Mashyakhat Ibn Hadhlam
- Author died
- 347 AH
- Editions
- A manuscript published in the free program 'Jawami' al-Kalim' affiliated with Islamweb
Mashyakhat Ibn Hadhlam (Arabic: مشيخة ابن حذلم) is a hadith compendium compiled by the Damascene judge and scholar Ahmad ibn Sulayman ibn Hadhlam (d. 347 AH / 958 CE), assembling traditions transmitted through his various teachers.
Content and Transmission
The work—also known as Juzʾ min Hadith Ibn Hadhlam ʿan Shuyukhih (جزء من حديث ابن حذلم عن شيوخه) or simply Juzʾ Ibn Hadhlam—belongs to the mashyakha genre, which documents the narrations a scholar received directly from his shaykhs. Ibn Hadhlam was a prominent legal authority and hadith transmitter in Damascus, where he taught the school of al-Awza'i and held regular dictation sessions at his home.
Among the teachers from whom he transmitted in his collection were his father Sulayman, the judge Bakkar ibn Qutayba, Yazid ibn Abd al-Samad, Sa'd ibn Muhammad al-Bayruti, Abu Zur'ah al-Dimashqi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Hamza, and al-Hasan ibn Jarir al-Suri. The text was transmitted from him by students such as Tammam al-Razi, Ibn Mandah, al-Husayn ibn Mu'adh al-Darani, Abu Abd Allah ibn Abi Kamil, and Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Nasr. Later traditionists, including Ibn al-Muhibb al-Samit, cited traditions directly from Juzʾ Ibn Hadhlam in their works.
Manuscripts and Publication
Manuscript copies of the work are preserved in several collections, including a manuscript at the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (Majmuʿ 101, folios 143–153) and a copy at the Chester Beatty Library (MS 3495, folios 55–56), transcribed in 738 AH, as well as a photographic facsimile kept at the Süleymaniye Library in Istanbul.
The text has been printed under the title Juzʾ min Hadith Ibn Hadhlam ʿan Shuyukhih aw Mashyakhat Ibn Hadhlam within the compendium Ahadith al-Shuyukh al-Kibar (Sidon–Beirut: Al-Maktaba al-Asriyya, 2012 CE), while related transmissions from his corpus were edited by Muhammad Ziyad 'Umar Tuklah under the title Min Hadith Ahmad ibn Sulayman ibn Hadhlam as part of Jamharat al-Ajzaʾ al-Hadithiyya (Riyadh: Maktabat al-Obeikan, 2001 CE).
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