Buzugh al-Hilal fi al-Khisal al-Mujiba lil-Zilal
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Buzugh al-Hilal fi al-Khisal al-Mujiba lil-Zilal (The Rising of the Crescent on the Traits that Grant Shade) is a hadith treatise by al-Jalal al-Suyuti (d. 911 AH / 1505 CE) that compiles and analyzes the prophetic traditions and reports concerning the righteous deeds and qualities that earn shade under the Throne of God on the Day of Resurrection.
Background and Purpose
The basis of the subject is the widely narrated hadith concerning the seven categories of people shaded by God on the Day of Resurrection. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani had previously tracked other narrations and expanded the enumerated qualities to twenty-eight. Al-Suyuti further traced available narrations and their supporting transmissions (shawāhid), compiling an exhaustive work with full chains of transmission (asānīd) and evaluations of transmitters, which brought the total count of shade-earning qualities to seventy.
Al-Suyuti then composed Buzugh al-Hilal as an abridged booklet (kurrāsa) of that comprehensive work, designed for readers seeking the textual content without lengthy chains of transmission.
Structure and Method
In this abridgment, al-Suyuti omitted the full transmission chains, restricting each entry to:
- The text of the hadith (matn) and the Companion who narrated it.
- The primary source collectors who recorded the tradition (mukharrijūn).
- An assessment of the narration's authenticity in terms of soundness or weakness.
- Brief indications of supporting parallel routes.
The material is structured in groups of seven traits (sabʿāt):
- The First Seven Traits: The well-known group reported in the sound hadith collections, supplemented by poetic verses by Abu Shama summarizing them.
- The Additions of Ibn Hajar: Two groups of seven traits (fourteen traits) identified by Ibn Hajar, accompanied by his evaluation of their chains and his mnemonic verses summarizing them.
- The Additions of al-Suyuti: Further groups of seven traits tracked and documented by al-Suyuti, including deeds such as maintaining family ties, providing for orphans, comforting the bereaved, and teaching the Quran, interspersed with his own poetic versifications until completing the seventy traits.
Al-Suyuti also noted that he included a poetic versification of these seventy traits in his commentary on the Muwatta of Malik.
Editions
The work was edited by Mashhur Hasan and published alongside al-Suyuti's related treatise Tamhid al-Farsh fi al-Khisal al-Mujiba li-Zill al-'Arsh by Maktabat al-Manar in Zarqa, Jordan (1407 AH / 1987 CE).
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