Majlisan min Amali Ibn Sa'id
- Author died
- 318 AH
- Editions
- Manuscript published in the free program Jawāmi‘ al-Kalim affiliated with Islamweb
Majlisan min Amali Ibn Sa'id (Two Sessions from the Dictations of Ibn Sa'id) is a hadith booklet (juz') by the Baghdadi hadith master Ibn Sa'id (228–318 AH / 843–930 CE), recording Prophetic traditions and historical reports he dictated in Baghdad .
Transmission and Composition
The text comprises two dictation sessions transmitted directly from Ibn Sa'id by Abu al-Qasim Ubayd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Ali al-Muqri', known as Ibn al-Saydalani . Ibn al-Saydalani recorded the first session in his own handwriting on Saturday, with five nights remaining in Shawwal 318 AH, at the entrance of Ibn Sa'id's residence in Sikkat Sa'id in Baghdad .
Abu al-Qasim Abd Allah ibn al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Khallal heard the work from Ibn al-Saydalani in the latter's mosque at Bab al-Sham on Monday, with seven nights remaining in Rabi' al-Awwal 394 AH . It was subsequently transmitted from al-Khallal by Isma'il ibn Ahmad al-Samarqandi and Abu al-Barakat Abd al-Baqi ibn Ahmad al-Narsi .
Structure and Content
The collection contains 53 numbered narrations distributed across two sessions:
- First Session: Contains reports 1 through 27, opening with a hadith forbidding backgammon ( مَنْ لَعِبَ بِالنَّرْدِ فَقَدْ عَصَى اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ , "Whoever plays backgammon has disobeyed Allah and His Messenger") and concluding with the narration regarding dyeing the hair of Abu Quhafah on the day of the conquest of Mecca .
- Second Session: Designated in the manuscript as Majlis akhar ("Another Session"), spanning reports 28 through 53 . It begins with Ibn Abbas's report on shortening prayers during travel and concludes with traditions praising al-Hasan and al-Husayn .
The narrations cover diverse topics, including legal rulings, prayer, commerce, the virtues of the Ansar, and historical narratives such as Suraqa ibn Ju'shum's pursuit of the Prophet ﷺ during the Hijrah . Interspersed throughout the text are Ibn Sa'id's critical remarks regarding narrator chains (isnad), rare traditions (gharib), and lexical clarifications .
Manuscripts
Manuscript copies of the work are preserved in the Zahiriyyah Library in Damascus within the al-Majami' al-Umariyyah collection (Majmu' 87, folios 82–90; and Majmu' 90, folios 48–58) .
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