Min Hadith al-Faqih Abi al-Qasim al-Shahrazuri an Shuyukhihi
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Min Hadith al-Faqih Abi al-Qasim al-Shahrazuri an Shuyukhihi (From the Hadiths of the Jurist Abu al-Qasim al-Shahrazuri from His Teachers) is a hadith notebook (juz') compiled through dictation by the Maliki jurist Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Aziz ibn Ali al-Shahrazuri (d. 427 AH / 1035–1036 CE), assembling traditions and reports he received across various scholarly centers .
Composition and Transmission
The collection consists of traditions that Abu al-Qasim al-Shahrazuri dictated during public teaching sessions (majalis imla') held at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus . The text preserves auditor notes from specific dictation assemblies held between the years 421 AH and 422 AH, including sessions dated Friday, 5 Dhu al-Hijjah 421 AH; Friday, 20 Dhu al-Hijjah 421 AH; Friday, 19 Dhu al-Hijjah 422 AH; and Friday, 4 Muharram 422 AH .
The primary transmitter of the text from al-Shahrazuri was the Maliki jurist Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Mansur ibn Muhammad al-Ghassani . It was subsequently passed down through his son, Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Mansur al-Ghassani al-Maliki . Audition certificates recorded on the manuscript include a transmission at Ahmad ibn Mansur's residence in Darb al-Thuqat in Damascus in Muharram 467 AH recorded by the scribe Ghayth ibn Ali, as well as a later reading audited by the historian Ibn Asakir (Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Hibat Allah al-Shafi'i) in Huranah in Shawwal 519 AH .
Teachers and Sources
In the work, al-Shahrazuri cites numerous teachers under whom he studied in various regions:
- Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Wasif ibn Abd Allah al-Qattan, whom he heard in Basra .
- Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Mahmuyah al-Hinna'i (known as al-Mawardi) in Basra .
- Abu Ali Hamd ibn Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Isbahani al-Adl in Rayy .
- Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Farisi in Fars .
- Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Basiri .
- Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Minqari in Basra .
- Muhammad ibn Adi ibn Ali ibn Adi .
- Abu Hatim Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid ibn Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Labban al-Razi in Rayy .
Structure and Content
The text comprises sixty numbered traditions and narrative reports containing prophetic hadiths, legal rulings from the Companions, historical anecdotes, and poetic verses . Key subjects addressed in the collection include:
- Legal Rulings (Fiqh): The collection includes narrations concerning found property (luqatah), stray livestock, judicial verdicts on compensation and blood money (diyāt) for wounds and bodily injuries, penal boundaries such as theft exemptions on date-palm spadices, and rules regarding sacrificial offerings and fasting on the days of Ashura and Arafah .
- Theology and Eschatology: Extensive hadiths detail the vision of Allah on the Day of Resurrection (ru'yat Allah), the Bridge (al-Sirat) over Hell, and prophetic intercession (shafa'ah) .
- Virtues and Ethics (Makarim al-Akhlaq): It incorporates reports regarding the excellence of noble character illustrated by the account of the captive daughter of Hatim al-Ta'i, the virtues of the Four Caliphs, communal unity, market supplications, and sayings by early scholars such as Malik ibn Anas on the nature of knowledge .
- Poetry: The compiler includes recited poetic verses transmitted through his chains, such as lines authored by the philosopher Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi .
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