Fawaid Abi Yala al-Khalili
- Author died
- 446 AH
- Editions
- Dār Mājid ʿAsīrī
Fawaid Abi Yala al-Khalili (The Scholarly Benefits of Abu Ya'la al-Khalili) is a hadith compilation (fawaid / juz') assembled by the traditionist and judge Abu Ya'la al-Khalili (367–446 AH / 978–1054 CE), collecting selected legal narrations, textual variants, and critical remarks on transmission chains .
Content and Scope
The collection belongs to the tradition of fawaid and ajza' literature, which gathered uncommon narrations, high-isnad traditions, and specialized reports that traditionists curated from their teachers . The work focuses primarily on legal hadiths (al-ahadith al-fiqhiyya), including traditions addressing specific jurisprudence topics such as laughing aloud (al-qahqaha) and its hidden defects (ilal) .
A notable segment of the book comprises transmissions from Yusuf ibn Asim al-Razi, related to al-Khalili by his teacher Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Salih al-Qazwini through Ali ibn Salih . In addition to transmitting texts, al-Khalili provided critical commentary on solitary narrators; for instance, in recording the report that الإسلام يعلو ولا يعلى ("Islam is exalted and nothing exalts over it") along with its contextual background concerning Abu Sufyan and A'idh ibn Amr on the Day of the Conquest of Mecca, al-Khalili noted that no one transmitted it from A'idh except Hashraj .
Transmission and Reception
The work was transmitted from al-Khalili by his student the judge Ismail ibn Abd al-Jabbar al-Maki . From al-Maki, it passed to the traditionist Abu Tahir al-Silafi, and subsequently through Jafar ibn Ali al-Hamadani and al-Taqi Sulayman ibn Hamza . Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani documented receiving and reading the text via Fatima bint al-Manja through this line of transmission .
In later centuries, the book continued to be circulated and studied in hadith reading assemblies; the Hanbali scholar Ibn al-Mubarrid (Ahmad ibn Hasan ibn Abd al-Hadi) heard it read under his teachers al-Nizam Ibn Muflih and al-Burhan al-Ajluni .
Editions
The work has been edited by Abu Mus'ab Tal'at ibn Fu'ad al-Hulwani and published in a single volume by Dar Majid Asiri in Jeddah (1422 AH / 2001 CE) .
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