Amali Ibn Bishran - al-Juz al-Awwal
- Author died
- 430 AH
- Editions
- Dār al-Waṭan
Amali Ibn Bishran – al-Juz al-Awwal (The Dictations of Ibn Bishran – Volume One) is the first volume of the collected hadith dictations (amālī) delivered by the Baghdadi hadith scholar and preacher Abu al-Qasim Ibn Bishran (339–430 AH / 950–1039 CE).
Author and Context
The author, Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Bishran al-Umawi al-Baghdadi, was born in Shawwal 339 AH (950 CE) and was the younger brother of the hadith transmitter Abu al-Husayn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Bishran. Ibn Bishran was a noted preacher who held admonitory assemblies at the Jami' al-Mansur and the Mosque of al-Rusafa in Baghdad. Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi described him as a trustworthy, upright, and righteous scholar who formerly testified in courts before renouncing court testimony. He died on 18 Rabi' al-Thani 430 AH (with another report placing it on 12 Rabi' al-Thani) and was buried in the Malikiyya cemetery in Baghdad next to Abu Talib al-Makki in accordance with his own bequest.
Contents and Transmission
The Amali represents dictation sessions (majālis) delivered by Ibn Bishran to his students, comprising prophetic traditions, moral narrations, and scholarly reports transmitted with their chains of narration. The work originally spanned numerous parts (ajzāʾ) that circulated across two main volumes.
The transmissions of these dictations were preserved and passed down through several prominent students and recensions:
- A transmission preserved through Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Muzaffar ibn al-Husayn ibn Sawsan al-Tammar, who narrated five sessions at the beginning of one recension.
- Transmissions through Abu Sa'd Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik al-Asadi, who transmitted concluding sessions of various parts.
- Other regular transmitters from Ibn Bishran included Abu Talib Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Basri (al-Busayri), Abu al-Khattab Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Jarrah, Abu Yasir Muhammad ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Khayyat, Abu Mansur Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Hanbali, and Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Abi al-Tayyib.
- Later traditionists, including the memorizer Abu Tahir al-Silafi, received and transmitted these parts through audition (samāʿ) and formal license (ijāzah).
Print Editions
The first volume of Amali Ibn Bishran was edited by Adil ibn Yusuf al-Azzazi and published by Dar al-Watan in Riyadh in 1418 AH (1997 CE), followed by the second volume edited by Ahmad ibn Sulayman in 1420 AH (1999 CE).
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