al-Ishrun min al-Khulaiyyat
- Author died
- 492 AH
- Editions
- Manuscript published in the free Jawami' al-Kalim program of Islamweb
al-Ishrun min al-Khulaiyyat (Arabic: العشرون من الخلعيات), also known as al-Khulaiyyat or al-Fawa'id al-Ishrun, is a twenty-part hadith collection extracted by Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Shirazi from the transmissions of the Egyptian Shafi'i hadith scholar and judge Abu al-Hasan al-Khali (405–492 AH / 1015–1099 CE).
Compilation and Title
The work is titled in full al-Fawa'id al-Muntaqah al-Hisan min al-Sihah wa-al-Ghara'ib (Selected Fine Benefits from the Sound and Unfamiliar Traditions) and is alternatively titled al-Fawa'id al-Ishrun (The Twenty Benefits). The collection was selected and compiled (takhrīj) by Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Shirazi from the heard transmissions (masmūʿāt) of Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Khali, after whom the collection was named. The compilation was divided into twenty distinct hadith parts (ajzāʾ).
Content and Method
The collection comprises hadiths, rare narrations, and scholarly anecdotes transmitted through al-Khali's teachers in Egypt. Salah al-Din al-Ala'i characterized the twenty parts as rich in scholarly benefits and elevated transmissions (asānīd ʿāliyah), remarking that they represent the highest chains of transmission narrated from the scholars of Egypt. In addition to Prophetic traditions, the collection preserves historical and literary reports, such as a report regarding the inscription on the signet ring of Abu Amr ibn al-Ala.
Transmission and Reception
The primary transmitter of the collection from al-Khali was his companion and student Abd Allah ibn Rifa'ah al-Sa'di. Ibn Rifa'ah transmitted the entire work by audition or permission (ijāzah) to later scholars, including Muhammad ibn Imad al-Harrani and Abu Sadiq al-Makhzumi, through whom the text circulated widely among subsequent hadith authorities in Damascus, Cairo, and Alexandria. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani and other later bibliographers recorded chains of transmission linking directly to the twenty parts of the compilation.
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