al-Qism al-Thalith min al-Mujam al-Awsat lil-Tabarani

al-Qism al-Thalith min al-Mujam al-Awsat lil-Tabarani (The Third Part of al-Mu'jam al-Awsat by al-Tabarani) is an academic critical edition and analytical study of a specific segment of the hadith collection al-Mujam al-Awsat by Abu al-Qasim al-Tabarani (260–360 AH / 873–971 CE) al-Qism al-Thalith min al…. Prepared as a master's thesis in hadith and its sciences at the Faculty of Usul al-Din in Zagazig, Al-Azhar University, the work was edited by researcher Muhammad Fawzi Muhammad al-Sa'dani under the supervision of Mahmud 'Umar Ibrahim Hashim and 'Abd al-'Aziz Mahdi Hasan al-Sayyid al-Qism al-Thalith min al….

Scope and Content

The work encompasses hadiths 651 through 900 of al-Tabarani's al-Mu'jam al-Awsat al-Qism al-Thalith min al…. The text opens with hadith 651, a narration on the authority of 'Amr ibn al-Hamiq beginning: لَا يَحِقُّ الْعَبْدُ حَقِيقَةَ الْإِيمَانِ حَتَّى يَغْضَبَ لِلَّهِ، وَيَرْضَى لِلَّهِ ("A servant does not attain the reality of faith until he becomes angry for the sake of God and is pleased for the sake of God") al-Qism al-Thalith min al…. It concludes with hadith 900, narrated on the authority of Abu Hurayrah and Abu Sa'id al-Khudri with the wording: مَنْ قَتْلَهُمْ فَلَهُ أَجْرُ شَهِيدٍ ("Whoever kills them shall have the reward of a martyr") al-Qism al-Thalith min al….

The publication is structured into an introduction, two primary divisions, a conclusion, and scholarly indexes al-Qism al-Thalith min al….

Structure and Methodology

The work is organized into two major parts:

• The Introductory Study (al-Qism al-Dirasi): Divided into three thematic chapters al-Qism al-Thalith min al…:

  • Chapter One: A biography of al-Tabarani, covering his name, lineage, birth, upbringing, death, travels, teachers, students, scholarly standing, and writings al-Qism al-Thalith min al….
  • Chapter Two: A monograph on al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, detailing its title, attribution, subject, the author's methodology in this section, scholarly contributions toward the text, the technical definition of a mu'jam among hadith scholars, a comparison among al-Tabarani's three dictionaries (al-Mujam al-Kabir, al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and al-Mujam al-Saghir), and a description of its manuscript and printed copies al-Qism al-Thalith min al…+1.
  • Chapter Three: A theoretical examination of single-narrator exclusivity (tafarrud) and rare transmissions (ghara'ib), outlining their linguistic and technical definitions, classifications, rulings, causes of narrational singularity, scholarly stances toward anomalous reports, and existing literature on isolated and rare narrations al-Qism al-Thalith min al….

• The Edited Text (al-Nass al-Muhaqqaq): Comprises the critical edition of the 250 hadiths, featuring textual verification, source attribution (takhrij), evaluation of chains of transmission (isnads) for authenticity or weakness, and critical evaluation of al-Tabarani's individual rulings regarding narrational exclusivity and rarity al-Qism al-Thalith min al…+1.