Bulghat al-Talib al-Hathith fi Sahih Awali al-Hadith li-Ibn Qudama
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- 620 AH
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- Bulghat al-Talib al-Hathith fi Sahih Awali al-Hadith li-Ibn Qudama
Bulghat al-Talib al-Hathith fi Sahih Awali al-Hadith (Arabic: بلغة الطالب الحثيث في صحيح عوالي الحديث, "The Sufficient Provision of the Eager Seeker Regarding Authentic Elevated Hadiths") is a collection of hadiths featuring elevated chains of transmission (ʿawālī) heard by the Hanbali jurist and traditionist Ibn Qudama (d. 620 AH / 1223 CE), compiled and extracted by his nephew, the hadith master Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi (569–643 AH / 1173–1245 CE) .
Authorship and Scope
The work is an audition-based compilation (mashyakha) of the transmissions received by Muwaffaq al-Din Abu Muhammad 'Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi . His nephew Diya' al-Din Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahid al-Maqdisi selected and extracted (takhrīj) the traditions from Ibn Qudama's auditions (masmūʿāt), focusing specifically on authentic reports transmitted with elevated isnads (al-ṣiḥāḥ al-ʿawālī) .
Transmission and Preservation
The text was transmitted down through several chains of scholars:
- Abu al-Fida' Isma'il ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Umar al-Munadi al-Hanbali transmitted it, and from him it was related by Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Mansur al-Jawhari and the hadith scholar al-Qasim ibn Muhammad al-Birzali .
- Scribe 'Uthman ibn Muhammad al-Daylami (also recorded as al-Daymi) recorded a line of transmission passing through 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad al-Tannukhi (or al-Hasani), through Ibrahim ibn 'Abd Allah al-Nabulsi (and Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari), from 'Abd al-Hafiz ibn 'Abd al-Khaliq ibn Badran ibn Rashid, who heard the work directly from Ibn Qudama .
- The North African scholar Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Rudani (d. 1094 AH / 1683 CE) documented his chain of transmission back to Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi in Ṣilat al-khalaf bi-mawṣūl al-salaf, noting that he possessed two parts of the book .
The complete text has not survived in full; only the second and seventh parts (al-juzʾ al-thānī and al-juzʾ al-sābiʿ) are known to be extant in manuscript form, including a copy held at the al-Azhar Library in Cairo .
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