al-Sabi al-Ashar min al-Khulaiyat
- Author died
- 492 AH
- Editions
- A manuscript published in the free Jawami' al-Kalim program of the Islamweb website
al-Sabi‘ al-‘Ashar min al-Khula‘iyyat (The Seventeenth Part of the Khula‘iyyat) is an individual hadith booklet representing the seventeenth part of al-Fawa’id al-muntaqah al-hisan al-sihah wa-al-ghara’ib, a twenty-part collection of narrations transmitted by the Egyptian Shafi‘i jurist and hadith master Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Khala'i (405–492 AH / 1014–1099 CE) .
Background and Compilation
The overarching corpus, commonly known as al-Fawa’id al-Khula‘iyyat or simply al-Khula‘iyyat, was extracted and compiled (takhrij) by Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Shirazi from the heard transmissions and narrations of al-Khala‘i . The collection was named after al-Khala‘i, who earned his sobriquet because he traded robes of honor (khila‘) with the sons of rulers and prominent figures in Egypt . The work was organized across twenty distinct hadith notebooks (ajza’), with the seventeenth part (al-juz’ al-sabi‘ ‘ashar) constituting an essential component of this sequence .
Content and Method
The seventeenth part, in keeping with the broader structure of al-Khula‘iyyat, compiles selected hadiths (fawa’id), authentic traditions (al-sihah), rare variants (al-ghara’ib), and high chains of transmission (al-‘awali) narrated by al-Khala‘i from his teachers and regional authorities . The collection was esteemed by subsequent traditionists for the quality of its material; the hadith scholar Salah al-Din al-Ala'i noted that these twenty parts are rich in scholarly benefits and elevated reports, representing some of the highest chains transmitted among the Egyptian scholars of their period .
Transmission
The seventeenth part was transmitted as part of the broader work through al-Khala‘i’s leading student Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Rifa'ah al-Sa'di, who heard parts seven through twenty directly from al-Khala‘i . From Ibn Rifa‘ah, the transmission was preserved by transmitters such as Abu Sadiq al-Hasan ibn Yahya ibn Sabah and Muhammad ibn Imad al-Harrani . Later scholars—including Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, who recorded his continuous reading of the collection through multiple lineages of transmission—regularly studied and transmitted the seventeenth part alongside the rest of the compilation .
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