al-Thani min Amali Ibn al-Sammak
- Author died
- 344 AH
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- Manuscript published in the free Jawāmiʻ al-Kalim software affiliated with the Islamweb website
al-Thani min Amali Ibn al-Sammak (The Second Part of the Dictations of Ibn al-Sammak) is a specialized hadith tract containing a collection of dictated transmissions (amali) delivered by the Baghdadi hadith traditionist Ibn al-Sammak (d. 344 AH / 955 CE) .
Origin and Transmission
The text preserves a dictation session held by Abu Amr Uthman ibn Ahmad ibn Abd Allah al-Daqqaq, commonly known as Ibn al-Sammak, on 14 Rabi' al-Awwal 342 AH (c. July 953 CE) in Baghdad . The transmission of this specific part has been preserved through his student Abu Umar Abd al-Wahid ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Mahdi al-Farisi, who received it directly through dictation and subsequently read it to later transmitters .
Content and Structure
The tract consists of prophetic traditions, biographical reports, and historical narrations relayed with full chains of transmission (isnad) tracing back to the Companions and early authorities . Ibn al-Sammak transmits these reports through prominent Baghdadi and Iraqi shaykhs, including Yahya ibn Abi Talib, Abu Awf Abd al-Rahman ibn Marzuq al-Buzuri, al-Hasan ibn al-Abbas al-Razi, Ahmad ibn Ali al-Khazzaz, and Ahmad ibn al-Khalil al-Burjulani .
The subjects treated across the tract include:
- Ritual purity and prayer: Traditions concerning the expiation of sins through proper ritual ablution (wudu), the etiquette of prayer, making up missed prayers after waking or remembering them, and bathing for Friday congregation .
- Doctrinal matters and virtues: Reports emphasizing monotheism, including narrations attributed to Mu'adh ibn Jabal stating that whoever dies worshiping God without associating partners with Him will enter Paradise .
- Rulings of worship: Rulings regarding clothing permitted in the state of ihram during pilgrimage .
- Historical and literary narratives: Accounts and anecdotes, including a report featuring the pre-Islamic poet Tarafa ibn al-Abd .
Manuscript Preservation
A historical manuscript copy of this part is preserved in Damascus at the Zahiriyya Library within the Umariyya collective manuscripts (Majmu' 89, folios 99–120) .
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