Awali Tirad al-Zaynabi
- Author died
- 491 AH
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- Arwiqa lil-Dirasat wa-al-Nashr
Awali Tirad al-Zaynabi (The Elevated-Isnad Narrations of Tirad al-Zaynabi) is a collection of hadiths featuring elevated chains of transmission (‘awālī) transmitted by the Baghdadi nobleman and hadith narrator Abu al-Fawaris Tirad ibn Muhammad al-Zaynabi (d. 491 AH / 1098 CE), selected and extracted (takhrīj) from his primary audition notebooks by the hadith master Abu Ali al-Baradani (d. 498 AH) .
Title and Scope
The full formal title found in primary manuscript copies is al-Fawāʾid al-muntaqāh al-ṣiḥāḥ al-ʿawālī takhrīj al-shaykh al-ḥāfiẓ Abī ʿAlī al-Baradānī lil-sharīf al-kāmil naqīb al-nuqabāʾ Abī al-Fawāris Ṭirād ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī ʿan shuyūkhih (Selected, Authentic, Elevated Benefits Extracted by the Hafiz Abu Ali al-Baradani for the Syndicate Dean Abu al-Fawaris Tirad ibn Muhammad al-Zaynabi from His Teachers) . It is cited in similar phrasing in Mashyakhat al-Qazwini and the Fihrist of Ibn Khayr al-Ishbili, whereas other manuscripts and bibliographical reference works, such as Hajji Khalifa’s Kashf al-zunun, refer to it by the shorter designations ʿAwālī Ṭirād, ʿAwālī Ṭirād al-Zaynabī, or al-Awwal wa-l-thānī min ʿawālī Ṭirād .
The work is organized into two parts (juzʾān) and consists of carefully selected sound (ṣiḥāḥ) and elevated (ʿawālī) prophetic narrations that Tirad heard directly from his Baghdadi teachers .
Transmission and Reception
Awali Tirad was widely studied and transmitted among later generations of hadith scholars across Iraq, the Levant, and the Hijaz . A primary line of transmission for both parts runs through Tirad’s prominent student, the renowned calligrapher and transmitter Shuhdah al-Katibah . From Shuhdah, the collection was transmitted down to scholars including Ali ibn al-Muqayyir, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Qati'i, and Yunus ibn Sa'id al-Muqri', and subsequently received by authors such as Muhibb al-Din al-Tabari, al-Radi al-Tabari, Sulayman ibn Hamza, Salah al-Din al-'Ala'i, Siraj al-Din al-Qazwini, and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , .
Scholars cited narrations from Awali Tirad in their audition records (mashyakhāt) and indices (fihrists) as a source of high-level transmission routes (abdāl ʿāliyah) linking their chains directly to the classical collections of Muslim and al-Nasa'i .
Manuscript Tradition
The text is preserved in historical manuscript copies, including a manuscript preserved in the Köprülü Library and an 881 AH copy preserved in the Kittani Library (Majmu‘ 452) transcribed by Muhammad ibn Muhammad Mansur al-Husayni .
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