Majlisan li Abi Sad al-Baghdadi
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- 540 AH
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- مخطوط نُشر في برنامج جوامع الكلم المجاني التابع لموقع الشبكة الإسلامية
Majlisan li Abi Sa'd al-Baghdadi (Two Dictation Sessions of Abu Sa'd al-Baghdadi) is a short hadith tract (juz') dictated by the hadith scholar and ascetic Abu Sa'd al-Baghdadi (463–540 AH / 1071–1145 CE) in the Prophet's Mosque in Medina.
Transmission
The text records two dictation sessions delivered by Abu Sa'd Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Baghdadi al-Isbahani at the Prophet's Mosque. The compilation was preserved and transmitted through the traditionist Abu Hafs Umar ibn Muhammad ibn Ma'mar Ibn Tabarzad al-Baghdadi (d. 607 AH), who studied and read it to Abu Sa'd on Thursday, 9 Rabi' al-Awwal 540 AH. Ibn Tabarzad later transmitted it to Taj al-Din Abu al-Hasan Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abi al-Barakat al-Dimashqi on 19 Dhu al-Hijjah 603 AH in Damascus.
Contents
The collection contains prophetic hadiths, narrations from the Companions, and reports from early scholars and ascetics, arranged with full chains of transmission (isnad):
- Virtues of deeds and faith: Traditions regarding the best actions (faith in Allah, jihad, and an accepted pilgrimage), the three types of dwellers of Paradise, and the individuals forbidden from the Hellfire.
- Hajj and the Prophet's Mosque: The spiritual reward of departing on the pilgrimage, supplications recited upon returning from travel or military expeditions, and the virtue of praying two or four rak'ahs in the Prophet's Mosque. It also includes the account of a Bedouin visiting the Prophet's grave.
- Asceticism, piety, and transactions: Traditions on softening hard hearts through charity to the destitute and wiping the orphan's head, warnings against wealth accumulation reported by Abu Dharr, regulations prohibiting improper commercial practices sent with Attab ibn Asayd to Mecca, and cautions against subtle forms of usury (riba) as related by Abdullah ibn Salam.
- Scholarly sayings and counsel: Pious maxims on sincerity from Fudayl ibn Iyad, dialogues between Layth ibn Sa'd and the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid regarding good governance, and statements attributed to Malik ibn Anas emphasizing dignity in learning and cautioning against theological speculation (kalam).
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