Fawaid Muntaqah min Hadith Abi Shuayb al-Harrani
- Author died
- 295 AH
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- Manuscript published in the free program Jawāmiʿ al-Kalim affiliated with Islamweb
Fawaid Muntaqah min Hadith Abi Shuayb al-Harrani (Selected Benefits from the Hadith of Abu Shuayb al-Harrani) is a hadith booklet compiled from the transmissions of the traditionist Abu Shuayb al-Harrani (206–295 AH / 821–908 CE), largely preserving narrations from al-Awza'i via Yahya ibn Abd Allah al-Bablutti.
Transmission and Structure
The work comprises selections drawn from the first part (al-juz' al-awwal) of Abu Shuayb al-Harrani's hadith collection. The primary chain of transmission recorded at the beginning of the text passes from Abu Shuayb through Abu Sa'id al-Hasan ibn Ja'far al-Hurfi to Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Muhammad al-Jawhari (d. 454 AH), and from al-Jawhari through Abu Ghalib Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Banna' to Abu Muhammad Abd al-Khaliq ibn Abd al-Wahhab ibn al-Sabuni.
The text contains 55 numbered entries, consisting of prophetic traditions (marfu'), companion reports (mawquf), and legal and moral sayings from Successors. Virtually all the transmissions in the booklet run through a single primary transmission line: Abu Shuayb from his teacher Yahya ibn Abd Allah al-Bablutti from Abd al-Rahman ibn Amr al-Awza'i. Biographers note a close familial tie in this chain, as al-Bablutti was the husband of Abu Shuayb's mother, and al-Awza'i was the husband of al-Bablutti's mother.
Contents
The collection addresses diverse legal, ethical, and ritual topics, including:
- Ritual prayers and supererogatory devotions, such as the two voluntary units between the call to prayer and the commencement of obligatory prayer, the mid-morning prayer (salat al-duha), and early attendance at congregational prayers.
- Ethical conduct, communal unity, and warnings against doctrinal schism and arrogance.
- Family law and personal etiquette, including the equal treatment of children in gifts, marital decorum, and commercial rulings.
In addition to narrations, the work preserves linguistic observations by Abu Shuayb on uncommon terms (gharib al-hadith). In one narration regarding lawful sustenance in times of severe famine, Abu Shuayb corrects and clarifies the phrasing «تختفئوا بقلاً» (to uncover wild greens) rather than «تحتفئوا», citing a line of pre-Islamic poetry by Imru' al-Qays alongside the Quranic usage in ﴿السَّاعَةَ آتِيَةٌ أَكَادُ أُخْفِيهَا﴾ (Surat Ta-Ha: 15) to demonstrate that the root denotes revelation as well as concealment.
Manuscripts
Manuscript copies of the selection have been preserved in historical collections, including manuscripts preserved at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh and copies originating from the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus.
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