Majlisan min Amali al-Jawhari 1
- Author died
- 454 AH
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Majlisan min Amali al-Jawhari 1 (Two Sessions from the Dictations of al-Jawhari, Part 1) is a short hadith tract (juzʾ) dictated by the Baghdadi traditionist Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Jawhari (d. 454 AH / 1062 CE), preserving two of his instructional dictation assemblies .
Transmission and Dictation Dates
The sessions recorded in this compilation were dictated by al-Jawhari in Baghdad during the month of Muharram in 445 AH (1053 CE), with recorded dates including Friday, 12 Muharram and Friday in the middle of Muharram .
The primary line of transmission for this specific text runs through Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Muzaffar, who attended al-Jawhari’s dictations and subsequently read the work to his son, Abu al-Qasim Hibat Allah ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Muzaffar (known as Ibn al-Sibt), in Safar 522 AH . Ibn al-Sibt in turn transmitted it by reading on 28 Jumada al-Akhira 595 AH .
Contents and Scope
The work consists of twenty-seven transmitted traditions and narrations cited with full chains of transmission (asānīd) going back to the Prophet ﷺ, the Companions, and early figures . In these sessions, al-Jawhari relates traditions from several notable tenth-century Baghdadi traditionists, most prominently Abu Bakr al-Qati'i (from whom al-Jawhari heard traditions in 368 AH), Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Lu'lu' al-Warraq, and Abu Hafs Umar ibn Muhammad al-Naqid .
The narrations encompass various thematic areas:
- Virtues of the Companions and Family of the Prophet (Manāqib): Traditions concerning the merits of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan, Ali ibn Abi Talib, al-Hasan ibn Ali and al-Husayn ibn Ali, al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, and A'isha bint Abi Bakr, as well as traditions listing the Ten Promised Paradise .
- Legal and Ritual Practices: Traditions governing the formula of the tashahhud in prayer, invocations (adhkār) to be recited after the obligatory prayers, restrictions on usurious currency exchange (ribā), and guidance regarding plague epidemics .
- Eschatology and Ethics: Narrations concerning the believers beholding God in Paradise, as well as moral maxims on chivalry (murūʾah), piety, and silence .
Manuscript Preservation
A manuscript copy of this recension is preserved within the Majāmīʿ al-ʿUmariyya collection housed at the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus under Majmuʿ no. 79 (manuscript item 8, fols. 94–101) .
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