al-Sahih min al-Akhbar al-Mujtama ala Sihhatihi - Makhtut
- Author died
- 388 AH
- Editions
- ʿAṭāʾāt al-ʿIlm - Mawsūʿat Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, https://bukhari-pedia.net
al-Sahih min al-Akhbar al-Mujtama ala Sihhatihi (Arabic: الصحيح من الأخبار المجتمع على صحته, lit. 'The Authentic Reports Agreed Upon as Sound'), also known as al-Jam bayn al-Sahihayn (الجمع بين الصحيحين, 'The Combination of the Two Sahihs'), is a collection of hadith compiled by the traditionist Abu Bakr al-Jawzaqi (306–388 AH / 918–998 CE) . The work gathers authentic traditions from Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, abridging their chains of transmission .
Purpose and Scope
Al-Jawzaqi compiled the text to bring together the hadith reports authenticated by both al-Bukhari and Muslim while omitting their extended chains of transmission (isnad) . In his introduction, the author stated that his aim in omitting the multiple routes of transmission was to make it easier for students to memorize the texts and to reduce the burden of transcription and carrying heavy volumes during travel and at home .
Structure and Methodology
The work opens with the "Book of Faith and Related Laws and Traditions" (Kitab al-Iman wa-ma yattasilu bihi min al-shara'i wa-l-sunan wa-ghayrihima) . Al-Jawzaqi adopted specific editorial conventions to distinguish between shared and unique transmissions:
- When a tradition is recorded exclusively by either al-Bukhari or Muslim, the compiler explicitly notes at the end of the narration: "Narrated by [so-and-so]" (akhrajahu fulan) .
- When no such attribution is appended at the end of the text, it signifies that the hadith was transmitted jointly by both imams .
Regarding the count of shared traditions, al-Jawzaqi noted in his work al-Muttafiq that the total number of texts (matn) agreed upon by both al-Bukhari and Muslim amounts to 2,326 hadiths (and according to another transmission, 2,200) . As noted by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, al-Jawzaqi considered a hadith to be agreed upon if both authors recorded the same textual content, even if it was narrated through two different Companions .
Reception and Transmission
The North African scholar Abu al-Walid al-Maziri studied al-Jawzaqi's work under Ibn al-Munaysir, and students recorded a series of marginal glosses and notes (ta'liqa) attributed to al-Maziri on the text .
Manuscript copies of the work have survived; among them is a manuscript cataloged under the title al-Jam bayn al-Sahihayn at Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya (No. 20075 B) in Cairo . Transmission notes on surviving copies document recitations of the text across Islamic centers, including a transmission dictated in Samarkand in 579 AH by Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Farghani, tracing its lineage through Abu Sa'd al-Sam'ani, Muhammad ibn al-Fadl al-Farawi, and Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Mansur al-Maghribi directly back to al-Jawzaqi .
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