al-Majlis 128 min Amali Abi al-Qasim al-Samarqandi
- Author died
- 536 AH
- Editions
- Manuscript published in the free Jawāmiʿ al-Kalim program affiliated with Islamweb
al-Majlis 128 min Amali Abi al-Qasim al-Samarqandi (The 128th Session from the Dictations of Abu al-Qasim al-Samarqandi) is a short hadith booklet comprising the 128th dictation session held by the traditionist Abu al-Qasim Isma'il ibn Ahmad al-Samarqandi (454–536 AH / 1062–1142 CE) .
Background and Context
The text forms a single installment of al-Samarqandi's extensive corpus of dictations (amālī), which exceeded three hundred sessions . Born in Damascus and later settled in Baghdad, al-Samarqandi became one of the preeminent hadith transmitters of his era . He delivered these sessions in Baghdad at Jami' al-Mansur on Fridays following the prayer, seated in the precinct associated with 'Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal .
Transmission and Manuscript
Al-Samarqandi's dictations were transmitted by numerous prominent scholars of the sixth century AH, including Abu al-Yumn al-Kindi and Umar ibn Tabarzad, and recorded in later bibliographic catalogs such as Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's al-Muʿjam al-mufahras and Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti's Anshāb al-kuthub .
A manuscript of this specific session survives in the collections of the Zahiriyyah Library in Damascus among the al-Majāmīʿ al-ʿUmariyyah (compilation no. 106, treatise no. 1), spanning folios 1 to 11 .
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