Fawaid Abi Dharr al-Harawi
- Author died
- 434 AH
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- Maktabat al-Rushd
Fawaid Abi Dharr al-Harawi (The Hadith Benefits of Abu Dharr al-Harawi) is a collection of transmitted traditions compiled by the Hadith scholar and jurist Abu Dharr al-Harawi (d. 434 AH / 1043 CE) from his various auditory transmissions (masmu‘at) .
Composition and Contents
The work belongs to the fawa'id and ajza' genre of Hadith literature, preserving selected traditions and reports that Abu Dharr transcribed and received from his teachers across major scholarly centers . A recorded transmission indicates that Abu Dharr dictated selections from his book in the year 419 AH .
The text brings together prophetic traditions, moral discourses, historical narrations, and literary verses transmitted through diverse chains of authority:
- Prophetic hadiths on the firmest bonds of faith, the virtues of beneficial knowledge, and ethical conduct, transmitted through authorities such as Abu Bakr ibn ‘Abdan al-Hafiz in Ahvaz .
- Narrations concerning the Day of Judgment, accountability, and the redress of grievances (al-mazalim) .
- Lengthy prophetic addresses, such as the sermon delivered at Tabuk, transmitted through Abu Hafs Umar ibn Ahmad ibn Uthman (Ibn Shahin) via al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar .
- Literary and poetic accounts, including elegiac verses by the pre-Islamic poet Bishr ibn Abi Khazim, received through Abu Bakr ibn Shadhan from the grammarian Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Arafa (Niftawayh) .
- Reports and dream visions concerning early scholars such as Malik ibn Anas, Sufyan al-Thawri, and al-Awza'i, as well as traditions on the virtues of fasting the day of Ashura transmitted through Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Hamawayh al-Sarakhsi .
Transmission
The collection was preserved and transmitted through several chains of narration. One prominent line of transmission runs through Abu Dharr's son, Abu Maktum Isa ibn Abi Dharr, and down to Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Abbasi, Abu al-Fadl Abd al-Salam ibn Abd Allah al-Dahiri, Abu al-Khattab Mahfuz ibn Umar ibn al-Hamid, and Abu al-Haram Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Qalanisi, who transmitted it in 763 AH . It was subsequently read before the female Hadith transmitter Umm al-Fadl Hajar bint Muhammad al-Qudsi in 868 AH . Another recorded transmission traces directly from Abu Dharr's dictation in 419 AH through the father of Abu al-Fadl Ja‘far ibn Isma‘il al-Ansari .
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