Min Ahadith Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Dhuhali Riwayat al-Maqli Anhu
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Min Ahadith Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Dhuhali Riwayat al-Maqli Anhu (Traditions of Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Dhuhli via the Transmission of al-Maqli) is a collection of hadith narrated by the Khorasani traditionist Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Dhuhli (d. 258 AH / 872 CE) and transmitted by his student Abu Ali al-Maqli .
Transmission and Isnads
The text represents a specialized hadith monograph (juz') containing the narrations that Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ma'bad al-Maydani al-Maqli received directly from al-Dhuhli in Nishapur in the month of Rabi' al-Awwal 339 AH . From al-Maqli, the compilation was transmitted by Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn Ahmad al-Jarashi al-Naysaburi, and subsequently through a single line of authorities including al-Salar Abu al-Hasan Makki ibn Mansur al-Karaji and the traditionist Abu Tahir al-Silafi (d. 576 AH) .
In later generations, the chain passed through al-Silafi's grandson, Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman ibn Makki ibn al-Hasib . Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi observed that the surviving transmission of al-Dhuhli's hadith preserved through al-Silafi's grandson reached an exceptionally elevated degree of chain proximity ('uluww) . The manuscript preserves continuous audition notes (sama'at) through later scholars, including readings before authorities linked to the circle of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani and his descendants down through the ninth century AH .
Structure and Content
The collection contains 112 numbered traditions, tracing al-Dhuhli's direct narrations from major traditionists of his era . The majority of the reports feature chains running through Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, reflecting al-Dhuhli's renowned specialization in al-Zuhri's corpus . Among the primary teachers through whom al-Dhuhli transmits the material in this work are:
- Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani (predominantly via Ma'mar ibn Rashid from al-Zuhri)
- Bishr ibn Umar al-Zahrani (via Malik ibn Anas from al-Zuhri)
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi
- Abu Dawud al-Tayalisi
- Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Firyabi
- Uthman ibn Umar ibn Faris
- Yazid ibn Harun, Affan ibn Muslim, and Said ibn Mansur
The collection opens with a prophetic report prohibiting mutual envy, severing ties, and turning away from one another: لا تَحَاسَدُوا ولا تقاطعوا وَلا تَدَابَرُوا وَكُونُوا عِبَادَ اللَّهِ إِخْوَانًا ("Do not envy one another, do not sever ties with one another, do not turn your backs on one another, and be servants of God, brethren") .
The contents encompass a diverse range of legal and ethical subjects, including:
- Ritual purity and prayer: rulings on recitation in prayer, miswak, praying in a single garment, night vigils, raising hands, and the forenoon (duha) prayer .
- Fasting and pilgrimage: spiritual merits of fasting, the spiritual retreat (i'tikaf), combining prayers during travel, and rites in Mecca .
- Transactions and family law: commercial ethics, inheritance shares of grandmothers, and fulfilling maternal vows .
- Virtues and history: the merits of Abu Bakr, Umar ibn al-Khattab, and Ali ibn Abi Talib, as well as accounts of the Prophet's interactions during the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, the Conquest of Mecca, and the plague of Sargh during Umar's caliphate .
The text concludes at narration 112 with a tradition transmitted via Abd al-Razzaq regarding the impermissibility of folk counter-magic (al-nushrah), stating that it is from Satan .
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