Fawaid al-Hanai = al-Hanaiyat
- Author died
- 459 AH
- Editions
- Aḍwāʼ al-Salaf
Fawaid al-Hinnai (Arabic: فوائد الحنائي), commonly known as al-Hinnaiyyat (الحنائيات), is a collection of hadith and narrations transmitted by the Damascene traditionist Abu al-Qasim al-Hinnai (378–459 AH / 988–1066 CE) and compiled for him by the hadith master Abd al-Aziz al-Nakhshabi (d. 457 AH / 1065 CE) .
Background and Compilation
The work represents a selection (intiqa') and extraction (takhrij) of traditions from the hearing records and repertoire of Abu al-Qasim al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Dimashqi al-Hinnai, who served as the leading traditionist of Damascus in his era . The compilation was prepared by his contemporary, the hadith master Abd al-Aziz ibn Muhammad al-Nakhshabi, who selected noteworthy and elevated narrations from al-Hinnai's shaykhs .
The narrations in the compilation derive from al-Hinnai's teachers, who included Abd al-Wahhab al-Kilabi, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Durustawayh, Abu Bakr ibn Abi al-Hadid, Tammam al-Razi, Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Hinnai, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Qattan, and Abu al-Hasan ibn Jahdam, among others .
Structure and Contents
The collection was organized into multiple traditional hadith fascicles (ajza'). Classical biographical sources like al-Dhahabi describe it as consisting of ten parts, whereas bibliographical records such as those of al-Suyuti and citations in later works document eleven parts .
The contents consist of prophetic hadiths, narrations from Companions, and reports from early authorities across diverse legal, theological, and ascetical subjects, each preserved with its complete chain of transmission (isnad) back to the original source .
Transmission and Preservation
The work was widely transmitted by prominent students and contemporaries of al-Hinnai. Among those who narrated from him were al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Abu Sa'd al-Samman, Ibn Makula, Makki al-Ramli, Sahl ibn Bishr, Abd al-Mun'im ibn Ali al-Kilabi, Abu al-Qasim al-Nasib, Hibat Allah ibn al-Akfani, Tahir ibn Sahl al-Isfarayini, Abd al-Karim ibn Hamza al-Sulami, Abu al-Hasan ibn al-Mawazini, Abu al-Hasan ibn Sa'id, Tha'lab ibn Ja'far al-Sarraj, and al-Hinnai's two sons, Abu Tahir Muhammad and Abu al-Husayn Abd al-Rahman .
Transmission lines of the Hinnaiyyat continued through later Syrian and regional scholars, including Abu Tahir al-Khushu'i, Ismail ibn Ibrahim ibn Abi al-Yusr, and down to later authorities such as Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani and al-Suyuti .
Manuscript copies of several individual parts survive in libraries, notably in the Zahiriyya collection in Damascus . The work has been edited by Khalid Rizq Muhammad Jabr Abu al-Naja and published under the title al-Hinnaiyyat (Fawaid al-Hinnai) by Adwa' al-Salaf in Riyadh (1428 AH / 2007 CE) .
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