al-Juz al-Thani min Hadith Abi Muhammad Hajib ibn Ahmad al-Tusi

al-Juz al-Thani min Hadith Abi Muhammad Hajib ibn Ahmad al-Tusi ("The Second Part from the Hadith of Abu Muhammad Hajib ibn Ahmad al-Tusi") is a traditional hadith tract (juz') preserving narrations transmitted through the Khurasanian hadith narrator Hajib ibn Ahmad al-Tusi (d. 336 AH / 947–948 CE) al-Juz al-Thani min Hadit…+1.

Origin and Compilation

The text represents one segment of a five-part hadith corpus extracted for Hajib al-Tusi late in his life Tarikh al-Islam. In the year 335 AH in Nishapur, Hajib claimed to be 108 years old, and Abu Muhammad al-Baladhuri attested that he had met early authorities al-Ansab - al-Samani+1. According to al-Hakim al-Naysaburi, al-Baladhuri questioned Hajib as to whether he had attended the study circles of his late uncle, who had been an active hadith collector; upon Hajib's affirmation, al-Baladhuri compiled five thematic parts from his uncle's notebooks for him to transmit Tarikh al-Islam. Toward the end of his life, Hajib was brought out on a platform at the gathering place Dar al-Sunna in Nishapur, where three parts from this collection were read aloud back to him by the scribe Abu Ahmad al-Warraq al-Ansab - al-Samani+1.

Content and Transmission

The collection records prophetic traditions and reports transmitted through Hajib from authorities such as Muhammad ibn Hammad al-Abiwardi, Muhammad ibn Rafi, Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Dhuhli, and Abd al-Rahim ibn Munib al-Juz al-Thani min Hadit…+1. The manuscript opens with a narration related by Hajib from Muhammad ibn Hammad, on the authority of Abu Mu'awiya, from al-A'mash, from Amr ibn Murra, from Abu al-Bakhtari, concerning Ali ibn Abi Talib, who replied to a man praising him: ليس كما تقول وأنا فوق ما في نفسك ("I am not as you say, and I am above what is in your soul") al-Juz al-Thani min Hadit….

The primary line of transmission for this tract ran through al-Qadi Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Hiri of Nishapur, who received it directly from Hajib al-Juz al-Thani min Hadit…+1. Al-Hiri transmitted it in turn to Makki ibn Mansur ibn Ghaylan al-Karkhi (read in Hamadan in Sha'ban 509 AH), who transmitted it to Abu Tahir al-Silafi al-Juz al-Thani min Hadit…+1. Later scholars who received and cataloged chains of transmission for the work include Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Salah al-Din al-Ala'i, and Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi al-Majma al-Muassis lil-M…+2. Al-Maqdisi heard the text in Isfahan during Sha'ban 606 AH from al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Jarbathaqani and produced an abridged selection from it titled al-Muntaqa min al-Juz al-Thani min Hadith al-Tusi al-Sunan wal-Ahkam an al-….

Scholarly Reception

Scholars evaluated the validity of the collection in relation to Hajib's direct transmission. Ibn Mandah, who narrated from him, considered Hajib trustworthy (thiqa) Tarikh al-Islam. Conversely, al-Hakim al-Naysaburi rejected the claim that Hajib had personally heard these hadiths, contending that he had not genuinely studied hadith and that the transmitted materials belonged strictly to his uncle's library Tarikh al-Islam.