Fadd al-Wia fi Ahadith Raf al-Yadayn bil-Dua
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- 911 AH
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Fadd al-Wia fi Ahadith Raf al-Yadayn bil-Dua (Unsealing the Vessel Concerning the Hadiths of Raising the Hands in Supplication) is a specialized hadith treatise written by the Egyptian scholar al-Jalal al-Suyuti (d. 911 AH / 1505 CE) . The work is devoted to collecting and assessing prophetic traditions and narrations regarding the practice of raising hands while supplicating (dua) .
Subject Matter and Content
In the introduction to the treatise, al-Suyuti posits that narrations describing the Prophet raising his hands in supplication have reached the degree of thematic mass-transmission (tawatur ma'nawi), citing over forty such hadiths that he gathered directly . He elsewhere explains that while individual reports describe disparate historical occasions and are not individually recurrent (mutawatir), their shared common denominator—raising the hands during prayer and supplication—is established by mass transmission across the entire corpus .
In addition to narrations on raising the hands, the treatise addresses related practices, including wiping the face after concluding a supplication . In evaluating the report transmitted by Hammad ibn Isa on this subject, al-Suyuti noted that its narrators were otherwise those of the authentic collections (sahih) aside from Hammad, whom he characterized as a righteous elder of weak memory, concluding that the narration reached the rank of hasan (fair) on account of supporting corroborations (shawahid) .
In the critical edition prepared by Muhammad Shakur al-Mayadini, the text comprises 59 narrations in total: 47 connected (mawsul), 9 hurry-transmitted (mursal), and 3 companion reports (mawquf) .
Reception and Manuscripts
The book became a standard reference in hadith methodology for illustrating the concept of tawatur ma'nawi . Its conclusions were acknowledged by later scholars, including Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Kattani in Nazm al-Mutanathir min al-Hadith al-Mutawatir, and it was referenced by commentators such as Muhammad Abd al-Rahman al-Mubarakfuri in Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi .
Manuscript copies of the work are preserved across various collections, including the Berlin State Library, the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, the Egyptian National Library (Dar al-Kutub) in Cairo, the Süleymaniye Library in Istanbul, and King Saud University Library in Riyadh . Early lithograph printings were issued in Delhi in 1302 AH and 1311 AH alongside other treatises, and a modern edition was published in Zarqa, Jordan, in 1405 AH (1985 CE) .
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