Juz al-Manadili
- Author died
- 466 AH
- Editions
- Arwiqah lil-Dirāsāt wal-Nashr
Juz al-Manadili (The Hadith Booklet of al-Manadili) is a short hadith notebook (juz') compiled from the transmissions of the Basran scholar Abu al-Qasim al-Manadili (d. after 466 AH / 1073 CE) .
Content and Structure
The full title found on its manuscript title page describes it as a booklet extracted from the original sources of al-Manadili, concluding with a lengthy narration concerning the virtues of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs (al-Khulafa al-Rashidun) . The text contains hadiths narrated by al-Manadili, followed at the end by the extended report attributed to the companion Jabir ibn Samurah concerning the Caliphs .
Al-Manadili transmitted hadith in Basra around 466 AH, and al-Dhahabi noted that two hadith booklets from his transmission were known: the primary and most famous one transmitted by Abu Ja'far al-Ghitrif ibn Abd Allah al-Sa'idani, and a smaller selection transmitted through Abu Tahir al-Silafi from Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abi Nasr al-Ushnani that formed part of the compilation titled al-Safinah al-Jara'idiyyah al-Kubra .
Transmission and Critical Assessment
The booklet was transmitted down through prominent scholars of the Levant and Egypt, and it is cited in biographical works by al-Birzali, Taqi al-Din al-Fasi, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, al-Sakhawi, and Ibn Tulun . A surviving manuscript copy preserved in the collection of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University was transcribed by Yusuf ibn Shahin, the maternal grandson of Ibn Hajar, based on an authorization (ijaza) from the Damascene traditionist A'ishah bint Ibrahim al-Shara'ihi (d. 842 AH) .
Hadith critics evaluated the final narration on the virtues of the Rightly Guided Caliphs negatively; both al-Dhahabi and Ibn Hajar noted that its chain includes Muhammad ibn Ibrahim narrating from Ahmad ibn Zufar, both of whom are unidentified figures, and designated the narration as fabricated (mawdu') .
Publication
The work was edited by Nabil Sa'd al-Din Jarrar and published in Amman in 1440 AH / 2019 CE as part of a series collecting various classical hadith booklets .
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