Fawaid Ibn al-Salt wa Abi Ahmad al-Fardi

Fawaid Ibn al-Salt wa Abi Ahmad al-Fardi (Arabic: فوائد ابن الصلت وأبي أحمد الفرضي, lit. 'Selected Traditions of Ibn al-Salt and Abu Ahmad al-Fardi') is a specialized collection of hadith (juz'), compiling selected narrations transmitted by the two Baghdad scholars Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Salt (d. 405 AH / 1014–1015 CE) and Abu Ahmad al-Fardi (Ubayd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Muslim, d. 406 AH / 1015–1016 CE) from their teachers Fawaid Ibn al-Salt wa Abi….

Transmission Chain

The compilation survived through an audition chain (sama' and qira'ah) beginning with al-Qadi Abu al-Husayn Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Simnani, who received the narrations directly from both Ibn al-Salt and Abu Ahmad al-Fardi in 464 AH Fawaid Ibn al-Salt wa Abi…+1. The text was subsequently transmitted through:

• Abu Muhammad Yahya ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Tarrah al-Mudir, who read it before al-Simnani in Jumada al-Ula 534 AH Fawaid Ibn al-Salt wa Abi…+1.
• The philologist and transmitter Abu al-Yumn al-Kindi (Zayd ibn al-Hasan, d. 613 AH), who transmitted it in Damascus during a reading session on Tuesday, 14 Ramadan 599 AH Fawaid Ibn al-Salt wa Abi…+1.
• The Ayyubid prince Abu al-Abbas Ahmad, son of Sultan Salah al-Din (Saladin), who heard the collection from al-Kindi, as documented by al-Kindi's own handwriting on the title folio Fawaid Ibn al-Salt wa Abi….

Structure and Contents

The work contains a total of 57 traditions divided into two distinct sections corresponding to the two transmitters Fawaid Ibn al-Salt wa Abi…+1:

• Part One (Nos. 1–19): Traditions selected from the first and second parts of al-Simnani's original copy containing the narrations of Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Salt Fawaid Ibn al-Salt wa Abi…. In this section, Ibn al-Salt narrates through various authorities, including Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Samad al-Hashimi, al-Husayn ibn Isma'il al-Mahamili, Ahmad ibn Ja'far al-Munadi, Abu Harun Musa ibn Muhammad al-Ansari, and Muhammad ibn Makhlad Fawaid Ibn al-Salt wa Abi…+1.
• Part Two (Nos. 20–57): Traditions transmitted by Abu Ahmad Ubayd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Muslim al-Fardi Fawaid Ibn al-Salt wa Abi…+1. Throughout this entire section, al-Fardi narrates from his principal shaykh, Abu al-Husayn Abd al-Samad ibn Ali al-Tasti, who in turn transmits from different scholars across Iraq and Khuzestan, including figures from Kufa, Basra, al-Ahwaz, and Askar Mukram Fawaid Ibn al-Salt wa Abi…+1.

The texts encompass prophetic hadiths and narrations on ritual prayer, fasting, charity, virtues of the Prophet's companions, and moral ethics Fawaid Ibn al-Salt wa Abi…+1.

Publication

The work was edited by Nabil Sa'd al-Din Jarrar and published in a single volume as part of a series of manuscript parts (Silsilat al-Ajza' al-Mansukhah, nos. 1–3) by Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah in Beirut (first edition, 1429 AH / 2008 CE), appearing alongside Fawa'id Ibn Bujayr and an unrelated fifty-eight-hadith collection Fawaid Ibn al-Salt wa Abi….