al-Muwafaqat al-Awali li al-Diya al-Maqdisi_1
- Author died
- 643 AH
- Editions
- Manuscript published in the free program Jawāmiʿ al-Kalim affiliated with the Islamweb website
al-Muwafaqat al-Awali (The Elevated Concurrences) is a hadith treatise by the Hanbali scholar and traditionist Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi (567–643 AH / 1169–1245 CE) compiling elevated chains of transmission (asānīd ʿawālī) from his own teachers .
Subject and Method
The work belongs to the genre of hadith compilations dedicated to muwāfaqāt (hadiths in which the compiler's own chain of transmission reaches a master of one of the major canonical collections with fewer intermediaries than the compiler's direct route) and ʿawālī (chains with minimal narrators between the author and earlier authorities) . In this part, Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi extracted reports from his own audition records (masmūʿāt) where five primary hadith authorities—al-Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, and al-Nasa'i—agreed on narrating through a single shared shaykh, such as Qutayba ibn Sa'id and Abu Musa Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna .
The author traces these reports through his own teachers across various cities, including Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Saydalani in Isfahan, Abu al-Majd Zahir ibn Abi Tahir al-Thaqafi in Isfahan, Abu Ruh Abd al-Mu'izz ibn Muhammad al-Harawi in Herat, and Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Aquli in Baghdad . In marginal notes, the compiler recorded technical observations on canonical variants, such as noting whether a specific narration appeared in al-Nasa'i's larger collection (al-Kitab al-Kabir) or his abridgment al-Mujtana .
Transmission and Manuscripts
The text was transmitted directly from Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi at the foot of Mount Qasiyun outside Damascus . His student, the Hanbali Chief Judge Sulayman ibn Hamza al-Maqdisi, transmitted it further, and it was read by Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Sa'd al-Maqdisi on 13 Safar 743 AH in Marj al-Ubaydiyyah in Marj al-Zabadani .
Manuscripts of the author's compilations of al-Muwafaqat and al-Awali are preserved in several collections, notably in Damascus at the Zahiriyyah Library, as well as copies held in Mecca, Medina, Riyadh, and Kuwait .
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