al-Juz al-Thani min al-Harbiyyat li-Ali ibn Umar al-Harbi
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al-Juz' al-Thani min al-Harbiyyat (The Second Part of the Harbiyyat) is a hadith tract compiled by Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Umar al-Harbi (d. 386 AH / 996 CE), comprising narrations related from his teachers .
Context and Content
The author, Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Umar ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Himyari—also known as al-Sukkari, al-Sayrafi, and al-Kayyal—compiled several hadith collections known collectively as Hadith al-Harbi, Amali al-Harbi, or al-Harbiyyat . The wider Harbiyyat collection consists of five parts titled al-Fawa'id al-muntaqah al-ghara'ib al-hisan (Selected Benefits: Fine Rare Traditions) . While the first part comprises the narrations of Yahya ibn Ma'in via Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn Abd al-Jabbar al-Sufi, the second part—along with the third, fourth, and fifth—is dedicated to hadiths transmitted by al-Harbi directly from his own teachers .
The narrations in this second part include hadiths related from teachers such as al-Haytham ibn Khalaf al-Duri, Umar ibn al-Hasan al-Halabi, Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn Abd al-Jabbar al-Sufi, Hamid ibn Muhammad ibn Shu'ayb, al-Hasan ibn al-Tayyib al-Balkhi, and Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn Harun al-Sabbahi .
Transmission and Manuscripts
The primary transmission (riwayah) of the second part from al-Harbi comes through his student Abu al-Husayn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Naqqur, as well as through Abu al-Husayn ibn al-Muhtadi bi-Llah . Later hadith scholars maintained its audition chains across subsequent centuries; for instance, Yusuf ibn al-Zaki al-Mizzi read it in Cairo in 684 AH, and Fakhr al-Din Ibn al-Bukhari transmitted it in Damascus . It was also documented in the bibliographical catalogs of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani and Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti .
Manuscript copies of the collection survive in composite volumes (majami'), including manuscript collections preserved at the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus .
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