al-Thalith min Mashyakhat Ibn Hayawayh
- Author died
- 382 AH
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- Manuscript published in the free Jawāmiʿ al-Kalim software affiliated with the Islamweb website
al-Thalith min Mashyakhat Ibn Hayawayh (Arabic: الثالث من مشيخة ابن حيويه, lit. 'The Third Part of the Mashyakhah of Ibn Hayawayh') is a short hadith tract (juz') containing selected narrations transmitted by the Baghdadi hadith scholar Abu Umar Muhammad ibn al-Abbas Ibn Hayawayh al-Khazzaz (295–382 AH / 908–992 CE) from his teachers, compiled and extracted (takhrij) by the hadith master al-Daraqutni (306–385 AH / 918–995 CE) .
Background and Transmission
The collection forms part of a broader compilation documenting the transmissions of Abu Umar Ibn Hayawayh from his various teachers in Baghdad . The text was compiled by al-Daraqutni during Ibn Hayawayh's lifetime and subsequently transmitted through an established chain of scholars :
- From Ibn Hayawayh by Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Jawhari (who was his last surviving narrator) .
- From al-Jawhari by Abu Ghalib Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Banna .
- From Ibn al-Banna by Abu Hafs Umar ibn Tabarzad al-Mu'addib .
- From Ibn Tabarzad by Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Hasan Ibn Asakir al-Dimashqi .
Later scholars referenced this collection under variant titles, such as Juz' min Hadith Abi Umar ibn Hayawayh and Juz' Ibn Hayawayh, as cited by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani . Ibn Hayawayh's narrations were also transmitted via Abu Ishaq al-Barmaki .
Contents and Manuscripts
The tract contains prophetic traditions and historical reports documented with their full chains of transmission (isnad) . Among the teachers through whom Ibn Hayawayh narrates in this part are Ishaq ibn Hamdan, Abu Ubayd Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Mu'ammal al-Sayrafi, and Abu al-Layth Nasr ibn al-Qasim al-Fara'idi . The narrated topics encompass ritual purity, wiping over leather socks, marriage stipulations, dyeing white hair, the merit of sending blessings upon the Prophet ﷺ, repentance, the virtues of the Ten Promised Paradise, and interpersonal accounts from the household of the Prophet ﷺ .
Surviving portions of this compilation—including the third, fifth, and sixth parts extracted by al-Daraqutni from the narration of al-Jawhari—are preserved in manuscript form in the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (such as Majmu' 62 and Majmu' 93) . These parts were later edited and published by Abd al-Wakil al-Nadwi (Bombay: al-Dar al-Salafiyya, 1412 AH / 1991 CE) .
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