Mutun Talib al-Ilm - al-Idafiya - 2
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Mutun Talib al-Ilm - al-Idafiya - 2 (Texts for the Student of Knowledge: Supplementary Texts – 2) is a critical edition of the classical legal hadith primer al-Umdah fi al-Ahkam by Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi (d. 600 AH / 1203 CE), edited by Abd al-Muhsin al-Qasim, Imam and Khatib of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina . Published as the second entry in the supplementary tier of the Mutun Talib al-Ilm curricular project, the volume presents an authenticated text stripped of editorial apparatus to facilitate memorization by students of Islamic law and hadith .
Background and Contents
The core text featured in this volume, al-Umdah fi al-Ahkam, was originally compiled by al-Maqdisi in response to requests from colleagues seeking a concise collection of legal rulings restricted exclusively to hadiths agreed upon by Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari and Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj in their respective Sahih collections . Organized according to standard jurisprudence categories, the text opens with the Book of Purification (Kitab al-Tahara), beginning with the hadith of intention narrated by Umar ibn al-Khattab .
The text was incorporated into the Mutun Talib al-Ilm curriculum to serve both in-person memorization circles established at the Prophet's Mosque for younger and older students, as well as affiliated remote learning programs .
Manuscript Base and Editorial Method
Al-Qasim completed the preparation of this edition on 25 Dhu al-Qadah 1440 AH . The edition was established using several early manuscripts with transmission chains and authorization records (ijazat) connecting back to the author , including:
- A manuscript preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris (no. 726), transcribed in 742 AH from an exemplar read directly before the author and bearing his handwriting .
- A manuscript at the El Escorial Library in Spain (no. 1471), copied in 759 AH by Muhammad ibn Simak and collated against an authentic source by the scribe's grandson, containing audition records (sama'at) and authorization notes by scholars including Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi, Ibn al-Hajj al-Ballafiqi, and Muhammad ibn Mushtamil al-Aslami al-Bilyani .
- A manuscript at the Azhar Library in Cairo (no. 1836 / 92516 majami'), copied in 759 AH .
- A manuscript from the private collection of Aydarus al-Habashi in al-Ghurfah, Hadramawt, copied in 768 AH .
- Multiple manuscripts from the Süleymaniye Library in Turkey, including the Damad Ibrahim Pasha copy (no. 640), copied in 776 AH by Abu Bakr ibn Uthman (known as Ibn al-Ajami) and read before Ali ibn Muhammad al-Ayyubi al-Shafi'i; the Hazret Nasuhi copy (no. 30), transcribed in 791 AH with marginal collation marks; and the Aşir Efendi copy (no. 110), estimated from the 8th century AH and collated against a copy read to al-Maqdisi .
- A manuscript on gazelle parchment at the National Library in Rabat, Morocco (no. 27/2), transcribed in 886 AH from an exemplar bearing an audition note in the author's hand .
In this edition, the text is presented free of marginal variant readings, hadith source referencing (takhrij), and rare vocabulary glosses to make it accessible for student memorization, while these critical variants and annotations were documented separately in another expanded edition .
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