al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa Kitabuhu al-Muntaqa

al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa Kitabuhu al-Muntaqa (The Hadith Master Ibn al-Jarud and His Book al-Muntaqa) is an academic study and critical edition of the classical hadith work al-Muntaqa by Ahmad Muhammad Muhammad Basyuni, submitted as a master's thesis in the jurisprudence of the Prophetic tradition (Fiqh al-Sunnah) at the Faculty of Islamic Sciences in Muharram 1438 AH (October 2016 CE) under the supervision of Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim al-Halwani.al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa …

Scope and Objectives

The study focuses on the early legal hadith compendium al-Muntaqa compiled by the Nishapuri traditionist Ibn al-Jarud (d. 307 AH).al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa … Basyuni's research examines Ibn al-Jarud's life, his scholarly criteria, and his arrangement of legal rulings, alongside a critical verification (tahqiq) and extensive hadith documentation (takhrij) covering the opening portion of the work through part of the Book of Purification (Kitab al-Tahara).al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa …+1

The author identified several motives for selecting the text, chief among them being the elevated transmission chains (uluww al-isnad) present in al-Muntaqa—which feature four-link chains (rubaiyyat) comparable to Sahih Muslim—as well as Ibn al-Jarud's prominent status as a major pupil of Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Dhuhli.al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa … The work aimed to remedy corruptions and misreadings found in earlier editions, assist in stabilizing related texts such as Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's Ithaf al-Mahara, and evaluate the degree to which Ibn al-Jarud fulfilled his strict condition of narrative authenticity across his chains and narrators.al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa …+1

Content and Structure

The study consists of an extensive introductory analytical section followed by the edited text:

• Biographical Study of Ibn al-Jarud: An examination of his full name, lineage, upbringing, travels, death, and scholarly standing, including an alphabetical inventory of his ninety-nine direct teachers (mashyakha) in al-Muntaqa, their narrations, and their inclusion in the six canonical hadith books.al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa …+1
• Study of al-Muntaqa: An analysis of the title's transmission, the book's manuscript transmission, its transmitters, and Ibn al-Jarud's jurisprudential chaptering.al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa …+1 Basyuni details how Ibn al-Jarud organized the collection according to standard legal divisions: beginning with acts of worship (ibadat)—purification, prayer, zakat, fasting, and pilgrimage, placing funerals at the end of acts of worship—followed by transactions (mu'amalat), starting with sales, marriage, and divorce, through to judicial rulings and jihad.al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa …
• Critical Text and Editorial Apparatus: Verification of the text from the beginning of al-Muntaqa into the chapter of purification, accompanied by comprehensive chain assessments, biographical notices for every narrator, evaluation of hadith soundness, and lexical explanations of uncommon terms (gharib al-hadith).al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa …+1

Textual Method and Manuscript Base

For the edited text, Basyuni relied primarily on the manuscript preserved at the Sa'idiyyah Library in Hyderabad, India, copied in Mecca opposite the Ka'ba over six consecutive days ending in Jumada al-Ula 847 AH by Muhammad ibn Fahd al-Hashimi al-Makki.al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa …+1

To compensate for missing folios and copyist scribal errors in the primary manuscript, the text was collated against:

1. The manuscript of Zayn al-Din Ibn Qutlubugha's abridgment, al-Muntaqa min Muntaqa Ibn al-Jarud.al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa …+1
2. Ibn Hajar's Ithaf al-Mahara bi-Atraf al-Ashara in both its printed and manuscript versions.al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa …+1
3. External hadith compilations that transmitted reports through chains going back to Ibn al-Jarud.al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa …+1
4. Prior printed editions, including the early Indian print and later editions by Abd Allah Hashim al-Yamani and Abu Ishaq al-Huwayni.al-Hafiz Ibn al-Jarud wa …+1