al-Sadis min Fawaid Abi Uthman al-Buhayri
- Author died
- 451 AH
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- مخطوط نُشر في برنامج جوامع الكلم المجاني التابع لموقع الشبكة الإسلامية
al-Sadis min Fawaid Abi Uthman al-Buhayri (The Sixth Part of the Benefits of Abu Uthman al-Buhayri) is a hadith tract containing transmissions extracted from the auditory records of the traditionist Abu Uthman al-Buhayri (364–451 AH / 974–1059 CE) .
Background and Author
The subject of the collection, Abu Uthman Sa'id ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Buhayr al-Buhayri al-Naysaburi, was born in 364 AH (974 CE) and died in Rabi' al-Akhar 451 AH (1059 CE) in Nishapur . Recognized as a leading transmitter (musnid) and hadith authority of Khurasan, his travels for audition took him to Marw, Isfarayin, Jurjan, and Baghdad . He heard traditions from family members and prominent scholars, notably his grandfather Abu al-Husayn Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Buhayri, his father Abu Amr Muhammad ibn Ahmad, Abu Amr ibn Hamdan, and Abu Ali Zahir ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi .
Compilation and Contents
The collection of which this is the sixth part is titled al-Fawa'id al-mukhrajah min usul masmu'at Abi Uthman al-Buhayri (Benefits Extracted from the Original Transmissions of Abu Uthman al-Buhayri) . The traditions were selected and compiled (takhrij) for al-Buhayri by Abu Sa'd Sa'id ibn Muhammad al-Sha'bi (also recorded as al-Tujibi) . The larger work spans nine parts (ajza') and encompasses prophetic hadiths, non-prophetic reports (athar), and verses of poetry .
Transmission and Preservation
The primary transmitter of the collection from al-Buhayri was Abu al-Qasim Zahir ibn Tahir al-Shahhami (d. 533 AH) . It was subsequently transmitted by Abu al-Majd Zahir ibn Abi Tahir ibn Abi Ghanim al-Thaqafi, who received it based on the recitation of Abu al-Ala Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Fadl al-Hafiz before al-Shahhami in 531 AH, and read it in Isfahan in 606 AH .
A surviving Maghribi script manuscript containing parts from the second through the ninth part (with loss in part four) is preserved in Damascus within the Umariyyah collection (MS 3810 / majmu' 74), bearing collation notes, corrections, and audition certificates (sama'at) .
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