Fawaid Muhammad ibn Makhlad
- Author died
- 331 AH
- Editions
- Matba'at al-Fath
Fawa'id Muhammad ibn Makhlad (Arabic: فوائد محمد بن مخلد, lit. 'The Hadith Benefits of Muhammad ibn Makhlad') is a collection of hadith transmissions compiled by the Baghdadi hadith scholar and traditionist Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Makhlad al-Attar (233–331 AH / 848–942 CE) .
Author and Context
The compiler, Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Makhlad ibn Hafs al-Duri al-Attar, was born in Baghdad in Ramadan 233 AH (848 CE) and resided in the quarter of al-Dur on the eastern side of the city . He was recognized among contemporaries and later biographical authorities as a reliable and trustworthy traditionist (thiqah ma'mun), an ascetic, and one of the principal transmitters of high-ranking chains of narration (uluww al-isnad) of his era in Baghdad . Ibn Makhlad died in Jumada al-Akhira 331 AH (942 CE) at the age of ninety-seven .
Nature and Transmission
The work belongs to the traditional hadith fawa'id (benefits) genre, which consists of selected narrations preserved by a scholar from his various masters . It incorporates narrations received from his teachers, including figures such as Ya'qub al-Dawraqi, al-Hasan ibn 'Arafa, and Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj .
A surviving manuscript tract of the fawa'id is preserved in the Al-Zahiriyya Library in Damascus as part of a collective volume compiled alongside benefits of Abu Bakr al-Najjad (d. 348 AH) and a poem on the Sunnah by Ibn Abi Dawud, bearing reading certificates and the handwriting of the traditionalist Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi (d. 600 AH) .
Modern Editions
The text was edited by Salah ibn 'Iyad al-Shalahi and published by Matba'at al-Fat-h in Giza (al-Haram) .
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