Awali Malik Riwayat Hisham bin Ammar
- Author died
- 245 AH
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- Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī
Awali Malik: Riwayat Hisham bin Ammar (High Chains of Malik: Transmission of Hisham ibn Ammar) is a short hadith compilation documenting elevated-chain narrations ('awali) transmitted directly from Imam Malik ibn Anas (d. 179 AH / 795 CE) by the Damascene traditionist, jurist, and Quran reciter Hisham ibn Ammar (153–245 AH / 770–859 CE) .
Background and Transmission
The collection originates from Hisham ibn Ammar's journey to Medina to study under Malik ibn Anas . Hisham recounted that his father sold a house for twenty dinars to finance his travel for Hajj and to hear hadiths from Malik . Upon arriving at Malik's assembly, Malik initially ordered him disciplined with seventeen strikes of a switch when he posed questions abruptly, but after learning of his background and dedication, Malik dictated seventeen hadiths to him and answered his queries .
The primary surviving line of transmission for this text was received through Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Khuraym al-Uqayli (d. 315 AH), who heard the narrations directly from Hisham ibn Ammar in Damascus . It was subsequently passed down through Damascene scholars, including Abu al-Husayn Abd al-Wahhab ibn al-Hasan al-Kilabi in the Umayyad Mosque in 391 AH, Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn Ali al-Kafartabi in 448 AH, and Abu Mansur Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Hibat Allah al-Shafi'i in 605 AH . In bibliographic traditions, Ibn Khayr al-Ishbili cataloged Hisham's collection under the title Musnad Abi al-Walid Hisham ibn Ammar an Malik ibn Anas, noting alternate transmission chains through Abu Ya'qub Ishaq ibn Abi Hassan al-Anmati and Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn al-Fayd al-Ghassani .
Contents
The collection contains twenty-four individual texts consisting of prophetic traditions (marfu'), statements of Companions (mawquf), and historical remarks transmitted by Malik . Malik's direct authorities cited across the work include:
- Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri
- Nafi' (the mawla of Ibn Umar)
- Sumayy (the mawla of Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Rahman)
- Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Hazm
- Ishaq ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi Talha
- Safwan ibn Sulaym
- Zayd ibn Aslam
- Abu al-Zanad
- Ja'far ibn Muhammad
The subject matter addresses diverse areas of ritual law, ethics, and legal judgments, including:
- Ritual purity and ablution rulings, including the purity of seawater and ablution after lying down to sleep
- Prayer, covering the fixed prayer times written by Umar ibn al-Khattab to his governors and delaying prayer during intense midday heat
- Commercial and legal rulings, such as transactions involving pollinated palm trees, the prohibition of earnest money sales (bay' al-'urban), and the Prophet's ﷺ ruling on judgements using an oath alongside a single witness
- Biographical and historical reports, including the Prophet's ﷺ entry into Mecca during the Conquest wearing a helmet, and Malik's remarks regarding the caliphates of Abu Bakr and Umar
Publication
The work was edited by Muhammad al-Hajj al-Naser and published in a single compendium titled al-'Awali 'an Malik ibn Anas al-Imam alongside six other transmissions of Malik's 'awali (including those of Abu Ahmad al-Hakim, Zahir ibn Tahir al-Shahhami, Sulaym ibn Ayyub al-Razi, al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Abu al-Yumn al-Kindi, and Umar ibn al-Hajib al-Amini) by Dar al-Gharb al-Islami in Beirut (2nd ed., 1998 CE) .
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