Juz fihi Sabat Majalis min Amali Ibn Bishran
- Author died
- 430 AH
- Editions
- Manuscript published in the free Jawāmi‘ al-Kalim program affiliated with the Islamweb website
Juz' fihi Sab'at Majalis min Amali Ibn Bishran (Part Containing Seven Dictation Sessions from the Amali of Ibn Bishran) is a Hadith collection dictated by the Baghdadi traditionist and ascetic Abu al-Qasim 'Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Bishran (d. 430 AH / 1038–1039 CE), assembling prophetic traditions, narrations, and accompanying poetry .
Transmission and Structure
The work comprises seven distinct dictation sessions (majālis) delivered by Ibn Bishran from his memory and written records (imla'an min lafzihi wa-kitabihi) :
- The first five sessions were transmitted from Ibn Bishran by Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Muzaffar ibn al-Husayn ibn Sawsan al-Tammar .
- The remaining two sessions (the sixth and seventh) were transmitted from him by Abu Sa'd Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik ibn 'Abd al-Qahir ibn Asad al-Asadi .
Both transmissions converge through the later Baghdadi traditionist Abu al-Husayn 'Abd al-Haqq ibn 'Abd al-Khaliq ibn Ahmad ibn Yusuf, who audited and related the texts in 573 and 574 AH . A manuscript copy of these seven sessions was also transcribed by the Hanbali scholar Baha' al-Din al-Maqdisi for his personal study in 574 AH, preserved in Damascus within composite manuscript collection No. 75 (folios 125–134) .
Setting and Contents
The sessions were held on Fridays following congregational prayer in Baghdad, with recorded assemblies taking place at major mosques such as Jami' al-Mahdi and Jami' al-Rusafa in years including 424 AH and 428 AH .
The text spans 77 numbered entries with complete chains of transmission (isnad) . Ibn Bishran narrates through prominent tenth-century shaykhs, including Abu Bakr al-Shafi'i, Abu Bakr al-Ajurri in Mecca, Abu Ahmad Hamza ibn Muhammad ibn al-'Abbas, Abu 'Ali Ahmad ibn al-Fadl ibn Khuzayma, Abu Muhammad Da'laj ibn Ahmad, and Abu 'Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Khadir al-Asyuti . The collection covers various topics, such as virtues, prayer, pilgrimage rites, eschatology, ethical conduct, and short poetic epigrams, alongside occasional critical assessments and authentications attributed to the hadith scholar Abu al-Fath (Ibn Abi al-Fawaris) .
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