Min Hadith Abi Ali al-Lihyani an Shuyukhihi
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- 350 AH
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Min Hadith Abi Ali al-Lihyani an Shuyukhihi (From the Hadith of Abu Ali al-Lihyani from His Teachers) is a specialized hadith compilation (juz' ) assembled by the fourth-century AH scholar Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Lihyani (d. c. 350 AH / 961 CE) .
Content and Structure
The work comprises seventy-one numbered narrations, encompassing prophetic traditions as well as reports (athar) from the Companions and early authorities . The material spans diverse legal, ritual, and devotional subjects, including prayer regulations, pilgrimage, ablutions, the virtue of reciting Quranic surahs, the prohibition of intoxicants, and the merits of the Companions .
Abu Ali al-Lihyani gathered these narrations through chains of transmission heard directly from various scholars across different regional centers:
- A substantial portion of the initial half is transmitted through Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi (Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Aziz), who cites prominent authorities such as Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ismail ibn Ishaq al-Qadi, and Ali ibn al-Ja'd .
- Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Sa'id, transmitting numerous traditions related to legal rulings and ethics .
- Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Isma'il ibn Nubatah, heard in Mayyafariqin in Rabi' al-Akhar 317 AH .
- Abu al-Qasim Hashim ibn Nufayr and Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Tazadh in Mosul .
- Abu Abd Allah Ubayd Allah ibn Abd al-Samad ibn al-Muhtadi and Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Ghaylan in Baghdad .
- Other teachers, including Abu Abd Allah Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Ma'bad al-Sha'iri, Isma'il ibn al-Abbas al-Warraq, Ahmad ibn Ishaq ibn Buhlul, and Musa ibn Muhammad ibn Habib .
Transmission and Manuscript Heritage
The principal transmission route of the text is preserved through the judge Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Jarir (also referenced as Ahmad ibn Hariz) ibn Ahmad ibn Khamis al-Salmasi, who arrived in Damascus as a pilgrim and transmitted the text there . A reading of the work took place before al-Salmasi in Damascus at Dar al-Hijazah on Monday morning, the 17th of Ramadan 428 AH .
Audition and collation notes on the surviving manuscript record that several scholars copied, collated, or attended readings of the text in Damascus, including Muhammad ibn Hamzah ibn Muhammad al-Qurashi, al-Husayn ibn al-Khadir ibn Abdan, Isma'il ibn al-Anmati, Abd al-Wahid ibn Ali ibn al-Khadir al-Dimashqi, and Abu al-Qasim Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ali al-Massisi . The manuscript of the juz' has been preserved in the collections of the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (no. 59/3795) .
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