Amali Ibn Mandah - Riwayat Ibn Hayawayh
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- 511 AH
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Amali Ibn Mandah - Riwayat Ibn Hayawayh (Arabic: أمالي ابن منده - رواية ابن حيويه), also titled Juz' fihi min Amali Abi Zakariyya Ibn Mandah, is a collection of Hadith dictation sessions delivered by the Isfahanian traditionalist Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Abd al-Wahhab ibn Mandah (d. 511 AH / 1117–1118 CE) and transmitted by Abu Abd al-Rahman Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Hayawayh al-Habbar.
Composition and Transmission
The text records dictation sessions (amali) delivered by Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Mandah in 510 AH. The first recorded session took place on Thursday, 23 Safar 510 AH. A subsequent session was dictated on Thursday, the final day of Safar 510 AH, where Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abi Nasr al-Laftawani assisted as the dictation scribe (mustamli). Another session followed on Thursday, 6 Rabi' al-Thani 510 AH.
The author transmitted many of these traditions through his family's chain of transmission, citing his father Abu Amr Abd al-Wahhab, his paternal uncles, and his grandfather, the Hadith master Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Mandah, alongside narrations received from other scholars such as al-Tabarani and Abu al-Shaykh al-Isfahani.
Contents
The tract contains numbered prophetic traditions and biographical reports with full chains of transmission (isnads), accompanied by brief critical remarks by the author on alternative paths of transmission:
- Reports on Safiyya bint Huyayy: The opening gathering focuses on narrations concerning Safiyya bint Huyayy, her dream prior to the conquest of Khaybar, her father's and uncle's hostility toward the Prophet ﷺ, her marriage, and supplications she learned from the Prophet ﷺ.
- Angelic reports and intercession: Traditions addressing the status of the angels Jibril and Mika'il, the circumstances of the revelation of مَنْ كَانَ عَدُوًّا لِجِبْرِيلَ [al-Baqarah: 97], the dialogue between Umar ibn al-Khattab and the Jewish scholars of Medina, the virtues of Abu Bakr and Umar, and the Prophet's ﷺ intercession on the Day of Resurrection.
- Eschatology and creation: Narrations explaining Quranic verses regarding divine time and the Day of Judgment, including فِي يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ [al-Sajdah: 5] and خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ [al-Ma'arij: 4], the entry of the impoverished Emigrants into Paradise before the wealthy, the span of an epoch (al-huqb), and the gradual decrease in human lifespans since the era of Nuh.
Manuscript Preservation
A manuscript copy of this transmission is preserved within the Umariyya collections at the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (collection no. 104, treatise no. 22, folios 253–257).
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