al-Takhreej al-Sagheer wa al-Tahbeer al-Kabeer
- Author died
- 909 AH
- Editions
- Dār al-Nawādir
al-Takhreej al-Sagheer wa al-Tahbeer al-Kabeer (The Minor Hadith Extraction and the Major Embellishment) is a specialized hadith work by the Damascene Hanbali scholar Ibn al-Mubarrad (841–909 AH / 1437–1509 CE), devoted to sourcing widely circulated and rare narrations that do not appear in the two canonical collections of al-Bukhari and Muslim.
Composition and Purpose
The author composed the work as a reference reminder (tadhkirah), finishing its draft in Jumada al-Ula 883 AH. In his introduction, Ibn al-Mubarrad states that the book contains an extraction of popular traditions widespread on the tongues of people (al-ahadith al-mashhurah) along with scarce and unusual narrations (al-ghara'ib) that are rarely recorded in well-known compilations, focusing entirely on material outside the Sahihayn.
Structure and Methodology
The work is organized alphabetically according to the Arabic alphabet (huruf al-mu'jam), ordering traditions by their opening words. For each entry, Ibn al-Mubarrad typically provides the text of the hadith followed by an attribution to its classical source or transmitter. In many instances, he refrains from providing an explicit grading regarding whether a report is authentic (sahih) or weak (da'if).
The text draws substantially upon a vast array of primary sources—including musnads, thematic monographs, dictionaries (ma'ajim), dictations (amali), scholar-specific listings (mashyakhat), and biographical works—many of which remain unpublished or lost. Among the rare source transmissions cited in the text are the hadith compilations and transmissions of Abu Hafs al-Zayyat, Abu al-Hasan al-Taghlibi, al-Silafi, Abu Hilal al-Askari, al-Dihqan, Ahl Harasta, and Mashriq ibn 'Abd Allah.
Manuscript and Publication
An original autograph manuscript of the text, spanning approximately 52 folios in Ibn al-Mubarrad's own hand, is preserved in Damascus at the Zahiriyya Library under shelf mark MS 1032.
The book was edited from this manuscript under the supervision of Nur al-Din Talib and published by Dar al-Nawadir in 1432 AH / 2011 CE. In this printed edition, the narrations are sequentially numbered, totaling 1,253 hadiths.
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