Nuskhat Waki' an al-A'mash
- Author died
- 197 AH
- Editions
- Al-Dar Al-Salafiyyah
Nuskhat Waki' an al-A'mash (The Hadith Notebook of Waki' from al-A'mash) is an early hadith collection (juz' / nuskha) compiled from the narrations of the Kufan traditionist Waki' ibn al-Jarrah (d. 197 AH / 812 CE) on the authority of his teacher Sulayman ibn Mihran al-A'mash .
Transmission and Content
The core collection is transmitted from Waki' primarily through the transmission path of Ibrahim ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar al-Absi (also identified as al-Qassar al-Kufi), who narrated it in 278 AH . It was subsequently transmitted across generations of scholars, including Abu al-Fadl Mansur ibn Nasr al-Kaghadi in Samarqand (333 AH) and Abu Tahir Barakat ibn Ibrahim al-Khashshu'i (595 AH) .
The primary text consists of 41 numbered narrations transmitted through al-A'mash . It contains prophetic traditions (marfu'), statements of Companions (mawquf) such as Abdullah ibn Abbas, Abu Hurayrah, and Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, as well as reports from Successors including Mujahid ibn Jabr, Alqamah ibn Qays, Abu Salih al-Samman, and Ka'b al-Ahbar .
The narrations cover several distinct subjects:
- Tafsir and Eschatology: Exegetical explanations of Quranic verses from chapters such as al-Baqarah, al-Nisa', al-Hajj, and al-Taghabun, as well as reports regarding the creation of the Pen, the heavens and the earth, and the Day of Judgment .
- Virtues and Manners: Hadiths emphasizing the spreading of salam, the merits of fasting and dhikr, maintaining perspective in worldly blessings, and the explicit prohibition against reviling the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ .
- Rulings and Practices: Traditions pertaining to ritual purification, prayer, charity, pawning/pledges, and travel guidelines .
A manuscript witness also preserves an appended section (Ziyadat Nuskha Ba) containing supplementary narrations related to the virtue of seeking knowledge, theological statements, and verses of poetry referencing Ahmad ibn Hanbal .
Reception and Publication
The work is documented in classical bibliographies and catalogues of audition chains, including the Fihris of Ibn Abd al-Hadi and al-Mu'jam al-Mufahras by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani .
The text was edited by Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Jabbar al-Faryawa'i and published in Kuwait by al-Dar al-Salafiyya (second edition, 1406 AH / 1986 CE) .
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