Mashayakhat Sharaf al-Din al-Yunini
- Author died
- 701 AH
- Editions
- Al-Maktabah al-Asriyyah
Mashayakhat Sharaf al-Din al-Yunini (The Teacher Registry of Sharaf al-Din al-Yunini) is a hadith compilation documenting the authorities and narrations of the Hanbali scholar and hadith master Sharaf al-Din al-Yunini (621–701 AH / 1224–1301 CE) . It was compiled and extracted (takhrij) by the scholar Muhammad ibn Abi al-Fath ibn Abi al-Fadl ibn Barakat al-Ba'labakki (645–709 AH / 1247–1309 CE) .
Structure and Content
The surviving text comprises parts eight, nine, and ten of the collection, arranging hadiths transmitted by al-Yunini under each of his respective teachers :
- Part Eight: Opens with the narration of the thirty-fifth shaykh, Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Da'im al-Maqdisi, and includes other teachers such as Firas al-'Asqalani, Shams al-Din Ibn Abi 'Umar, 'Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam, al-Zayn Khalid al-Nabulsi, and Ibn 'Allan .
- Part Nine: Contains entries beginning with the forty-first teacher and covers scholars such as Qadi Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-Zaki, Majd al-Din Muhammad Ibn 'Asakir, Najib al-Din al-Shaybani, Kamal al-Din Ibn Shayth, Sharaf al-Din Ibn Sasra, 'Abd al-Wahid ibn al-Hamawi, Baha' al-Din Ibn Sasra, Taqi al-Din Ibn Abi al-Yusr, Ibn al-Bukhari, Taqi al-Din Ibn al-Wasiti, and 'Uthman ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Tha'labi .
- Part Ten: Features teachers including Taqi al-Din Sulayman al-Is'ardi, Qadi Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Khaliq, Najib al-Din al-Miqdad, Faraj al-Habashi, Shams al-Din Ibn al-Kamal, 'Imad al-Din Isma'il ibn Goscelin (Ibn Juslin), al-Shams ibn Sa'd, al-Husayn al-Irbili the man of letters, and Tughril ibn 'Abd Allah al-Turki .
Audition notes inscribed on the manuscript record readings and transmissions by the author's son, Muhyi al-Din al-Yunini ('Abd al-Qadir ibn 'Ali), as well as 'Uthman ibn al-Muqatili, 'Abd Allah Sanjar al-Dawadari, and Ahmad ibn Ya'qub ibn al-Muqri' (who heard from the beginning through part eleven), with later perusal notes by Ibn 'Abd al-Hadi (Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Hadi) .
Transmission and Publication
The surviving portions of the work were preserved in a composite manuscript in the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (Majmu' no. 73 Hadith, folios 37–67) .
The text was edited by Omar Abdelsalam Tadmuri and published in a single volume by al-Maktaba al-'Asriyya (Sidon–Beirut) in 1423 AH / 2002 CE . The edition includes an appendix containing 'Awali Sharaf al-Din al-Yunini (high-isnad narrations of Sharaf al-Din al-Yunini) as transmitted by the historian and traditionist al-Dhahabi .
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