al-Khamis Ashar min al-Khulaiyat
- Author died
- 492 AH
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- Manuscript published in the free Jawami' al-Kalim program affiliated with Islamweb
al-Khamis Ashar min al-Khulaiyat (al-Juzʾ al-Khāmis ʿAshar min al-Khulaʿiyyāt; "The Fifteenth Part of the Khulaʿiyyāt") is an individual hadith booklet (juzʾ) from the twenty-part hadith collection of the Shafi'i jurist and hadith scholar Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Khila'i (d. 492 AH / 1099 CE) .
Origin and Context
The collection from which this part is drawn is formally titled al-Fawāʾid al-munaqqāt al-ḥisān min al-ṣiḥāḥ wa-al-gharāʾib ("The Selected Fine Benefits from Sound and Rare Narrations") . It was extracted and organized (takhrīj) for al-Khila'i by Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Shirazi from the former's auditory transmissions from his teachers . The entire work comprises twenty distinct thematic parts, representing some of the highest-ranking (ʿālī) chains of transmission circulating among Egyptian traditionists in that period .
Contents
The fifteenth part opens with a narration transmitted by al-Khila'i from Abu Muhammad ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Nahhas al-Bazzar, through Ibn al-A'rabi, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Za'farani, Sufyan ibn Uyaynah, Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, and Abu Salama, on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, reporting that the Prophet ﷺ said: من صام رمضان إيمانا واحتسابا غفر له ما تقدم من ذنبه، ومن قام ليلة القدر إيمانا واحتسابا غفر له ما تقدم من ذنبه ("Whoever fasts Ramadan out of faith and seeking reward, his prior sins will be forgiven; and whoever stands in prayer on the Night of Decree out of faith and seeking reward, his prior sins will be forgiven") .
The section spans numbered traditions through report 720, concluding with an account of verses recited by Imran ibn Hittan to al-Farazdaq, following a theological anecdote on divine decree (qadar) .
Transmission
The fifteenth part, along with the broader Khulaʿiyyāt, was transmitted down from al-Khila'i by his student Abu Muhammad ʿAbd Allah ibn Rifaʿah al-Saʿdi . It subsequently reached later traditionists through authorities such as Muhammad ibn ʿImad al-Harrani and his contemporaries in Egypt and Syria .
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