Majlis min Amali al-Najjad riwayat al-Mahamili
- Author died
- 348 AH
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- Manuscript published in the free program Jawāmiʿ al-Kalim belonging to Islamweb
Majlis min Amali al-Najjad riwayat al-Mahamili (A Dictation Session from the Dictations of al-Najjad, Transmission of al-Mahamili) is a short hadith collection containing narrations dictated by the Hanbali jurist and traditionist Abu Bakr al-Najjad (d. 348 AH / 960 CE) alongside subsequent scholarly additions .
Background and Transmission
The core of the work consists of a single session (majlis) dictated by Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Salman ibn al-Hasan al-Najjad in Baghdad in Shawwal 348 AH, shortly before his death in Dhu al-Hijjah of that year . The session was transmitted from him by Abu Abd Allah Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Husayn ibn al-Mahamili (343–429 AH / 954–1038 CE) .
In the year 495 AH in Baghdad, two scholars—al-Sharif Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn Abd al-Salam al-Ansari and Abu Ghalib Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Baqillani al-Karaji—transmitted the session from al-Mahamili to the hadith master Abu Tahir al-Silafi (d. 576 AH / 1180 CE) .
Contents and Structure
The preserved booklet comprises 22 numbered traditions, dividing into two consecutive segments:
- Al-Najjad's Dictation Session (Nos. 1–10): The original session dictated by al-Najjad via his direct shaykhs, including Yahya ibn Ja'far, al-Harith ibn Muhammad, Ishaq ibn al-Husayn al-Harbi, Yahya ibn Mukram, Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad, Muhammad ibn Ja'far, Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and Ismail ibn Ishaq . The traditions cover legal and devotional matters, such as the virtues of Friday bathing, noon voluntary prayers, legal penalties (hudud), ablution, clothing prohibitions (saffron-dyed garments and gold rings for men), and separating the Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages .
- Appended Narrations from al-Karaji (Nos. 11–22): A concluding set of supplementary narrations (fawa'id) transmitted by Abu Tahir al-Silafi from his teacher Abu Ghalib al-Karaji . These include traditions transmitted through prominent authorities such as al-Daraqutni and Muhammad ibn al-Muzaffar on diverse topics, including the pre-dawn meal (suhur), Zamzam water, repentance, and prophetic aphorisms .
Manuscript Preservation
A historical manuscript copy of this text survives in the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus as part of the Umariyya Madrasa collective manuscript collection (Majmu' al-Umariyya no. 106, item 2, folios 13a–17b) . Abu Tahir al-Silafi incorporated almost all of these traditions and transmissions into his own biographical hadith work, al-Mashyakha al-Baghdadiyya .
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