Juz al-Qasim ibn Musa al-Ashayib

Juz' al-Qasim ibn Musa al-Ashayib (The Hadith Booklet of al-Qasim ibn Musa al-Ashayib) is a classical collection of Prophetic hadiths and scholarly traditions compiled around the transmissions of al-Qasim ibn Musa al-Ashayb (d. 302 AH / 914–915 CE) Juz al-Qasim ibn Musa al-…+1.

Transmission and Structure

The full title given in the manuscript is Juz' fihi min Hadith al-Qasim ibn Musa al-Ashayib, wa-min Hadith Zakariyya ibn Yahya al-Sijzi, Hadith al-Ifk wa-Ghayrih Juz al-Qasim ibn Musa al-…+1. It was preserved and transmitted by the Syrian traditionist Abu al-Qasim Ali ibn Ya'qub ibn Abi al-'Aqib al-Hamdani al-Dimashqi (d. 353 AH / 964 CE) Juz al-Qasim ibn Musa al-…+1. It was also transmitted through the reading of Abu al-Hasan Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Yasir al-Dimashqi in his home located in Zuqaq al-Rumman in Damascus Juz al-Qasim ibn Musa al-….

The text is divided into two primary parts:

• The Transmissions of al-Qasim ibn Musa al-Ashayib: Covering narrations numbered 1 through 84 Juz al-Qasim ibn Musa al-…+1. Within this section, al-Qasim quotes multiple authorities, including Ibn Abi al-Dunya, Abu Sa'id al-Ashajj, al-Abbas ibn Muhammad al-Duri, Ziyad ibn Ayyub, and Hajjaj ibn Hamza, in addition to narrating written materials directly from the notebook of his grandfather, al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Ashayb Juz al-Qasim ibn Musa al-…+1.
• The Transmissions of Zakariyya ibn Yahya al-Sijzi: Spanning narrations 85 through 92, transmitted by Ibn Abi al-'Aqib from Abu Abd al-Rahman Zakariyya ibn Yahya al-Sijzi from Sufyan, focusing on legal traditions, nocturnal prayers, and an extensive narration of Hadith al-Ifk regarding A'isha Juz al-Qasim ibn Musa al-…+1.

Content and Topics

The booklet encompasses varied subject matters across Islamic law, devotional practices, exegesis (tafsir), and ethical conduct:

• Acts of Worship and Ethics: Supplications recited between prostrations, fasting the six days of Shawwal and Ashura, congregational prayer, cleanliness rituals, and the obligation of seeking knowledge Juz al-Qasim ibn Musa al-…+1.
• Quranic Exegesis and Prophetic Traits: Reports on the merits of Surat al-Fatiha, descriptions of Paradise and heavenly palaces, and explanations of individual Quranic verses Juz al-Qasim ibn Musa al-…+1.
• Historical and Biographical Reports: Accounts involving the Companions, historical anecdotes concerning early caliphs, ethical aphorisms from figures such as Ibrahim ibn Adham and Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak, and theological statements by traditionists such as Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi regarding the uncreated nature of the Quran Juz al-Qasim ibn Musa al-…+1.

Preservation

The manuscript of the work is preserved at the al-Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (Majmu' 61, folios 139–149) and has been made accessible through modern digital hadith compilations Mujam Tarikh al-Turath al…+1.