al-Jam bayn al-Sahihayn li Abd al-Haqq
- Author died
- 581 AH
- Editions
- دار المحقق للنشر والتوزيع
al-Jam bayn al-Sahihayn (Combining the Two Sahihs) is a hadith compilation by the Andalusian scholar Abd al-Haqq al-Ishbili, also known as Ibn al-Kharrat (d. 581 AH / 1185–1186 CE; also reported as 582 AH), in which he merged the authentic narrations of Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim into a single unified work .
Method and Structure
Unlike earlier works such as that of al-Humaydi (d. 488 AH), which arranged hadiths according to the musnad format by the narrating Companion, Abd al-Haqq organized his compilation topically by thematic legal and religious chapters (abwab) . He adopted Sahih Muslim as his foundational text and framework, supplying his own chapter headings (tarajim), and incorporated the corresponding narrations and additions from Sahih al-Bukhari, whether they were additions to shared reports or narrations unique to al-Bukhari .
In presenting the texts, Abd al-Haqq cited the most complete wording of each hadith, following it with the supplementary wordings scattered across both collections and distinguishing what the two authors agreed upon from what each reported uniquely . In addition to the strictly transmitted hadiths, he collected non-isnaded material found in Sahih al-Bukhari, including legal opinions of jurists, statements of Companions and Successors, lexical explanations, and suspended reports (mu'allaqat) mentioned in chapter headings, noting where they occurred across the books of al-Bukhari's work .
Scholarly Reception
The work received praise from later hadith scholars across the Islamic East and West, including Zayn al-Din al-Iraqi, al-Dhahabi, and Ibn Nasir al-Din . Al-Iraqi noted in his commentary on the Alfiyyah that while compilers like al-Humaydi introduced extraneous phrases from extra-canonical extraction works (mustakhrajat) without clearly distinguishing them, Abd al-Haqq strictly adhered to the authentic wording of the two Sahihs, allowing scholars to quote from his work and attribute the text directly to al-Bukhari and Muslim .
Publication
The work was edited by Hamad ibn Muhammad al-Ghammas and published with an introductory presentation by Bakr Abu Zayd .
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