Hadith Mutayyan
- Author died
- 297 AH
- Editions
- Dār al-Amal
Hadith Mutayyan (Juzʾ fīhi min ḥadīth Abī Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymān al-Ḥaḍramī) is a short hadith tract (juzʾ) preserving transmissions of the Kufan traditionist Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Sulayman al-Hadrami, widely known by the moniker Mutayyan (202–297 AH / 817–910 CE) .
Background and Author
Mutayyan was born in 202 AH (817/818 CE) and became one of the foremost hadith authorities of Kufa, writing narrations from more than five hundred scholars . He composed extensive treatises, including a Musnad, a biographical history (al-Tārīkh), and a Quranic commentary (Tafsīr); however, most of his major works were lost, leaving only two small collections extant in manuscript form . Mutayyan died in Rabiʿ al-Awwal 297 AH (November/December 909 CE)—or Rabiʿ al-Thani according to another report .
Contents and Transmission
The text consists of 42 chains of transmission (isnāds) conveying Prophetic traditions recorded from Mutayyan's direct teachers . The transmission line preserved in the surviving manuscript stems from Mutayyan’s centenarian student Abu al-Hasan ʿAli ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi al-Sari al-Bakkaʾi al-Kufi (d. 376 AH) .
The chain of transmission down to later centuries traces from al-Bakkaʾi through Abu ʿAbd Allah Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Nahawandi, Abu Mansur Muhammad ibn al-Muzaffar al-Muʿaddil, the renowned hadith scholar Abu Tahir al-Silafi, Abu al-Hasan ʿAli ibn Hibat Allah Ibn Bint al-Jummayzi, Abu Ahmad Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Tabari al-Makki, Abu Muhammad ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Nashawari, the female transmitter Umm Haniʾ Maryam bint ʿAli al-Hurini, and Abu al-Fadl ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad al-Qalqashandi alongside his son Abu al-Fath Muhammad .
Manuscript and Publication
The collection is preserved uniquely in the Feyzullah Efendi collection in Istanbul . It has been critically edited by Khalid ʿAbd al-ʿAzim al-Huwayni and published in a single volume alongside Mutayyan's other surviving companion collection, Juzʾ fīhi min al-akhbār wa-al-ḥikāyāt min kalām al-ʿulamāʾ (transmitted via Abu Muhammad Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad al-Khuldi, containing 74 isnāds) .
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