al-Thamin Ashar min al-Khulaiyat
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- 492 AH
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- مخطوط نُشر في برنامج جوامع الكلم المجاني التابع لموقع الشبكة الإسلامية
al-Thamin Ashar min al-Khulaiyat (Arabic: الجزء الثامن عشر من الخلعيات, lit. 'The Eighteenth Part of the Khula'iyyat'), fully titled al-Juz al-Thamin Ashar min al-Fawa'id al-muntaqah al-hisan al-sihah wa-l-ghara'ib ('The Eighteenth Part of the Selected, Excellent, Authentic, and Rare Hadith Benefits'), is a collection of hadiths narrated by the Egyptian Shafi'i traditionist Abu al-Hasan al-Khali (405–492 AH / 1014–1099 CE) .
Origin and Compilation
The text forms the eighteenth fascicle of al-Fawa'id al-Khula'iyyat, a twenty-part hadith compendium extracted from the narrations of Abu al-Hasan al-Khali . The hadiths across these parts were selected and compiled (takhrij) by Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Husayn al-Shirazi (also cited as Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Shirazi) .
Content and Method
The eighteenth part consists of prophetic traditions recorded with full chains of transmission (isnad) going back through al-Khali's direct teachers . Prominent authorities through whom traditions in this part are related include:
- Abu Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ibn Umar ibn Muhammad ibn Sa'id al-Nahhas, transmitting from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ziyad ibn al-A'rabi .
- Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hajj al-Ishbili .
- Abu Sa'd Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Malini al-Harawi, transmitting from Abu Ahmad Ibn Adi .
- Abu Abd Allah Shu'ayb ibn Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn al-Minhal .
The traditions in this part address various topics, including travel etiquette, prohibitions on specific prayer times, fasting on the two Eid days, the sanctity of public authority, and narrations concerning earlier companions and battles .
Transmission and Reception
The twenty parts of al-Khula'iyyat were transmitted primarily through al-Khali's student Abd Allah ibn Rifa'ah al-Sa'di (d. 561 AH) . Subsequent traditionists, including Abu Sadiq al-Hasan ibn Yahya ibn Sabah and Muhammad ibn Imad al-Harrani, transmitted the work from Ibn Rifa'ah across Egypt, Damascus, and Alexandria . Later scholars such as Salah al-Din al-Ala'i and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani obtained transmission licenses and certificates of audition for the eighteenth part and the remainder of the collection . Al-Ala'i characterized the collection as abundant in valuable hadith points (fawa'id) and distinguished by elevated chains of narration (asaneed 'aliyah), considering it among the highest transmitted hadith corpuses from the scholars of Egypt .
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