Majlis min Amali Abi Nuaym al-Asbahani
- Author died
- 430 AH
- Editions
- Dār al-Ṣaḥābah lil-Turāth
Majlis min Amali Abi Nuaym al-Asbahani (A Dictation Session from the Amali of Abu Nu'aym al-Asbahani) is a short hadith tract containing a dictation session delivered by the hadith master Abu Nu'aym al-Asbahani (336–430 AH / 948–1038 CE) .
Content and Method
The booklet preserves hadiths narrated by Abu Nu'aym with their full chains of transmission ( isnad s) . Among its contents are prophetic reports regarding voluntary fasting, such as fasting six days in the month of Shawwal following Ramadan . Following the narrations, Abu Nu'aym includes his critical evaluations of the transmitters and comments on textual rarities and unique lines of transmission (ghara'ib), such as evaluating individual narrators and noting when a specific wording is uniquely transmitted through a single narrator .
Publication
The tract was edited by Sa'id ibn Umar Ghazi and published by Dar al-Sahabah li-l-Turath in Tanta, Egypt (first edition, 1410 AH / 1989 CE) .
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