Majlisan min Amali Tirad al-Zaynabi
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- 491 AH
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Majlisan min Amali Tirad al-Zaynabi (Two Dictation Sessions from the Amali of Tirad al-Zaynabi) is a short hadith compilation containing two dictation sessions delivered in 478 AH (1085 CE) by the Baghdadi traditionist and Abbasid chief syndic (naqib al-nuqaba') Tirad al-Zaynabi (398–491 AH / 1008–1098 CE) .
Context and Composition
Tirad al-Zaynabi was noted for holding numerous hadith dictation gatherings (amali), delivering twenty-five sessions at the Mansur Mosque (Jami' al-Mansur) in Baghdad as well as sessions in Mecca and Medina . This specific text preserves two consecutive gatherings dictated in Baghdad:
- The first session was held on Friday, 14 Sha'ban 478 AH, at the Mansur Mosque by the Gate of the Sabil of al-Radi Billah (Bab Siqayat al-Radi Billah) .
- The second session was held on Friday, 12 Ramadan 478 AH .
Transmission and Manuscript Tradition
The two sessions were received directly from Tirad al-Zaynabi by Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Qahir al-Tusi and his two sons, Muhammad and Abd al-Rahman . Abd al-Rahman al-Tusi later transmitted them to his nephew, the preacher of Mosul Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Muhsin ibn Abd Allah al-Tusi, who read them before him at the Jami' of Mosul on Friday, 20 Jumada al-Ula 558 AH . In turn, Abu Ahmad Bawzan ibn Sunqur al-Rumi audited the work from Abd al-Muhsin al-Tusi in Mosul on Thursday, 23 Rabi' al-Awwal 612 AH, appending his own audition note (sama') .
The work survives as part of the al-Majami' al-'Umariyya manuscript collection (Majmu' 94, folios 170b–173a) . Other two-session selections from Tirad's dictations were also transmitted in the classical period; Abu Sa'd al-Sam'ani recorded reading two sessions of Amali Tirad through his transmitters , and Ibn Khayr al-Ishbili documented a separate transmission of two sessions dictated by Tirad transmitted via Abu Bakr ibn al-'Arabi, with one session delivered in al-Hijr at Mecca and the other in the Rawda of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina .
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