Juz Yala ibn Abbad
- Author died
- 230 AH
- Editions
- Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyyah
Juz Ya'la ibn Abbad (Juzʾ Yaʿlā ibn ʿAbbād, also known as Nuskhat Yaʿlā ibn ʿAbbād) is a short hadith treatise transmitted from the Basran narrator Ya'la ibn Abbad al-Kilabi (d. 230 AH / 844–845 CE), preserving a set of short-chained (ʿawālī) narrations related from the Prophet ﷺ through the Companion Anas ibn Malik.
Transmission and Content
The core of the work was received and transmitted from Ya'la ibn Abbad by the Baghdad traditionist al-Harith ibn Abi Usamah. In the opening isnād preserved in the text, Ya'la reports from his teacher Abd al-Hakam (Abd al-Hakam ibn Abd Allah al-Qasmali), who relates directly from Anas ibn Malik from the Prophet ﷺ. The transmission passed down through prominent hadith scholars, including Muʾammal ibn Khallad, Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani, Yusuf ibn Khalil ibn Badr, Abu Bakr ibn al-Muhibb, and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani.
The collection covers diverse legal rulings, ritual practices, and prophetic exhortations, including:
- The virtue of the two units of prayer before dawn: عَلَيْكُمْ بِرَكْعَتَيِ الْفَجْرِ فَإِنَّ فِيهِمَا الرَّغَائِبَ ("Observe the two rakʿahs of Fajr, for in them are desired blessings").
- Descriptions of the Prophet's prayer being brief yet complete, proper alignment and completeness in bowing and prostration, and what interrupts prayer.
- Moral and interpersonal virtues, such as compassion toward the young and veneration for elders ( مَنْ لَمْ يَرْحَمْ صَغِيرَنَا وَيُوَقِّرْ كَبِيرَنَا فَلَيْسَ مِنَّا ).
- Spiritual admonitions concerning asceticism, greed for wealth, optimism versus superstition, patience in supplication, the reckoning of good and bad deeds, and the miracle of the weeping palm trunk.
The text concludes with a supplementary group of narrations transmitted by al-Harith ibn Abi Usamah through other Basran authorities, including Rawh ibn 'Ubadah, Sa'id ibn 'Amir, and Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Ata'.
Scholarly Evaluation and Publication
Hadith critics evaluated the collection primarily in the context of its chain of transmission. Ya'la ibn Abbad was declared weak by al-Daraqutni, while Ibn Hibban listed him in al-Thiqat with the qualification that he made errors (يخطئ). Ibn Hajar observed that al-Harith ibn Abi Usamah heard multiple short-chained reports from him via Abd al-Hakam. Abd al-Hakam himself was classified as uncorroborated (munkar al-hadīth) by al-Bukhari and Abu Hatim al-Razi, and Abu Nu'aym noted that he transmitted a rejected (munkar) compilation from Anas. Several narrations from this tract also entered later compilations under the title ʿAwālī Musnad al-Ḥārith or were extracted in works on rare transmissions.
The treatise was edited by Khalaf Mahmud Abd al-Sami' and published by Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah (Beirut, 1423 AH / 2002 CE) within an edition titled al-Fawa'id li-Ibn Mandah.
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