Majlis Ibn Hazar Mard
- Author died
- 469 AH
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Majlis Ibn Hazar Mard (The Hadith Session of Ibn Hazarmard) is a short hadith booklet (juz') compiled from the dictations of the Baghdadi hadith scholar and preacher Abu Muhammad Ibn Hazarmard (d. 469 AH / 1076 CE) .
Author and Composition
The author of the session was Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn Ahmad ibn Mujib ibn Mujammi' al-Sarifini, popularly known as Ibn Hazarmard . He was born in Baghdad and served as the preacher (khatib) of Sarifin . His father's moniker Hazar Mard is a Persian expression meaning "a thousand men" .
The text preserves a hadith assembly read to Ibn Hazarmard in the month of Rajab 463 AH (with a manuscript variant recording 462 AH) by the transmitter Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Ahmad al-Baghdadi, known as Sibt Abi Mansur al-Khayyat . Sibt al-Khayyat later transmitted the text by reading in Baghdad on 11 Ramadan 530 AH to Abu al-Yumn Zayd ibn al-Hasan al-Kindi (d. 613 AH) . Al-Kindi transmitted it to several notable scholars, including Fakhr al-Din Ali ibn Ahmad Ibn al-Bukhari (d. 690 AH), Ahmad ibn Shayban al-Shaybani (d. 685 AH), Yusuf ibn Ya'qub Ibn al-Mujawir (d. 690 AH), and Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahim Ibn al-Kamal al-Maqdisi (d. 688 AH) .
Contents and Scope
The collection contains 23 numbered narrations, consisting of prophetic hadiths as well as a scholarly report . Ibn Hazarmard narrates these reports through his direct teachers, including:
- Abu al-Husayn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Akhi Mimi al-Daqqaq
- Abu Hafs Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Kattani
- Abu al-Qasim Ubayd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Hababah
- Abu Tahir Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Mukhallis
- Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Abdan al-Sayrafi
- Amat al-Salam bint Ahmad ibn Kamil
- Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Umar ibn Zanbur al-Warraq
- Abu al-Qasim Ubayd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Saydalani
- Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Harun al-Dabbi
- Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Dust Ibn al-Allaf al-Bazzaz
The first report in the booklet is a hadith narrated via Ibn Akhi Mimi from Abu al-Qasim Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Baghawi from Ahmad ibn Hanbal on the authority of Aisha describing the passing of the Prophet ﷺ while resting against her and using the tooth-stick (siwak) . The subjects treated across the booklet include virtues of the Four Caliphs and the Ten Promised Paradise, the beatific vision in the Hereafter, ethical conduct, supplications upon waking at night, and the prohibition of playing backgammon (nardashir) . It also includes an athar from Waki' ibn al-Jarrah stating that scholars sought aid in memorizing hadith by acting upon it and sought aid in pursuing it by fasting . The final narration is the famous hadith of Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud detailing the stages of human creation in the womb .
Manuscript and Reception
The text is preserved in a manuscript forming part of volume 51 of the Umariyya collections (al-Majami' al-Umariyyah), folios 158b to 180 . It belonged to the Damascene scholar Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Ali ibn Baqa' al-Mulaqqin (d. 759 AH), who heard it from Fakhr al-Din Ibn al-Bukhari and endowed it as a pious bequest (waqf) to Dar al-Hadith al-Diya'iyyah on Mount Qasyun outside Damascus . The manuscript contains numerous audition records (sama'at) between 611 AH and 757 AH, as well as an authorization (ijaza) granted to Yusuf ibn Abd al-Hadi .
In biographical and bibliographical literature, the work is cited under several titles, including Majlis Abi Muhammad ibn Hazarmard, Majlis Ibn Hazarmard al-Sarifini, Juz' Ibn Hazarmard, and Juz' min Hadith al-Sarifini . Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani distinguished this booklet from another transmission titled Majlis al-Sarifini, narrated via Abu al-Qasim al-Samarqandi, whose opening report begins with the phrase "The Mahdi went out himself..." . Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi also documented an audition of a Juz' Ibn Hazarmard al-Sarifini in 618 AH through the transmission of al-Mubarak ibn Ali al-Simmadhi, which may represent an additional distinct compilation from Ibn Hazarmard's narrations .
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