al-Thani min Mujam Shuyukh al-Dimyati

al-Thani min Muʿjam Shuyūkh al-Dimyāṭī (The Second Part of the Dictionary of the Shaykhs of al-Dumyāṭī) is the second fascicle (juzʾ) of the comprehensive biographical dictionary of hadith teachers (Muʿjam al-shuyūkh) compiled by the Egyptian Shafiʿi traditionist and genealogist Abd al-Mumin ibn Khalaf al-Dumyati (613–705 AH / 1217–1306 CE) al-Manhal al-Safi wa al-M…+1.

Background and Scope of the Work

Al-Dumyāṭī compiled his larger Muʿjam to document the numerous teachers from whom he received and transmitted hadith during his extensive scholarly travels across Egypt, Damascus and the wider Levant (al-Shām), the Hejaz, Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazīra), and Iraq al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya+1. Sources describe the complete dictionary as encompassing upwards of 1,300 shaykhs (with some accounts specifying around 1,250) al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya+1. Classical bibliographers variously record the full collection as being bound in two large volumes, four volumes, or divided into 44 distinct parts (ajzāʾ) al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya+2.

Following an established convention among hadith scholars, al-Dumyāṭī opened his dictionary with teachers bearing the name Muḥammad Akhbar Qabail al-Khazraj. This initial alphabetical section for the name Muḥammad spanned the first eight parts of the work, encompassing a total of 235 individuals al-Thamin min Mujam Shuyu….

Content and Method

As the second installment in the series, al-Thānī min Muʿjam Shuyūkh al-Dimyāṭī covers a sequence of teachers whose given names begin with Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Thani min Mujam Shuyuk…+1. The text opens with the entry of the Maliki scholar Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Tilimsānī (known as Ibn al-Sharqash or al-Jurj), who resided in Alexandria al-Thani min Mujam Shuyuk…. Subsequent entries include figures such as the judge Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Shiblī ibn Khallikān al-Irbilī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Surūr, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Nasawī, and Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Manṣūr al-Zanjānī al-Dimashqī al-Thani min Mujam Shuyuk…+3.

For each teacher, al-Dumyāṭī’s methodology incorporates several standard elements:

• Full lineage (nasab), tribal or regional affiliations (nisbas), honorifics, and known sobriquets al-Thani min Mujam Shuyuk…+1.
• Specification of the mode of audition (such as direct reading, dictation, or recitation) along with the city where the meeting occurred al-Thani min Mujam Shuyuk…+1.
• A representative hadith narrated through the teacher with a full chain of transmission (isnād) traced back to the Prophet ﷺ, often accompanied by comparative notes on variant routes (turuq) and references to standard canonical collections like Sahih Muslim, Sunan al-Nasa'i, Sunan Abi Dawud, or Jami al-Tirmidhi al-Thani min Mujam Shuyuk…+2.
• Biographical data regarding the teacher, including birth dates, death dates, and burial places, such as the Muqaṭṭam cemetery in Cairo al-Thani min Mujam Shuyuk…+1.