Muntaqa min al-Juz al-Awwal wa al-Thalith min Hadith al-Marwazi
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- 329 AH
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Muntaqa min al-Juz al-Awwal wa al-Thalith min Hadith al-Marwazi (Selection from the First and Third Parts of the Hadith of al-Marwazi) is a short hadith tract (juz') containing selected traditions transmitted by the Iraqi traditionist Abu al-Qasim Hamid Rasuh (d. 329 AH / 940 CE) from his teachers.
Content and Transmission
The work comprises an abridged selection drawn from the first and third parts of the hadith collection narrated by Abu al-Qasim ‘Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Yazid al-Marwazi al-Baghdadi, who was commonly known as al-Hamid or Hamid Rasuh.
The transmission chain (riwayah) of the preserved text runs through:
- Abu ‘Ali Ahmad ibn ‘Umar ibn Muhammad ibn Khurashidh Qawlah, who narrated it directly from Hamid Rasuh.
- Abu al-Husayn Muhammad ibn Makki ibn ‘Uthman ibn ‘Abd Allah al-Azdi al-Misri.
- Abu ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn ‘Ali ibn Abi al-‘Ala’.
- Abu Muhammad ‘Abd al-Razzaq ibn Nasr ibn al-Muslim ibn Nasr al-Najjar.
A copy of the manuscript was formally endowed (waqf) by the traditionist Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi.
Manuscripts and Publication
Manuscript copies are preserved in the al-Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (under Majmu‘ 92, fol. 10) and in the Central Library in Riyadh (no. 1623/f).
The treatise was edited by Muhammad Zaki ‘Abd al-Da’im and published by Maktabat al-Rushd in Riyadh in 1423 AH / 2003 CE. It has also been published within multi-text compilations of early hadith booklets.
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