Majlisan min Amali al-Jawhari 2
- Author died
- 454 AH
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- Manuscript published in the free Jawāmi‘ al-Kalim program affiliated with Islamweb
Majlisan min Amali al-Jawhari 2 (Arabic: مجلسان من أمالي الجوهري_٢, Two Dictation Sessions from the Amālī of al-Jawharī) is a short hadith compilation dictated by the Baghdad-based scholar Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Jawhari (d. 454 AH / 1062 CE) .
Transmission and Compilation
The text represents two dictation sessions (majlisān) from al-Jawhari's dictations, which were extracted and compiled (takhrīj) by the traditionist al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Thabit) .
The transmission (riwāyah) of this specific selection was passed down from al-Jawhari through the judge Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Baqi ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Bazzaz, and from him by Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Mubarak ibn Ahmad al-Mu'adhdhin and Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Hamid ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Ussiyyah al-Harbi .
Content and Scope
The collection contains twenty-three numbered transmissions, encompassing prophetic hadiths and narrations from the Companions and early generations across legal rulings, ethical conduct, supplications, and theological virtues . Among its primary contents are:
- Legal and ritual topics: Rulings regarding facing away from the Qiblah while answering the call of nature , three prohibited times for prayer and burial , opening supplications recited at the beginning of ritual prayer , and recommendations regarding voluntary fasting .
- Moral character and spiritual exhortations: Traditions on contentment with Allah's decree, good neighborliness, avoiding excessive laughter , reviving the prophetic Sunnah , parental duties in educating children , and patience during bodily or familial afflictions .
- Virtues and historical reports: Descriptions of the physical attributes of the Prophet ﷺ , the Prophet's supplication for his uncle al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib and his family under a mantle , the elevated rank of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and Umar ibn al-Khattab , and narrations attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muhammad al-Baqir warning against extremism, hatred, or reviling the early caliphs .
Al-Jawhari cites narrations through several prominent earlier teachers, including Abu Bakr al-Qati'i, Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya al-'Atashi, and al-Daraqutni .
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