Majlis min Amali Abi Abd Allah al-Attar
- Author died
- 331 AH
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- مخطوط نُشر في برنامج جوامع الكلم المجاني التابع لموقع الشبكة الإسلامية
Majlis min Amali Abi Abd Allah al-Attar (A Dictation Session from the Dictations of Abu Abd Allah al-Attar) is a short hadith compilation (juzʾ) by the Baghdadi hadith scholar Muhammad ibn Makhlad al-Attar (d. 331 AH / 943 CE), recording traditions dictated during a scholarly assembly.
Composition and Contents
The dictation session was held on Tuesday, 2 Safar 330 AH (October 941 CE), when al-Attar dictated a selection of traditions from his own authorities. The work contains hadiths transmitted with complete chains of narration (asānīd) from teachers such as al-Hasan ibn Arafah, Humayd ibn al-Rabiʿ, and Abu Bakr Junayd ibn Hakim al-Awdi.
The narrations encompass various legal, ethical, and doctrinal topics, including:
- Gratitude for gifts and warning against pretending to possess what one was not given.
- The virtues of remembrance (dhikr), severe warnings against aiding injustice, transgressing prescribed legal penalties, defaming believers, and unpaid debts.
- Debt delay by the wealthy, debt transfer, commercial ethics, and the straightening of rows in congregational prayer.
- Rulings regarding ritual purity (wuḍūʾ), the stern prohibition against attributing false statements to the Prophet ﷺ, and showing compassion toward children.
Transmission and Manuscripts
The primary line of transmission for this session traces back to Abu ʿUmar ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Mahdi al-Farisi, who received it directly from al-Attar. It was transmitted from him to Abu al-Hasan ʿAli ibn Muhammad ibn al-Khatib al-Anbari (read in Dhu al-Hijjah 484 AH), then to Abu al-Fath Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Baqi ibn al-Batti, and subsequently passed down through scholars including Abu Talib ʿAbd al-Latif ibn al-Qubbayti, al-Anjab ibn Abi al-Saʿadat al-Hamami, and al-Mubarak ibn ʿAli al-Mutarriz.
Manuscripts of the text are preserved within the ʿUmariyya collections (al-Majāmīʿ al-ʿUmariyya) at the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (under compilation numbers 51 and 70).
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