al-Ruwat an Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj - al-Diya al-Maqdisi
- Author died
- 643 AH
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- Manuscript published in the free Jawāmiʿ al-Kalim software affiliated with the Islamweb website
al-Ruwat ʿan Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (The Narrators from Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj) is a short hadith tract (juzʾ) compiled by the Hanbali traditionist and hadith master Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi (569–643 AH / 1173–1243 CE), documenting narrators who transmitted directly from Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj .
Purpose and Method
The tract was compiled to record the narrations that reached Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi through direct students and transmitters of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj . Rather than attempting an exhaustive biographical dictionary of all who studied under Muslim, al-Maqdisi restricted the work to ten transmitters from whom he possessed unbroken chains of transmission (isnad) connecting back to Muslim . Under each narrator's entry, he records a prophetic tradition or historical report with his full chain through that narrator from Muslim .
Contents and Structure
The tract consists of ten numbered entries for the following narrators, ordered as follows:
- Abu Hamid Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan (known as Ibn al-Sharqi) .
- Abu Hamid Ahmad ibn ʿAli ibn Hasnawayh al-Muqriʾ .
- Abu Hamid Ahmad ibn Hamdun al-Aʿmashi, from whom he transmits Muslim's praise of al-Bukhari .
- Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Sufyan al-Zahid al-Naysaburi, the primary transmitter of Sahih Muslim .
- ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Yasin .
- Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Daghuli .
- Abu ʿIsa Muhammad ibn ʿIsa ibn Sawrah al-Tirmidhi, the author of the Sunan .
- Abu ʿAbd Allah Muhammad ibn Makhlad ibn Hafs al-Duri al-ʿAttar .
- Abu Hatim Makki ibn ʿAbdan ibn Muhammad .
- Abu ʿAwanah Yaʿqub ibn Ishaq al-Isfarayini, the author of the Mustakhraj on Muslim .
Transmission and Publication
The work was transmitted directly from Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi by his nephew through marriage, the Hanbali chief judge Abu al-Fadl Sulayman ibn Hamza al-Maqdisi (d. 715 AH) . It has been published in modern print by Dar Ibn Hazm, edited by ʿAbd Allah al-Kandari and Hadi al-Marri alongside al-Dhahabi's biographical tract on Muslim and the transmitters of his Sahih .
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