Fawaid Tammam
- Author died
- 414 AH
- Editions
- Maktabat al-Rushd
Fawaid Tammam (Fawāʾid Tammām, "The Hadith Benefits of Tammam") is a thirty-part collection of hadith and narrations compiled by the Damascene traditionist Abu al-Qasim Tamam ibn Muhammad al-Razi (330–414 AH / 941–1023 CE) . It is considered one of the most prominent works in the fawa'id (hadith extracts) genre, particularly preserving the transmissions and narrators of the Levant (Sham) .
Author and Content
The compiler, Abu al-Qasim Tamam ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Ja'far ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Junayd al-Bajali al-Razi al-Dimashqi, was born in Damascus in 330 AH and served as the leading hadith master of the city during his era . He compiled the work—consisting of thirty fascicles (ajzāʾ)—from narrations transmitted by his numerous teachers . Among those from whom he extracted material were his father Abu al-Husayn Muhammad (d. 347 AH), Khaythama ibn Sulayman, Ahmad ibn Hadlam al-Qadi, Abu al-Maymun Rashid, Abu Ali Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Fadala, al-Hasan ibn Habib al-Hasa'iri, Abu Ya'qub al-Adhra'i, and Muhammad ibn Humayd al-Hawrani .
The collection compiles rare narrations, elevated chains of transmission, and historical reports, serving as a principal reference for Syrian chains of transmission . His student Abd al-Aziz ibn Ahmad al-Kattani remarked that he had not seen anyone with greater mastery and retention of the hadiths of the Syrians than Tamam .
Transmission and Manuscripts
Fawaid Tammam was transmitted by several of Tamam's students, foremost among them Abd al-Aziz ibn Ahmad al-Kattani (d. 466 AH) . From al-Kattani, the transmission passed through Abu Muhammad Abd al-Karim ibn Hamza al-Sulami to Abu Tahir Barakat ibn Ibrahim al-Khushūʿī and Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Samad ibn Muhammad al-Harastani, continuing down to later traditionists such as Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani .
Multiple manuscript copies of the collection have survived, including:
- An ancient manuscript preserved at the Leiden University Library (MS 1733), copied in Damascus in Dhu al-Qi'da 595 AH by the hadith scholar Abu al-Tahir Ismail ibn Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Ansari, known as Ibn al-Anmati, who transcribed it based on his audition from al-Khushūʿī .
- Copies preserved in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin and the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus .
Derivatives and Editions
Due to the book's value as a repository of non-canonical and regional narrations, Nur al-Din al-Haythami compiled its unique traditions in a dedicated work of zawāʾid (hadith additions) .
Because the original text was structured around parts rather than legal chapters or thematic topics, modern scholars worked on ordering and publishing it :
- Jasim ibn Sulayman al-Fuhayd al-Dawsari rearranged and evaluated the collection topically in al-Rawd al-bassam bi-tartib wa-takhrij fawa'id Tammam .
- The original text of al-Fawa'id was edited and published by Hamdi Abd al-Majid al-Salafi in Riyadh .
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