Juz al-Ghadairi
- Author died
- 414 AH
- Editions
- al-Dar al-Athariyyah
Juz' al-Ghada'iri (The Hadith Part of al-Ghada'iri) is a small collection (juz') of hadith transmitted by the Baghdadi traditionist Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn al-Hasan al-Ghada'iri (d. 414 AH / 1023 CE) from his various teachers.
Content and Transmission
The collection consists of hadiths and narrations received by al-Ghada'iri from prominent Baghdadi scholars, including Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Salman al-Najjar (from whom he heard dictation in 345 AH), Ismail ibn Muhammad al-Saffar, Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Suli, and Abu Amr ibn al-Sammak.
The text opens with a hadith narrated by al-Bara' ibn 'Azib on the authority of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, reporting that the Prophet ﷺ went out after sunset and remarked upon hearing a sound: هذه أصوات يهود تعذب في قبورها ("These are the voices of Jews being punished in their graves"). The collection concludes with reports (athar) transmitted concerning Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz.
The primary transmission of the juz' stems from al-Ghada'iri's student Abu Abd Allah al-Qasim ibn al-Fadl al-Thaqafi, who heard it from him in Isfahan during the year 438 AH. From al-Thaqafi, it was transmitted by Abu Tahir al-Silafi (who read it in 488 AH), through whom later scholars—including Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani and al-Suyuti—obtained their chains of transmission for the work.
Reception and Publication
The collection was widely circulated among hadith scholars; al-Dhahabi described it as a well-known juz' that he himself heard through chains going back to al-Silafi and al-Thaqafi.
A manuscript copy of the work is preserved at the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus within a compilation (Majmu' 105, folios 195–205). The work was edited by Abu Abd Allah Hamza al-Jaza'iri and published by al-Dar al-Athariyya in Amman, Jordan (first edition, 1430 AH / 2009 CE), appearing as part of a collective volume of hadith treatises.
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