al-Hawd wal-Kawthar li-Baqi ibn Makhlad
- Author died
- 276 AH
- Editions
- Maktabat al-‘Ulūm wa-al-Ḥikam
al-Hawd wal-Kawthar (Arabic: الحوض والكوثر, The Basin and the River of Abundance), also recorded as Kitāb mā ruwiya fī al-ḥawḍ wa-al-kawthar, is a thematic hadith monograph by the Andalusian scholar Baqi ibn Makhlad (201–276 AH / 816–889 CE) collecting prophetic traditions concerning the Basin (al-ḥawḍ) and the heavenly river al-Kawthar.
Content and Transmission
The work belongs to the genre of specialized hadith collections (ajzāʾ), compiling chains of transmission (asānīd) and narrations from the Companions regarding the descriptions, qualities, and drinkers of the Prophet's Basin and the river of al-Kawthar.
The book was preserved and transmitted in al-Andalus through a familial transmission line. Ibn Khayr al-Ishbili documented its chain in his Fahrasah, tracing it from Baqi ibn Makhlad to his son Ahmad, to his grandson Abu al-Hasan 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Baqi, who narrated it to Abu 'Uthman Sa'id ibn Salama, who transmitted it to the father of Abu Muhammad ibn 'Attab, from whom Ibn Khayr received it.
Continuations and Editions
The Andalusian traditionist Ibn Bashkuwal (d. 578 AH / 1183 CE) composed an appendix to Baqi's monograph titled al-Dhayl ʿalā juzʾ Baqī ibn Makhlad fī al-ḥawḍ wa-al-kawthar (also known as al-Dhayl ʿalā juzʾ Baqī ibn Makhlad min aḥādīth al-ḥawḍ), in which he supplemented the original collection with additional narrations and transmission chains from Companions whose reports were not included in Baqi's treatise.
The text, along with Ibn Bashkuwal's continuation and an added supplement (al-Mustadrak) arranged alphabetically by the names of the narrating Companions, was edited by 'Abd al-Qadir Muhammad 'Ata Sufi and published in Medina by Maktabat al-'Ulum wal-Hikam in 1413 AH (1993 CE).
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