al-Mujtaba min al-Mujtana

al-Mujtaba min al-Mujtana (The Chosen Selection from the Harvested Knowledge) is a multidisciplinary compendium compiled by the Hanbali scholar and preacher Ibn al-Jawzi (510–597 AH / 1116–1200 CE) Qurrat al-Ayn fi Talkhis …+1. The work gathers key points, summaries, and benefits from various disciplines, including Quranic sciences, prophetic biography, hadith transmission, and historical primacies al-Mujtaba min al-Mujtana+1.

Title and Purpose

The author introduced the work as an easily accessible reference for memorizers and students, stating that he selected its contents from various sciences he had harvested over his scholarly career al-Mujtaba min al-Mujtana+1. In scholarly sources and manuscript traditions, the title appears as al-Mujtaba min al-Mujtana and is also cited with the transposed title al-Mujtana min al-Mujtaba Khizanat al-Turath - Fihr…+1. Haji Khalifa recorded it in Kashf al-Zunun under the alternate title al-Mujtaba min al-'Ulum al-Mujtaba min al-Mujtana.

Contents and Structure

The book is organized into thematic chapters addressing several traditional fields of knowledge:

• Quranic Sciences: The work opens with benefits concerning the sciences of the Quran, including the classification of Quranic forms of address into fifteen categories (such as general, specific, honorific, and shift of grammatical person) al-Mujtaba min al-Mujtana+1.
• Prophetic Biography and Companions: It covers the lineage and family of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, the biographies and musnads of the Ten Promised Paradise, and the participants of the Battle of Badr al-Mujtaba min al-Mujtana+1.
• Hadith Narrators and Statistics: Ibn al-Jawzi details notable male and female Companions, beginning among women with the Prophet's wives and daughters, providing the total number of hadiths narrated by each Companion as well as the counts recorded by al-Bukhari and Muslim jointly or individually Qurrat al-Ayn fi Talkhis …+1.
• Hadith Studies and Primacies: The text addresses various hadith-related questions and concludes with a section on historical primacies (al-awwaliyyat), detailing the first occurrences of various matters al-Mujtaba min al-Mujtana.

Manuscripts and Editions

Manuscripts of the work include:

• An Istanbul manuscript preserved in the Hagia Sophia collection (no. 539 / 3395), copied in 632 AH across 190 small-format folios and historically endowed by Sultan Mahmud Khan Khizanat al-Turath - Fihr…+1.
• An Istanbul manuscript in the Ahmed III collection (Majmu' 588, fols. 167–225), also copied in 632 AH Asma al-Sahaba allati اتف….

The book has been published in modern editions, including an edition prepared by 'Ali Husayn al-Bawwab (Dar al-Fa'iz, 1409 AH / 1988 CE) and another edited by Ayman al-Buhayri with an introduction by 'Ali Goma'a (1419 AH / 1998 CE) al-Mujtaba min al-Mujtana+1.