Hadith Ibn Abi al-Makarem
- Author died
- 643 AH
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Hadith Ibn Abi al-Makarem (Ḥadīth Ibn Abī al-Makārim, The Hadith Transmissions of Ibn Abi al-Makarem) is a short hadith booklet (juzʾ) compiled by the Hanbali traditionist Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi (569–643 AH / 1174–1245 CE) . It records prophetic narrations that al-Maqdisi received through his teacher Muhammad ibn Abi al-Makarem al-Baqubi .
Origin and Transmission
The collection preserves narrations transmitted directly by the preacher and scholar Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abi al-Makarem ibn Bakhtiyar ibn Abi Nasr al-Khatib al-Ya'qubi (al-Ba'qubi, d. 617 AH / 1220 CE), also titled Baha' al-Din and known as al-Hujjah . Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi received and read these transmissions to Ibn Abi al-Makarem in the city of Daquqa in the month of Muharram, 606 AH (1209 CE) . In these reports, Ibn Abi al-Makarem transmits through his teacher, the Sufi and hadith transmitter Abu al-Waqt Abd al-Awwal ibn Isa al-Sijzi, who had taught in Baghdad .
Content and Chains
The booklet features narrations with their complete isnads (chains of transmission), including high and continuous chains through regional authorities in Herat and elsewhere . Among the texts documented in the compilation are:
- A hadith on the night prayer of the Prophet ﷺ narrated from Aisha, transmitted via Abu al-Waqt through Herati teachers, which al-Maqdisi identifies as an authentic tradition recorded by Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj .
- A chain transmitting a report from Abdullah ibn Salam concerning the revelation of Surah al-Saff ( سَبَّحَ لِلَّهِ مَا فِي السَّمَوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الأَرْضِ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ ), with serial recitation (musalsal bi-l-qira'ah) down through the scholars .
- The prophetic warning narrated by Suhayb: مَا آمَنَ بِالْقُرْآنِ مَنِ اسْتَحَلَّ مَحَارِمَهُ ("He does not believe in the Quran who deems lawful what it prohibits"), transmitted via Abu al-Waqt from Abu Isma'il al-Ansari (Shaykh al-Islam) in Herat back to Ibn Abi Hatim and his father Abu Hatim al-Razi .
- The tradition narrated from al-Nu'man ibn Bashir: الْحَلالُ بَيِّنٌ، وَالْحَرَامُ بَيِّنٌ، وَبَيْنَهُمَا مُشْتَبِهَاتٌ ("The lawful is clear and the unlawful is clear, and between them are ambiguous matters"), tracing through Abu al-Waqt to al-Farabri from al-Bukhari .
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