al-Tajrid ala al-Tanqih
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- 902 AH
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- al-Maktabah al-Islāmiyyah lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʿ
al-Tajrid ala al-Tanqih (Arabic: التجريد على التنقيح, lit. 'The Extraction upon al-Tanqih') is a compilation of hadith commentary notes and marginal glosses compiled by al-Sakhawi (831–902 AH / 1428–1497 CE) . The text gathers the annotations written by his teacher, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, on his personal copy of al-Tanqih by Badr al-Din al-Zarkashi, which is a commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari .
Background and Composition
The full title recorded on the title page of the manuscript is Tajrid ma katabahu shaykhuna Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Hajar ala nuskhatihi min Tanqih al-Shaykh Badr al-Din al-Zarkashi ("The Extraction of What Our Master, Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Hajar, Wrote upon His Copy of al-Tanqih by Shaykh Badr al-Din al-Zarkashi") . The underlying work, al-Tanqih, had been completed by al-Zarkashi on 8 Dhu al-Qada 788 AH .
The copy of al-Tanqih that Ibn Hajar annotated had originally been reviewed by al-Zarkashi himself, who added numerous handwritten supplements to it . That copy subsequently passed into the possession of al-Zarkashi's son, then to Nur al-Din Ali al-Rashidi, and eventually reached Ibn Hajar in 811 AH . al-Sakhawi extracted and compiled these marginal notes into a standalone treatise .
Contents and Method
The treatise consists of discrete critical remarks, corrections, and verifications made by Ibn Hajar on specific passages of al-Zarkashi's commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari . Ibn Hajar quotes or references al-Zarkashi's phrase (prefaced by qawluhu, "his saying") and follows it with his own analysis .
These comments address various aspects of hadith scholarship and Arabic philology, including:
- Identifying errors and misreadings (tashif) in names, chains of transmission, and narrations, such as pointing out where al-Zarkashi confused Yahya ibn Said al-Ansari with Yahya ibn Said al-Qattan .
- Sourcing and tracing narrations (takhrij), indicating when an attribution to primary works like the Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal or the Sunan of al-Nasai is more immediate and accessible than the secondary sources cited by al-Zarkashi .
- Clarifying chapter headings (tarajim) and structural placements within Sahih al-Bukhari .
- Grammatical parsing, lexical adjustments, and rhetorical observations on the wording of hadith texts .
Manuscript and Publication
The work is preserved in a unique manuscript housed in the library of al-Azhar (within a composite volume under shelfmarks Khususiyyah 109 / Umumiyyah 2116), where it forms the eleventh of twelve treatises . It spans fourteen folios (ff. 155a–169a) in small format, with approximately twenty-three lines per page in standard naskh script .
The text was edited by Hisham ibn Ali al-Saidani and Nadir Mustafa Mahmud and published as a companion work alongside Ibn Hajar's al-Nukat ala Sahih al-Bukhari in Cairo (al-Maktabah al-Islamiyyah, 1426 AH / 2005 CE) .
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