Juz al-Alf Dinar lil-Qutayi
- Author died
- 368 AH
- Editions
- Dar al-Nafais
Juz al-Alf Dinar lil-Qutayi (The Thousand Dinars Part of al-Qati'i) is a hadith tract (juz') containing selected narrations transmitted by the Baghdadi hadith scholar Abu Bakr al-Qutayi (274–368 AH / 887–979 CE) .
Identity and Naming
The work constitutes the first part of a five-part hadith compilation titled al-Fawa'id al-muntaqat al-afrad al-ghara'ib al-hisan min hadith Abi Bakr al-Qati'i (or al-Fawa'id al-muntaqat al-'awali), an anthology selected from al-Qati'i's hadith corpus by the hadith master Umar ibn Ja'far ibn Abi al-Sari al-Basri (d. 357 AH) . The wider five-part collection is also referred to collectively as al-Qati'iyyat .
The tract acquired its distinctive epithet, Juz' al-Alf Dinar ("The Part of the One Thousand Dinars"), from a remark by Ibn Bukayr, who praised the booklet stating: "This is a remarkable part containing Su'alat Ibn Malik; to whoever heard it, it is worth a thousand dinars besides the description of its weight" . Ibn Bukayr added that he had paid Ibn Malik a gold dinar so they could read the text to him, and that it was attained only by those who heard it on that day .
Content and Transmission
The collection preserves narrations transmitted with their chains of transmission (isnad) from al-Qati'i's teachers . These authorities include Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Bishr ibn Musa al-Asadi, Muhammad ibn Yunus al-Kudaymi, and Abu Khalifah al-Jumahi . The text covers various prophetic traditions and reports, including questions and doctrinal queries (su'alat) .
The transmission of the work passed from al-Qati'i through his student Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn 'Ali al-Jawhari, and subsequently through figures including Abu Ghalib Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Banna, Umar ibn Tabarzad, and Abu Tahir al-Silafi .
Preservation and Editions
The tract was published in Kuwait by Dar al-Nafa'is in 1414 AH, edited by Badr ibn 'Abdullah al-Badr . Although the printed cover erroneously described it as the fifth part of the Fawa'id, manuscript evidence confirms it as the first part of the set . Other surviving portions of the broader work, such as the fourth part, are preserved in manuscript form in libraries including the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus .
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