al-Muwafaqiyat al-Tisaaiyat lil-Dumyati
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- 705 AH
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- al-Muwafaqiyat al-Tisaaiyat lil-Dumyati
al-Muwafaqiyat al-Tisaaiyat lil-Dumyati (The Nine-Tiered Concordances of al-Dumyati) is a collection of hadiths featuring elevated chains of transmission compiled by the Shafi'i hadith scholar and genealogist Abd al-Mumin ibn Khalaf al-Dumyati (613–705 AH / 1217–1306 CE) .
Subject and Methodology
The work belongs to the genre of elevated transmission (‘uluww al-isnad), specifically focusing on tisa‘iyat (hadiths preserved with nine intermediaries between the compiler and the Prophet ﷺ) and muwafaqat (concordances, wherein the compiler reaches a major master's teacher through an independent path) . Al-Dumyati structured his collections of elevated narrations around various technical categories of elevation, including abdal (substitutes), muwafaqat, and musafahat (handshakes, chains that match a major compiler's level of transmission), establishing links to the transmissions of canonical collectors such as Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, al-Tirmidhi, and al-Nasa'i .
Al-Dumyati compiled several specialized tracts within this scope, notably al-Arba‘un al-Muwafaqat al-‘Awali (The Forty Elevated Concordances), al-Arba‘un al-Abdal al-Tisa‘iyat (The Forty Nine-Tiered Substitutes relating to Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari and Muslim), al-Mi’ah al-Tisa‘iyah al-Abdal (The One Hundred Nine-Tiered Substitutes), and al-Tisa‘iyat al-Mutlaqah (The Absolute Nine-Tiered Transmissions) .
Transmission and Reception
Al-Dumyati regularly dictated and recited these collections during his teaching sessions in Cairo and Damascus . Audiences and students transmitted his elevated parts through formal reading (sama‘); for instance, parts were read in his presence at the Zahiriyyah Madrasah in Cairo in 699 AH . A manuscript copy of his nine-tiered forty hadiths for al-Bukhari and Muslim, read directly to al-Dumyati in 688 AH, was preserved in the al-Khalidiyyah Library in Jerusalem . The transmission of al-Dumyati's tisa‘iyat continued through subsequent generations of hadith scholars via chains connecting through scholars such as al-Izz ibn Jama‘ah .
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