Hadith Ibn Rizquyah

Hadith Ibn Rizquyah (Arabic: حديث ابن رزقويه) is a collection of Prophetic traditions and transmitted reports narrated and dictated by the Baghdadi hadith scholar Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rizquyah (325–412 AH / 937–1022 CE) Tarikh al-Islam+1.

Origin and Scope

The collection represents the transmissions and dictation sessions (amali) of Ibn Rizquyah, an authority on hadith and Shafi'i jurisprudence in Baghdad Tarikh al-Islam. Having begun his formal audition of hadith in 337 AH under prominent scholars such as Ismail ibn Muhammad al-Saffar and Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Amr al-Razzaz (Ibn al-Bakhtari), Ibn Rizquyah later held dictation sessions in the Great Mosque of Baghdad (Jami' al-Madina) from after 380 AH until shortly before his death in 412 AH Siyar Aalam al-Nubala.

Structure and Transmission

The material transmitted from Ibn Rizquyah has been preserved and cataloged in distinct parts and recensions:

• Juz' Ibn Rizquyah al-Saghir (The Shorter Part of Ibn Rizquyah): Transmitted through his student Abu al-Khattab Nasr ibn Ahmad ibn al-Batir, this compilation opens with the tradition of al-Muhallab concerning 'Uthman ibn 'Affan and concludes with the phrase "as 'Umar commanded you" (kama amaraka 'Umar) al-Mujam al-Mufahras = Ta…+1.
• Juz' Ibn Rizquyah al-Kabir (The Greater Part of Ibn Rizquyah): Also transmitted through Nasr ibn al-Batir and recorded via Abu Tahir al-Silafi, this compilation concludes with the phrase "perhaps God will grant you benefit thereby" (la'all Allah an yanfa'akum) al-Mujam al-Mufahras = Ta…+1.
• Juz' fihi Majlisan min Hadith Ibn Rizquyah (A Part Containing Two Sessions from the Hadith of Ibn Rizquyah): Transmitted by Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Abi 'Uthman from Ibn Rizquyah al-Mujam al-Mufahras = Ta….
• Al-Juz' al-Tasi' min Amali Abi al-Hasan ibn Rizquyah (The Ninth Part from the Dictations of Abu al-Hasan ibn Rizquyah): Documented in biographical indices as a distinct session from his public dictations al-Mujam al-Mufahras = Ta….

Reception and Scrutiny

Ibn Rizquyah was widely recognized for his trustworthiness and precision; al-Khatib al-Baghdadi noted that Ibn Rizquyah was the first shaykh from whom he recorded hadith, attending his dictation in 403 AH after Ibn Rizquyah had lost his eyesight Siyar Aalam al-Nubala.

Due to the prestige of his chains of transmission, later figures sought attribution to his texts. The Sufi preacher Abu Bakr al-Turaythithi (known as Ibn Zahra) claimed to have heard a juz' of Ibn Rizquyah's hadith directly from him al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-…+1. However, when Abu al-Qasim al-Samarqandi attended a reading of the text and asked al-Turaythithi for his birth year, al-Turaythithi replied that he was born in 412 AH—the exact year of Ibn Rizquyah's death; al-Samarqandi consequently crossed out the audition certificate on the manuscript, prompting al-Turaythithi to leave the mosque al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-…+1.

Manuscripts and Editions

Manuscripts of Hadith Ibn Rizquyah are preserved in several archival collections, including the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (MSS 37 and 3774), the Manuscript Library in Kuwait, and the Central Library of Umm al-Qura University in Makkah Khizanat al-Turath - Fihr…. The text was published digitally within the Jawami' al-Kalim collection in 2004 al-Balagha al-Umariyya.