al-Thalith min al-Fawaid al-Muntaqat lil-Harbi
- Author died
- 386 AH
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- Manuscript published in the free Jawami' al-Kalim program affiliated with Islamweb
al-Thalith min al-Fawa'id al-Muntaqat lil-Harbi (Arabic: الجزء الثالث من الفوائد المنتقاة للحربي, lit. 'The Third Part of Selected Benefits by al-Harbi') is a collection of hadiths and transmitted reports compiled by the Iraqi hadith scholar Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn 'Umar al-Harbi (d. 386 AH / 996 CE) .
Overview and Structure
The work constitutes the third fascicle (juz') within a broader five-part compilation commonly known as al-Harbiyyat (or Hadith al-Harbi / Amali al-Harbi), whose full descriptive title is al-Fawa'id al-muntaqat al-ghara'ib al-hisan 'an al-shuyukh al-'awali ("The Selected Rare and Fine Benefits from High-Ranking Shaykhs") . The author, Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn 'Umar ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Shadhan al-Himyari al-Harbi, was also known by the designations al-Sukkari, al-Sayrafi, and al-Kayyal .
While the first part of al-Harbiyyat consists of the transmission of Yahya ibn Ma'in via Abu 'Abd Allah Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn 'Abd al-Jabbar al-Sufi, parts two through five comprise Abu al-Hasan al-Harbi's own narrations received directly from his various teachers .
Content and Transmission
The core material of the work consists of prophetic hadiths and non-prophetic traditions (athar) narrated through elevated transmission chains (isnad 'ali) and selected rare reports (ghara'ib) . Among its texts is the statement transmitted on the authority of 'Abd Allah ibn 'Umar:
كُنَّا نَقُولُ: أَبُو بَكْرٍ، وَعُمَرُ، ثُمَّ عُثْمَانَ، رضي الله عنهم عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ "We used to say: Abu Bakr, 'Umar, then 'Uthman, may Allah be pleased with them, during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ."
The primary line of transmission for this third part goes from Abu al-Hasan al-Harbi to the cloth merchant Abu al-Husayn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Naqqur al-Bazzaz, and from him to the judge Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn 'Umar ibn Yusuf al-Urmawi . It was subsequently audited and transmitted by Abu Bakr 'Abd al-Razzaq ibn 'Abd al-Qadir ibn Abi Salih al-Jili in Rabi' al-Awwal 597 AH . The wider parts of al-Harbiyyat were also transmitted through narrators such as Abu al-Husayn ibn al-Muhtadi, Abu Ya'la ibn al-Farra', Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Baqi al-Ansari, and Yusuf ibn al-Mubarak al-Khaffaf .
Manuscripts
Manuscripts of the text are preserved in multiple collections:
- The al-Asad National Library in Damascus under MS 3840 (represented by microfilm copies at the Islamic University of Madinah: 1187, 5025, and 4576), comprising nineteen folios with approximately eighteen lines per page, bearing audition notes (sama'at) and corrections .
- The Zahiriyya Library under composite collection (majmu') no. 104, spanning ten folios .
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