al-Rabi al-Ashr min al-Khulaiyat
- Author died
- 492 AH
- Editions
- Manuscript published in the free program Jawami' al-Kalim of the Islamweb website
Al-Rabi al-Ashr min al-Khulaiyat (Arabic: الرابع عشر من الخلعيات, lit. 'The Fourteenth Part of the Khula'iyyat') is a hadith fascicle forming the fourteenth part of al-Khula'iyyat, a collection of elevated and rare narrations transmitted by the Egyptian Shafi'i jurist and traditionist Abu al-Hasan al-Khula'i (405–492 AH / 1014–1099 CE) .
Origin and Scope
The broader work from which this fascicle derives, formally titled al-Fawa'id al-muntaqah al-hisan min al-sihah wa-al-ghara'ib (Selected Fine Benefits of Sound and Rare Traditions), was compiled and extracted (takhrij) from al-Khula'i's hadith hearings by Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Shirazi (also cited as Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Shirazi) . The full collection was organized into twenty individual parts (ajza'), of which al-Rabi al-Ashr constitutes the fourteenth .
The compilation brings together narrations containing high chains of transmission (isnad 'ali) and uncommon textual variants (ghara'ib) preserved by al-Khula'i, who served as the leading authority in hadith transmission (musnid) in Egypt during his era . Scholars of hadith considered the parts of al-Khula'iyyat to represent the highest surviving chains of transmission among Egyptian traditionists of that period .
Transmission and Reception
The primary transmission of the work was relayed from al-Khula'i through his student Abd Allah ibn Rifa'ah al-Sa'di . From Ibn Rifa'ah, the text was disseminated by transmitters such as Muhammad ibn Imad al-Harrani and Abu Sadiq al-Hasan ibn Yahya ibn Sabbah al-Makhzumi .
Later scholars frequently audited and taught the individual parts of al-Khula'iyyat, including the fourteenth part, and cited its specific narrations in hadith commentaries and cross-referencing works (takhrij) . Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani recorded his continuous chains of audition for the twenty parts of the collection, explicitly detailing his transmission of the fourteenth part through chains reaching back to Ibn Rifa'ah and al-Khula'i .
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