al-Fawaid wa al-Zuhd wa al-Raqaiq wa al-Marathi
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- 348 AH
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al-Fawaid wa al-Zuhd wa al-Raqaiq wa al-Marathi (The Hadith Benefits, Asceticism, Heart-Softening Traditions, and Elegies) is a hadith compendium by the Baghdadi Sufi master and traditionist Ja'far al-Khaldi (d. 348 AH / 959 CE).
Transmission and Content
The work compiles hadith reports, ascetic sayings (zuhd), heart-softening admonitions (raqaiq), and elegies (marathi). It is also cited under the abbreviated title al-Zuhd by al-Khaldi, while related surviving portions of his narrations are often designated as Fawaid al-Khaldi (The Benefits of al-Khaldi).
The surviving fourth part (al-Juzʾ al-Rabiʿ) of al-Fawaid wa al-Zuhd wa al-Raqaiq wa al-Marathi wa-Ghayrih is transmitted from al-Khaldi through the reciter and preacher Bakr ibn Shadhan Abu al-Qasim al-Baghdadi (d. 405 AH). Other transmitted parts of his Fawaid were selected by Abu Hafs Umar ibn Abi al-Sari al-Basri and narrated through the cloth merchant Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Shadhan.
Manuscript Tradition and Editions
Manuscript witnesses of the work and its component parts are preserved across several collections:
- The Umariyya composite volume (Majmuʿ 45, folios 32–62 / MS 3781) originally held at the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus.
- Cairo manuscript copies, including Hadith 1558 (pp. 258–268) and Mulhaq 25618/b (folio 12).
- A microfilm manuscript in the Islamic University of Madinah collection (MS 2600/19).
- A manuscript copy preserved at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh (MS 2094-18-f).
The fourth part of the work was edited by Majdi Fathi al-Sayyid and published by Dar al-Sahaba fi Tanta (1409 AH / 1989 CE). It was also published by Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya under the editorship of Khallaf Mahmud Abd al-Sami within the collection known as Majmuʿ Ibn Mandah. Two parts of Fawaid al-Khaldi were separately edited by Nabil Saʿd al-Din Jarrar and published by Dar al-Bashaʾir al-Islamiyya in Beirut (1431 AH / 2010 CE) within Majmuʿ fihi Thalathat Ajzaʾ Hadithiyya.
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