Mashayakhat Muhyi al-Din al-Yunini
- Author died
- 747 AH
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- al-Maktabah al-‘Aṣrīyah
Mashayakhat Muhyi al-Din al-Yunini (The Mashyakha of Muhyi al-Din al-Yunini) is a hadith compilation recording the transmissions and authorities of the Hanbali scholar Muhyi al-Din 'Abd al-Qadir ibn 'Ali al-Yunini (680 or 682 – 747 AH / 1281 or 1283 – 1346 CE), extracted and arranged by the traditionist Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Sa'd al-Maqdisi (703–759 AH / 1303/4–1358 CE).
Content and Structure
The book documents the teachers of Muhyi al-Din al-Yunini—son of the scholar Sharaf al-Din 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Yunini—and transmits a representative hadith through each of them. For each shaykh, the work records their name, genealogy, honorifics, the exact date and location of the audition (sama'), the complete chain of transmission (isnad), and the received text of the hadith, followed by biographical data including birth and death dates and circumstances.
Among the teachers recorded in the collection are:
- Ibrahim ibn al-Farra' (b. ca. 612 AH / 1215 CE), who was found dead in the mosque of al-Salihiyya during the Mongol invasion in 699 AH / 1299 CE.
- Zaki al-Din Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Ba'labakki, known as Ibn al-Ma'arri (609–691 AH / 1212–1292 CE), from whom al-Yunini heard in Baalbek in 691 AH.
- Shihab al-Din Abu al-'Abbas Ahmad ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Muhad al-Yunini al-Hanafi (d. 699 AH / 1300 CE), from whom al-Yunini heard in 696 AH, and who died after being tortured when Mongol forces entered his home in al-Salihiyya.
- 'Izz al-Din Abu al-'Abbas Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Hamid ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi (ca. 612–700 AH / 1215–1300 CE), heard at Mount Qasiyun in 696 AH.
- Taqi al-Din Abu al-'Abbas Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Suri (d. 701 AH / 1302 CE), heard at the Shayzariyya mausoleum at Mount Qasiyun in 685 AH, designated as the last person to transmit directly from Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudama.
- Jamal al-Din Abu al-'Abbas Ahmad ibn Abi Muhammad al-Maghazi, heard in 688 AH.
Manuscript and Publication
The work is preserved in Damascus at the Zahiriyya Library within a collective manuscript (majmu', no. 25 Hadith, folios 30–54). It was edited by 'Umar 'Abd al-Salam Tadmuri and published in a single volume (178 pages) by al-Maktaba al-'Asriyya in Saida and Beirut in 1423 AH / 2002 CE.
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