al-Mashyakha al-Baghdadiyya - al-Umawi
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- 650 AH
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- t Bashar · t Amir Sabri
al-Mashyakha al-Baghdadiyya (The Baghdadian Mashyakha) is a hadith collection compiled by Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad al-Birzali al-Ishbili recording the Baghdadi teachers of the hadith transmitter Rashid al-Din Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn al-Mufarraj ibn Maslama al-Umawi (d. 650 AH / 1252 CE) .
Scope and Content
The work compiles the transmissions of Ahmad ibn Maslama al-Umawi received through written authorization (ijaza) from scholars residing in Baghdad and the wider region of Iraq, with letters of authorization dated around 559 AH .
Each entry in the text is organized around an individual teacher, presenting:
- A transmission from the shaykh with its full chain of narration (isnad) .
- Textual comparisons and cross-references (takhrij) tracing the reported hadith to canonical collections such as Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim .
- Biographical notices for each scholar, mentioning their prominent teachers, scholarly proficiencies, dates of birth and death, and places of burial .
Among the scholars documented in the text are Yahya ibn Thabit ibn Bundar al-Baqqal (d. 566 AH), the grammarian and hadith scholar Abu Muhammad Ibn al-Khashshab (492–567 AH), and Abu Bakr Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Naqqur (d. 565 AH) .
Publication
The work was edited by Amir Hasan Sabri and published by Mu'assasat al-Rayyan in Beirut (1st edition, 1425 AH / 2004 CE) within a single volume comprising three hadith collections, alongside the Mashyakha of Abu Hafs Umar ibn Muhammad al-Suhrawardi and that of Abu al-Munajja Ibn al-Latti .
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