and adaptations:
- Murtada al-Zabidi (d. 1205 AH / 1791 CE) composed an analytical supplement styled after a mustakhraj, titled al-Taʿliqa al-Jalila ʿala Musalsalat Ibn ʿAqila. Al-Zabidi compiled it in three sessions in 1189 AH—filling roughly four quires—after hadith students reading the work with him noted breaks in certain chains that compromised chain continuity; he was asked to connect the suspended transmissions, link the severed paths, and assess the status of particular hadith texts (matn).
- Muhammad Abid al-Sindi (d. 1257 AH / 1841 CE) adopted Ibn Aqila's forty narrations as the primary material for the second volume of his transmission register (thabat), titled Hasr al-Sharid, which was dedicated to pattern-chained hadiths.
- Salamah ibn Muhammad al-Ushbuli al-Hanafi al-Misri abridged the bulk of his own small collection of musalsalat from Ibn Aqila's work and al-Zabidi's mustakhraj supplement.
Publication
The work was edited by Muhammad Rida and published by Dar al-Bashair al-Islamiyya in Beirut in 1421 AH (2000 CE).
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