al-Mustakhraj ala al-Mustadrak lil-Hakim = Amali al-Iraqi

al-Mustakhraj ala al-Mustadrak lil-Hakim (Arabic: المستخرج على المستدرك للحاكم), also known as Amali al-Iraqi (أمالي العراقي), is a hadith work by the Shafi'i hadith scholar Zayn al-Din al-Iraqi (725–806 AH / 1325–1404 CE) in which he provided alternative transmission chains (mustakhraj) and critical commentary on al-Hakim al-Naysaburi's al-Mustadrak ala al-Sahihayn al-Hafiz al-Iraqi wa Atha…+1.

Composition and Dictation

Al-Iraqi referred to the work by the title al-Mustakhraj ala al-Mustadrak in his biographical dictionary Dhayl al-Mizan al-Hafiz al-Iraqi wa Atha…. The book was delivered in public hadith dictation sessions (amali) at al-Madrasa al-Fadiliyya in Cairo al-Hafiz al-Iraqi wa Atha…+1. According to his student Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, after al-Iraqi concluded his dictation on the Amali of al-Rafi'i, he began dictating from his extraction on al-Mustadrak, compiling about one volume that reached midway through the Book of Prayer (Kitab al-Salat) al-Hafiz al-Iraqi wa Atha….

Ibn Hajar recorded that these dictations spanned nearly three hundred sessions—from session 116 to session 416 of al-Iraqi's general Egyptian amali—amounting to 298 sessions dedicated to al-Mustadrak when excluding sessions 408 and 413 through 416, which covered other subjects al-Hafiz al-Iraqi wa Atha…. Ibn Fahd counted them as 301 sessions, while Abu Zur'ah Ibn al-Iraqi and al-Sakhawi concurred with the general breakdown al-Hafiz al-Iraqi wa Atha…. Each session typically addressed one or two hadiths al-Hafiz al-Iraqi wa Atha….

Method and Content

In each session, al-Iraqi narrated hadiths from al-Mustadrak with his own chains of transmission reaching the early sources, comparing narrations and evaluating variant wordings and transmitters al-Hafiz al-Iraqi wa Atha…+1. He assessed the authenticity of the reports as sound (sahih), fair (hasan), or weak (da'if), occasionally relying on earlier authorities like Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn Hibban, al-Tirmidhi, al-Daraqutni, and al-Bayhaqi, and at other times deriving his own judgments through critical analysis of chains and hidden defects (ilal) al-Hafiz al-Iraqi wa Atha….

The work also includes corrections and critiques of al-Hakim's evaluations, pointing out instances where al-Hakim declared a narration unique or missing from Sahih Muslim when it was in fact recorded there, or where he authenticated weak narrators al-Hafiz al-Iraqi wa Atha…+1.

Transmission and Extant Portions

An autograph manuscript of the text remained in circulation in later centuries and was cited by Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti as well as al-Murtada al-Zabidi, who referred to it under the title Islah al-Mustadrak al-Hafiz al-Iraqi wa Atha….

Only a portion of the original dictations is known to survive, consisting of seven sessions from the Book of Prayer (sessions 262, 265, 266, 267, 268, 271, and 273 of the extraction, corresponding to sessions 378 through 389 of al-Iraqi's general amali) al-Hafiz al-Iraqi wa Atha…+1. These sessions are preserved in manuscripts at Leiden University Library in the hand of Ibn al-Lubudi, the Institute of Arabic Manuscripts in Cairo, and the Municipal Library of Alexandria (MS 2436) al-Hafiz al-Iraqi wa Atha…+1. This surviving fragment was edited by Muhammad Abd al-Mun'im Rashad and published in Cairo in 1410 AH al-Hafiz al-Iraqi wa Atha….