al-Juz al-Awwal wa al-Thani min Fawaid Ibn Bishran
- Author died
- 415 AH
- Editions
- Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmīyah
al-Juz al-Awwal wa al-Thani min Fawaid Ibn Bishran (The First and Second Parts of the Hadith Benefits of Ibn Bishran) is a collection of hadith transmissions and narrations compiled from the transmissions of the Baghdadi traditionist Abu al-Husayn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Bishran (d. 415 AH / 1024 CE) .
Author and Context
The compiler, Abu al-Husayn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Bishran al-Umawi al-Baghdadi al-Sukkari al-Mu'addal, was a prominent hadith transmitter in Baghdad and the elder brother of the hadith scholar and preacher Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Bishran (d. 430 AH) . Coming from a scholarly family whose lineage traces back to Umayyad clients (mawla), his grandfather was the judge Abu al-Tayyib Abd Allah ibn Bishran (d. 347 AH) .
Content and Transmission
The work belongs to the fawa'id (hadith benefits) genre, comprising short thematic and miscellaneous transmissions selected from the narrations of Abu al-Husayn Ibn Bishran from his teachers . The material spans prophetic traditions, companion reports (athar), and edifying narratives recorded with their full chains of transmission (isnad) .
Among the principal authorities and teachers from whom Ibn Bishran transmits within the text and his related corpuses are:
- Abu Ali Ismail ibn Muhammad al-Saffar
- Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Salman al-Najjar
- Abu Sahl Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ziyad al-Qattan
- Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Daybuli, whom he heard at the Sacred Mosque in Mecca
- Abu Muhammad Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Khuldi
- Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Safwan al-Bardha'i
- Abu Amr Uthman ibn Ahmad al-Daqqaq
- Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Amr ibn al-Bakhtari al-Razzaz
Ibn Bishran's narrations were widely transmitted by later authorities, including al-Khatib al-Baghdadi and Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi, who cited him extensively across their major collections .
Manuscripts and Publication
Manuscript copies of Ibn Bishran's Fawaid survive in historical collections, including holdings cataloged at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh .
The two parts were edited by Khallaf Mahmud Abd al-Sami' and published in Beirut by Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah (1st ed., 1423 AH / 2002 CE) . In that printing, the work was bound inside a compilation misattributed under the collective title of al-Fawaid of Abd al-Wahhab ibn Mandah . The text has also been investigated and edited within collections of hadith notebooks (ajza') by the scholar Nabil Sa'd al-Din Jarrar .
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