Juz Ibn Fil
- Author died
- 311 AH
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Juz Ibn Fil (The Hadith Monograph of Ibn Fil) is a collection of Prophetic traditions compiled by the hadith master Abu Tahir al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Fil al-Balisi al-Antaki (d. ca. 311 AH / 923 CE) .
Author and Context
The author, Abu Tahir al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Fil al-Asadi al-Balisi, traced his familial origins to Kufa . He traveled across the Levant, residing in Balis, Antioch—where he served as an imam—and later Circesium (Qarqisiya) . He undertook hadith journeys after 240 AH and lived to nearly ninety years of age before dying shortly after 310 AH (or ca. 311 AH) . His reliability was affirmed by al-Daraqutni, who declared him trustworthy (thiqah), and al-Dhahabi noted that no disparagement against him is known . His father, Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Fil (d. 284 AH), was likewise a hadith scholar from whom al-Nasa'i and others transmitted .
Content and Transmission
Juz Ibn Fil is characterized by al-Dhahabi as a well-known monograph containing rare and atypical transmissions (ghara'ib) . The collection preserves traditions narrated by Ibn Fil from various authorities, including Abu Kurayb Muhammad ibn al-'Ala', Muhammad ibn Sulayman Luwayn, Harun ibn Musa al-Farawi, Yahya ibn Uthman, Malik ibn Sulayman al-Himsi, and al-Husayn ibn al-Hasan al-Marwazi .
The text was transmitted down through a chain of transmitters beginning with the judge of Adana in Egypt, Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Bundar (who heard it in Sha'ban 385 AH), through Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Sa'id ibn Nafis al-Muqri' (d. 451 AH), Abu Ja'far Yahya ibn al-Musharraf ibn al-Tammar (d. 517 AH), and Abu al-Qasim Hibat Allah ibn Ali al-Busiri (d. 592 AH) . Later scholars cited narrations directly from the work, including Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya in Jala' al-Afham, Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, and al-Dhahabi .
Manuscripts and Publication
A manuscript of the monograph is preserved at the National Library of Egypt (Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya) in Cairo within composite manuscript collection No. 1558 Majami', copied in 635 AH . Another copy is indexed in the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh .
The work has been edited and published by Musa Isma'il al-Basit (Jerusalem: Matba'at Maswadi, 1421 AH / 2001 CE) .
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