al-Thani min al-Misbah fi Uyun al-Sihah
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- 600 AH
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al-Thani min al-Misbah fi Uyun al-Sihah (The Second [Part] of the Lamp Concerning the Springs of Authentic Hadiths) is an individual hadith booklet (juzʾ) compiled by the Hanbali traditionist Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi (541–600 AH / 1146–1203 CE) . It forms the second part dedicated to the unique narrations of Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (afrād Muslim) within al-Maqdisi’s larger forty-eight-part hadith project, al-Misbah fi Uyun al-Ahadith al-Sihah .
Context and Subject Matter
The parent work, al-Misbah fi Uyun al-Ahadith al-Sihah (or al-Misbah fi Uyun al-Sihah), was composed by Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi as an extraction (mustakhraj) of the hadiths found in the two canonical collections of al-Bukhari and Muslim, documented with his own chains of transmission across forty-eight parts . Within this compilation, specific sections were dedicated to narrations transmitted uniquely by Muslim rather than agreed upon by both compilers . Al-Thani min al-Misbah represents the second preserved fascicle in the series of Muslim’s solitary transmissions (al-thānī min afrād Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj) .
Method and Content
In this part, al-Maqdisi presents individual prophetic traditions by citing his own full chains of transmission through teachers such as Abu al-Tahur al-Silafi, Abu al-Fath Muhammad ibn Abd al-Baqi al-Baghdadi, Abu al-Fath Abd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Isbahani, and Abu al-Wafa' Mahmud ibn Abi al-Qasim al-Isbahani .
After recording each hadith text through his own teachers, al-Maqdisi references the specific path by which Imam Muslim reported the tradition in his Sahih (such as noting رواه عن قتيبة or رواه عن أبي كريب ) . The booklet encompasses reports on various ritual, ethical, and doctrinal topics, including:
- Rules of prayer and following the imam's movements .
- Supplications for funeral prayers .
- The night descent of God (al-Nuzūl) and the standard-bearer at the battle of Khaybar .
- Blessings upon the fruits and measures of Medina .
- The virtue of guiding others to good deeds, prohibiting tormenting people, and rulings regarding invalid vows made during captivity .
Al-Maqdisi also incorporates occasional linguistic explanations of obscure words (gharīb al-ḥadīth), referencing early lexicographers such as Abu Ubaydah and al-Kisa'i .
Manuscripts and Preservation
While much of the forty-eight parts of al-Misbah has been lost, several individual parts survive in manuscript form, predominantly among the Majāmīʿ ʿUmariyyah in the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (including the second, tenth, and eleventh parts of Muslim's unique narrations) . The manuscript of this second part is preserved in Zahiriyya's Majmūʿ 30 (fol. 231–245, also listed under hadith 345) . Additional copies and microfilms of parts of al-Misbah are kept at institutions including the Central Library in Riyadh and the Egyptian National Library in Cairo .
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