Mashyakhat Abi al-Hasan al-Sukkari
- Author died
- 386 AH
- Editions
- Manuscript published in the free program Jawami' al-Kalim affiliated with Islamweb website
Mashyakhat Abi al-Hasan al-Sukkari (Arabic: مشيخة أبي الحسن السكري, also transmitted under the title Juzʾ min Ḥadīth Abī al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Ḥarbī al-Sukkarī ʿan Shuyūkhih) is a hadith tract (juzʾ) compiled by the Baghdadi traditionist Abu al-Hasan al-Harbi (296–386 AH / 908–996 CE), containing prophetic narrations and reports transmitted through his various teachers .
Author and Context
The author was Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Umar ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Shadhan al-Sukkari al-Harbi, an authority on hadith in Baghdad who was born at the beginning of Muharram 296 AH and began hearing hadith in 303 AH . Regarded by later scholars as the most senior surviving transmitter of his generation in Baghdad, he died in late Shawwal 386 AH . His compilations and transmissions are frequently known in hadith literature as the Harbiyyat .
Content and Sources
The compilation consists of hadiths and reports transmitted by al-Sukkari al-Harbi from several 4th-century AH Baghdadi scholars, including:
- Ali ibn Ishaq ibn Zatiya al-Makhrami
- al-Haytham ibn Khalaf al-Duri
- Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn Abd al-Jabbar al-Sufi
- Shu'ayb ibn Muhammad ibn Ali al-Dhari'
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Shami
The recorded narrations encompass a variety of legal rulings, devotional practices, and moral exhortations, including the recommendation to use the tooth-stick (siwak) upon waking for night prayer, the prescription of Hajj, the legal threshold for amputation in theft, night prayer (witr), funeral etiquette, and eschatological signs .
Transmission
The text preserves an authenticated chain of transmission:
- It was read to Abu al-Hasan al-Sukkari al-Harbi, who verified it in Safar 386 AH, by the Hanbali jurist al-Qadi Abu Ya'la Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn al-Farra' .
- Abu Ya'la transmitted it by reading to Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Baqi al-Bazzaz in 456 AH .
- Al-Bazzaz transmitted it to Abu al-Futuh Yusuf ibn al-Mubarak ibn Kamil al-Khaffaf in Muharram 535 AH, who subsequently transmitted it in Baghdad in Rabi' al-Akhir 598 AH .
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