Khamsa Ahadith Musalsalat - al-Diya al-Maqdisi
- Author died
- 643 AH
- Editions
- Dār al-Bashāʾir al-Islāmiyyah
Khamsa Ahadith Musalsalat (Five Chained Traditions), also referenced in traditional bibliographical sources as Musalsalat al-Diya al-Maqdisi, is a short hadith tract compiled by the Hanbali traditionist Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi (569–643 AH / 1174–1245 CE) . The work belongs to the genre of musalsalat—traditions in which each transmitter in the chain shares a specific verbal, behavioral, or sequential attribute .
Author and Context
Al-Maqdisi—Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid ibn Ahmad al-Sa'di al-Maqdisi al-Salihi (569–643 AH / 1174–1245 CE; another report places his birth in 567 AH)—was a Damascene hadith scholar who journeyed extensively across Iraq, Egypt, and Persia to collect transmissions . He founded Dar al-Hadith al-Diya'iyyah at the foot of Mount Qasyun in Damascus and endowed his extensive personal library there . In addition to his larger compilations, al-Maqdisi assembled numerous concise monographs (ajza') and extracted specialized hadith chains from his own transmissions, including collections devoted to chained traditions .
Subject and Transmission
The compilation gathers five prophetic hadiths transmitted through unbroken, patterned lines of transmission (musalsalat) . It is categorized in hadith literature alongside major chained compilations produced by Hanbali and non-Hanbali scholars . Later traditionists and catalogers of transmission networks, such as Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Rudani in Silat al-Khalaf and Abd al-Hayy al-Kattani in Fihras al-Faharis, recorded their continuous chains of transmission back to al-Maqdisi for his musalsalat tract .
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