Dhikr al-Nar li Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi
- Author died
- 600 AH
- Editions
- Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah
Dhikr al-Nar (Arabic: ذكر النار, lit. 'The Mention of the Fire') is a hadith treatise by the Hanbali traditionist Taqi al-Din Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi (541–600 AH / 1146–1203 CE) dedicated to eschatological traditions concerning the Day of Judgment, reckoning, and the descriptions and terrors of Hellfire.
Contents and Methodology
The work compiles narrated reports detailing the events of the afterlife, including the accounting of deeds (al-hisab), wrongful conduct and the settlement of rights among servants, the terrors of the Resurrection, the physical scale and intensity of Hellfire, and the states of its inhabitants. Among its titled divisions are "Chapter on the Reckoning" (Bab al-Hisab) and "Chapter on the Mention of the Fire and Its People" (Bab Dhikr al-Nar wa-Ahliha).
In compiling the book, al-Maqdisi records hadiths through his own contiguous chains of transmission (asanid). He frequently comments on the authenticity of individual transmissions—such as grading specific chains as sound (sahih) or good (hasan)—and cross-references reports with the standard collections of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, al-Bukhari, Muslim, and al-Tirmidhi.
Transmission and Publication
The work was transmitted from al-Maqdisi by his student Ahmad ibn Abd al-Da'im al-Maqdisi. Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Rudani recorded a continuous chain of transmission for the book reaching al-Maqdisi via Ibn al-Jazari from Muhammad ibn Isma'il Ibn al-Khabbaz from Ahmad ibn Abd al-Da'im.
Manuscripts of Dhikr al-Nar are preserved in the Central Library in Mecca and on microfilm at the Islamic University of Medina. The work was edited by Adib Muhammad al-Ghazzawi and published by Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah in 1415 AH / 1994 CE.
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