al-Thani min Amali Abi al-Husayn ibn Bishran
- Author died
- 415 AH
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- Manuscript published in the free Jawami' al-Kalim program affiliated with the Islamweb website
al-Thānī min Amālī Abī al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān (The Second Part of the Dictations of Abu al-Husayn ibn Bishran) is a short hadith tract preserving selected narrations from the dictation sessions (amālī) of the Baghdadi hadith scholar and notary Abu al-Husayn 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Bishran (328–415 AH / 940–1024 CE) .
Transmission and Provenance
The material in this tract originates from narrations delivered by Ibn Bishran to his students in Baghdad in 413 AH . It was transmitted through the prominent Isfahani scholar al-Ra'is Abu 'Abd Allah al-Qasim ibn al-Fadl al-Thaqafi, who heard it from Ibn Bishran and taught it in Isfahan in 488 AH . From al-Thaqafi, the text was received by the traditionist Abu Tahir al-Silafi, who transmitted it in Alexandria in Muharram 576 AH .
Subsequent transmission passed through al-Silafi's maternal grandson, Abu al-Qasim 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Makki ibn al-Hasib al-Tarabulusi . He transmitted it to Fakhr al-Din 'Ali and Shihab al-Din Ahmad (the sons of 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Abd al-Mun'im al-Maqdisi) via direct audition (samāʿ), and to Umm al-Khayr Shuhdah bint Makin al-Din al-Iskandaraniyyah via certified attendance (ḥuḍūr) in Alexandria . The text records an audition session held at Shuhdah's home in Cairo on Friday, 24 Rajab 699 AH . The surviving manuscript transcript was copied by Abu 'Uthman ibn 'Isa from the autograph of Abu 'Abd Allah ibn Rushayd Yahya ibn Abi Talib al-'Arafi in Málaga on Sunday, 26 Jumada al-Thaniyah 709 AH .
Contents and Teachers
The compilation consists of Prophetic traditions and pious narratives transmitted by Ibn Bishran from his teachers, cited with their full chains of transmission . Among the direct authorities featured are:
- Isma'il ibn Muhammad al-Saffar (from an audition in 337 AH)
- 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Misri
- Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Sulayman (al-Najjar)
- Abu 'Amr 'Uthman ibn Ahmad ibn al-Sammak
- 'Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Fakihi (in Mecca)
- Abu Sahl Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ziyad al-Qattan
- Da'laj ibn Muhammad ibn Da'laj
- 'Ali ibn Mahmud al-Misri
The texts include reports concerning the supplication of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas against an accuser in Kufa, the protection of Medina from plague and the Dajjal, the spiritual virtues of remembrance of God, sayings and ascetic anecdotes attributed to Bishr al-Hafi and al-Fudayl ibn 'Iyad, the story of the Israelite creditor who took God as his guarantor and entrusted his payment to a log cast into the sea, and the distinction of Abu 'Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah as the trustworthy custodian of the Muslim community .
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