Min Fawaid Abi al-Qasim Ibn Alik
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- 468 AH
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- Min Fawaid Abi al-Qasim Ibn Alik
Min Fawaid Abi al-Qasim Ibn Alik (Juzʾ min Fawāʾid Abī al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlīk al-Naysābūrī ʿan Shuyūkhih) is a short hadith collection (juzʾ) compiled by the Nishapuri traditionist Abu al-Qasim Ibn Alik (d. 468 AH / 1075–1076 CE), recording hadiths and reports transmitted from his various teachers.
Content and Structure
The work comprises twenty-nine transmitted traditions encompassing prophetic hadiths, ethical exhortations, legal rulings, and historical reports. Ibn ʿAlīk narrates these reports directly from several prominent authorities of his era, including:
- Al-Hakim al-Naysaburi
- Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami
- Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani
- Abu al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Khaffāf
- ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Aṣbahānī
- Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān al-Marārī
- Abū Yaʿlā Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Muhallabī
- Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bisṭāmī
- Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Walīd (received by written authorization, ijāzah, from Damascus)
The texts in the collection address topics such as the merit and obligation of seeking knowledge, social etiquette, ritual prayer, fasting, and warnings against fabricating traditions. The collection concludes with an account attributed to al-Hasan al-Basri concerning the demise of the prominent scholars across various regions.
Transmission and Manuscript
The preserved transmission of the booklet traces back to Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Muqriʾ al-Tiflīsī (known as al-Nātānī), who received the narrations when Ibn ʿAlīk visited Tbilisi (Tiflīs) in 468 AH. From al-Nātānī, the text was transmitted by the traditionist Abu Tahir al-Silafi. It was later transmitted through Abū al-Faḍl Jaʿfar ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Hamdānī, who read it on the nineteenth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir in the year 630 AH, with an audition (samāʿ) noted by Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Shaybānī.
The work is documented under the title Ḥadīth Abī al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAlīk in the bibliographical records of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, who traced its transmission through al-Silafī via al-Nātānī. A manuscript copy of the work is preserved in the Al-Zahiriyya Library in Damascus under the title Fawāʾid Ibn ʿAlīk ʿan Shuyūkhih.
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