Mutun Talib al-Ilm - al-Idafiya - 6
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Mutun Talib al-Ilm – al-Idafiyya – 6 (Texts for the Seeker of Knowledge – Supplementary – 6) is a critical edition of the classical hadith collection al-Muharrar fi Ahadith al-Ahkam by the Hanbali scholar Ibn Abd al-Hadi (705–744 AH / 1305–1344 CE), edited by Abd al-Muhsin al-Qasim, imam and preacher of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, as part of his pedagogical curriculum series .
Background and Purpose
The book forms the sixth installment of the supplementary series (al-Mutun al-Idafiyya) belonging to the broader Mutun Talib al-Ilm educational program, which aims to provide students of Islamic knowledge with verified, memorization-ready core texts across various Islamic disciplines . The editor completed the edition on 25 Muharram 1442 AH (September 2020 CE) .
To optimize the work for memorization, al-Qasim removed textual variation apparatuses, hadith reference tracing (takhrij), and lexical annotations from this student edition, while preserving the full critical apparatus in a separate scholarly edition .
Subject and Structure of the Core Text
The underlying work, al-Muharrar fi Ahadith al-Ahkam (The Refined in Legal Hadiths), is an abridged compilation of legal traditions selected from major primary hadith sources, including the Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the Sahihs of al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Sunans of Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah, and al-Nasa'i, the Jami' of al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Khuzayma's Sahih, Ibn Hibban's al-Anwa' wa-l-Taqasim, al-Hakim's al-Mustadrak, and al-Bayhaqi's al-Sunan al-Kabir .
Ibn Abd al-Hadi structured the text around the legal classifications of contemporary jurists and incorporated evaluations of authenticity, narrator appraisal (jarh wa-ta'dil), and occasional companion traditions (athar) . He took al-Ilmam by Ibn Daqiq al-Id (d. 702 AH / 1302 CE) as a base, condensing and refining it while adding hadiths omitted from al-Ilmam, providing complete wordings for abridged reports, and expanding on narrator critiques and legal hadith judgements .
Editorial Method and Manuscript Sources
The edition was established using several manuscript copies:
- A manuscript in Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya in Cairo (Hadith 532, Tal'at Collection), dated 775 AH .
- A manuscript in the National Library in Ankara (no. 24), dated 798 AH .
- A manuscript in al-Mahmudiyya Library within King Abdulaziz Library in Medina (no. 626) .
- A photographic copy at the King Fahd National Library (originating from the General Library in Riyadh, no. 104), copied around the mid-13th century AH by Abd Allah ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-Tamimi .
- A manuscript in Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya (Hadith 1711), dated 1300 AH .
- A manuscript from the library of Abd Allah ibn Ibrahim al-Salim in al-Qassim (held at King Saud University in Buraidah, no. 8), dated 1303 AH .
- A manuscript from al-Badi'iyya Library of Shaykh Badi' al-Din Shah in Sa'dabad, Pakistan .
- Portions embedded in the commentary Tahrir al-Muharrar by Abu Bakr ibn Ali al-Dimashqi, known as Ibn al-Hariri, preserved across the Chester Beatty Library (no. 3562), al-Mahmudiyya Library in Medina (no. 647), and Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya (no. 132574, copied by the commentator in 829 AH) .
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