Min Hadith Abi Bakr Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Lal an Shuyukhihi
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- 398 AH
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Min Hadith Abi Bakr Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Lal an Shuyukhihi (From the Hadith of Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Lal on the Authority of His Teachers) is a hadith tract (juz') compiled by the Shafi'i jurist and hadith scholar Abu Bakr ibn Lal (308–398 AH / 920–1008 CE), recording prophetic traditions and scholarly reports received through his transmitters and teachers .
Composition and Transmission
The collection was dictated (imla') by Abu Bakr ibn Lal in the year 395 AH . The opening isnad of the text traces the narration through Abu Mansur Sa'd ibn Abi Talib Sa'id ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Khatib from Abu al-Qasim Yusuf from Ibn Lal . Other chains interspersed in the tract include transmission via formal authorization (ijaza) from Ibn Lal through Abu al-Fadl ibn Būghah to his grandson, Abu al-Fakhr Sa'd ibn Muhammad al-Karabisi al-Hamadhani, as well as narrations via Abu Bakr Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Ruzbah al-Qari' .
The preserved text contains an audition certificate registered by the Hanbali scholar Yusuf ibn Abd al-Hadi (Ibn al-Mubarrad), recording that he received the text via authorization from his teachers through Ibn al-Muhibb and Jamal al-Din ibn al-Shara'ihi, and conducted a reading session for members of his household on Thursday, 20 Jumada al-Ula 897 AH . A manuscript copy of the work is preserved in the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus within Majmu' 111 (folios 114–123) .
Contents and Scope
The tract comprises fifty numbered narrations, including prophetic hadiths, reported sayings of the Companions, and scholarly anecdotes and verses . The traditions cover a range of devotional, ethical, and theological subjects:
- Virtues of acts of worship: Narrations regarding the merits of fasting in Ramadan, the six fasts of Shawwal, and the forenoon prayer (salat al-duha) .
- Virtues of Quranic recitation: Reports on the spiritual benefits of reciting chapters such as Ya-Sin, al-Dukhan, al-Waqi'ah, and al-Sharh .
- Etiquette of learning and knowledge: Sayings and verses emphasizing the cultivation of knowledge in youth, the duty of regular scholarly revision (mudhakarah), the dignity knowledge confers, and proper deference toward teachers .
- Morals and spiritual conduct: Traditions urging humility, simplicity, reconciliation among believers, and sincere reliance on God, alongside stern warnings against pride, ostentation (riya'), and arrogance .
The tract concludes with traditions warning against self-exaltation and tyranny, ending with a hadith transmitted through Iyas ibn Salama ibn al-Akwa' from his father .
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