Juz Ibn Tharthal
- Author died
- 408 AH
- Editions
- T al-Ilmiyya · t Jarrar
Juz Ibn Tharthal (Arabic: جزء ابن ثرثال) is a hadith compendium assembled by the Baghdadi hadith transmitter Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Tharthal (317–408 AH / 929–1018 CE), containing the narrations he transmitted after settling in Egypt .
Background and Content
Ibn Tharthal heard hadith in Baghdad starting around 326 AH before relocating to Egypt . According to his student Muhammad ibn Ali al-Suri and biographical accounts, this single juz' represents the entirety of what Ibn Tharthal narrated in Egypt .
The work is organized into four dictation sessions (majalis) received directly from four of his Baghdadi teachers :
- Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Isma'il al-Mahamili (d. 330 AH)
- Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Batha al-Tamimi (d. 332 AH)
- Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Makhlad al-Duri al-Attar (d. 331 AH)
- Abu al-Qasim Umar ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Harun al-Askari
In addition to these sessions, the compilation incorporates folios of narrations transmitted through al-Mahamili on the authority of Yusuf ibn Musa al-Qattan, arranged by companion chains such as the musnad narrations of Ka'b ibn 'Ujra, Rafi' ibn Khadij, and Abd Allah ibn Umar .
Title and Transmission
The book is commonly known as Juz Ibn Tharthal or Juz Abi al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Tharthal . On the title page of the manuscript preserved in the al-Zahiriyya Library, it is titled al-Sudasiyyat li-Ibn Tharthal (The Six-Narrator Chains of Ibn Tharthal), followed by an expanded description stating that it contains narrations of al-Mahamili collected and transmitted by Ibn Tharthal .
The text was transmitted from Ibn Tharthal by several prominent scholars, including Ibrahim ibn Sa'id al-Habbal, Muhammad ibn Ali al-Suri, and the judge Muhammad ibn Salama al-Quda'i . Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani noted its widespread circulation (juz' mashhur) and recorded his own chains of transmission back to al-Habbal and al-Busiri in al-Mu'jam al-mufahras and al-Majma' al-mu'assas . The transmission was also documented by scholars such as al-Dhahabi, Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, and Ibn Tulun .
Manuscripts and Editions
Manuscripts of the text are preserved in the al-Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (Majmu' 94) and the Egyptian National Library (Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya, Hadith 1558) .
The work has been published in modern editions:
- Edited by Khilaf Mahmud Abd al-Sami' and published by Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya (Beirut, 2002), included within a collection titled al-Fawa'id li-Abd al-Wahhab ibn Mandah .
- Edited by Nabil Sa'd al-Din Jarrar and published by Arwiqah (Amman/Beirut, 2019) within the compilation Majmu' fihi Musannafat Tirad al-Zaynabi wa-Ajza' Hadithiyya Ukhra .
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