al-Ilal al-Waqia fi Kitab al-Jami al-Sahih lil-Bukhari
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- 909 AH
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- Ata'at al-Ilm - Mawsu'at Sahih al-Bukhari, https://bukhari-pedia.net
al-Ilal al-Waqi‘a fi Kitab al-Jami‘ al-Sahih lil-Bukhari (The Flaws Occurring in the Book of al-Jami‘ al-Sahih of al-Bukhari) is a hadith critical work by the Hanbali scholar Jamal al-Din Yusuf ibn Abd al-Hadi, commonly known as Ibn al-Mubarrad (840–909 AH / 1436–1503 CE), devoted to examining textual discrepancies, narrator mistakes, and transmission variants across the chains of transmission (isnads) of Sahih al-Bukhari .
Background and Source Text
The work is an abridgment and refinement of material drawn from Taqyid al-Muhmal wa-Tamyiz al-Mushkil by the Andalusian hadith critic Abu Ali al-Ghassani al-Jayyani (d. 498 AH / 1105 CE) . In that work, al-Ghassani dedicated the fifth and sixth parts to identifying errors introduced by transmitters (al-Tanbih ‘ala al-awham al-waqi‘a fi al-Sahihayn min qibal al-ruwat). Ibn al-Mubarrad abridged the section concerning the transmissions of Sahih al-Bukhari, presenting its critical notes on textual and isnad variations in a concise manual .
Scope and Structure
The book is arranged according to the traditional chapter sequence of Sahih al-Bukhari, opening with the Book of Faith (Kitab al-Iman) and proceeding through subsequent sections such as the Book of Knowledge (Kitab al-Ilm) and the Book of Ablution (Kitab al-Wudu) . Under each chapter and bab heading, Ibn al-Mubarrad cites specific hadiths where discrepancies arose among the primary transmitters .
The primary focus is on variations among the transmitters who narrated Sahih al-Bukhari from Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Firabri, including:
- Abu Ali Said ibn Uthman ibn al-Sakan
- Abu Zayd Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Marwazi (al-Jurjani)
- Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Mustamli
- Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Hamawi
- Abu al-Haytham Muhammad ibn Makki al-Kushmihani
It also incorporates passages and variations from the independent transmission of Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ma‘qil al-Nasafi from al-Bukhari . Within these entries, the author details orthographical corruptions (tashif), misidentified narrator names (such as recording Umar instead of Amr, or Sa‘id instead of Sa‘d), omissions of intermediate links in isnads, and variants documented in Andalusian and North African recensions, such as those of Abu al-Hasan al-Qabisi, Abu al-Faraj Abdus ibn Muhammad al-Tulaytili, and Abu Muhammad al-Asili .
Title Variants and Publication
The work is also known and published under the descriptive title al-Ikhtilaf bayna Ruwat al-Bukhari ‘an al-Firabri wa-Riwayat ‘an Ibrahim ibn Ma‘qil al-Nasafi (The Variation Among the Transmitters of al-Bukhari from al-Firabri, and Transmissions from Ibrahim ibn Ma‘qil al-Nasafi) . It was published in a single volume edited by Salah Fathi Halal (Riyadh: Dar al-Watan, 1420 AH / 1999–2000 CE), based on a manuscript preserved in Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyyah in Cairo .
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