Majlisan min Amali al-Jawhari_3
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- 454 AH
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- مخطوط نُشر في برنامج جوامع الكلم المجاني التابع لموقع الشبكة الإسلامية
Majlisan min Amali al-Jawhari (Two Sessions from the Dictations of al-Jawhari) is a Hadith compilation comprising the seventh and eleventh dictation sessions delivered by the Baghdadi Hadith scholar Abu Muhammad al-Jawhari (d. 454 AH / 1062 CE) .
Compilation and Transmission
The collection was extracted and arranged (takhrīj) by Tahir al-Naysaburi from the Hadith repertoire and authorities transmitted by Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Muhammad al-Jawhari . The text was transmitted directly from al-Jawhari by Abu Ghalib Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Banna, who heard the seventh session read to al-Jawhari on Thursday, 13 Sha'ban 454 AH .
In turn, Abu Hafs Umar ibn Muhammad ibn Ma'mar ibn Tabarzad transmitted the text from Abu Ghalib ibn al-Banna—with the eleventh session read to Abu Ghalib in Jumada al-Ula 524 AH—and relayed it at Mount Qasyun outside Damascus to a group of scholars including Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abd al-Da'im, Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Wahid, and Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab ibn Muhammad al-Maqdisi .
Structure and Content
The work consists of two discrete dictation sessions focusing on seasonal acts of worship:
- The Seventh Session (al-Majlis al-Sābi‘): Contains Hadiths and narrations regarding fasting during the month of Sha'ban and the virtues and divine forgiveness associated with the middle night of Sha'ban (Laylat al-Niṣf min Sha‘bān) . The session concludes with two lines of poetic verse regarding religious piety and shedding grudges .
- The Eleventh Session (al-Majlis al-Ḥādī ‘Ashar): Focuses on the merits of Ramadan, glad tidings regarding its arrival, the virtues of fasting with faith and anticipation of reward (īmānan wa-iḥtisāban), the requirement of forming the intention to fast prior to dawn (tabyīt al-ṣiyām), and the traditions encouraging hastening the breaking of the fast (ta‘jīl al-fiṭr) and taking the pre-dawn meal (al-suḥūr) .
Manuscript Preservation
A manuscript copy of these two sessions is preserved in the Majāmī‘ al-‘Umariyyah collection at the Zahiriyyah Library in Damascus (under compilation no. 79, manuscript no. 12, folios 131–142) .
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