Juz min Hadith Khaythama al-Atrabulsi
- Author died
- 343 AH
- Editions
- A manuscript published in the free program Jawāmiʻ al-Kalim of the Islamweb website
Juz min Hadith Khaythama al-Atrabulsi (A Hadith Part of Khaythama al-Atrabulsi) is a short collection of forty-six Prophetic hadiths transmitted by the hadith scholar Khaythama al-Atrabulsi (d. 343 AH / 954 CE) from his various teachers .
Transmission and Transmission Chain
The collection is preserved through the transmission of Abu Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ibn Uthman ibn al-Qasim ibn Abi Nasr, who heard it directly during a reading session with Khaythama . It was subsequently transmitted from Ibn Abi Nasr by Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Uqayl ibn Rish al-Bazzar through a reading session held in Rajab 463 AH, and was narrated verbally by Abu Muhammad Abd al-Aziz ibn Ahmad al-Kattani .
Structure and Teachers
The compilation consists of forty-six consecutively numbered traditions narrated with their full chains of transmission . Khaythama received these narrations from several traditionists across different cities, including:
- Abu Qilaba Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad al-Raqashi
- Yahya ibn Abi Talib
- Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Mukram ibn Hassan al-Bazzar in Baghdad
- Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sa'igh
- Amr ibn Uthman, known as Sahib al-Nil
- Amr ibn Hakkam
Content and Topics
The reports gathered in the work span legal rulings, ethical exhortations, and historical narrations:
- Legal Rulings and Rituals: Traditions concerning the fast of Ashura , the ruling on cupping while fasting , the merit of building mosques , the invalidation of prayer by speech , praying directly on the ground rather than upon a cushion when ill , the prohibition of separating enslaved siblings during a sale , and the conditions of severe hunger permitting the consumption of carrion .
- Virtues and Historical Reports: Prophetic descriptions of al-Buraq related to Abu Bakr , a report from Ali stating that the best of the community after the Prophet ﷺ are Abu Bakr and Umar , the gift of a jar of ginger presented by the Byzantine ruler to the Prophet ﷺ , and the hadith affirming that the people of the West will remain manifest upon the truth .
- Ethics and Admonitions: Warnings against hoarding food for forty days to manipulate prices , the superior reward of the believer who mingles with people and endures their harm over one who avoids them , the definition of arrogance as rejecting the truth and belittling people , the mutual responsibilities of leaders, men, women, and servants , and the recommendation to feed a sick person whatever he craves .
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