Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
Qita min Nataij al-Afkar fi Takhrij Ahadith al-Adhkar
- Author died
- 852 AH
- Editions
- Al-Faruq al-Hadithah lil-Tiba'ah wal-Nashr
Qit‘a min Nata’ij al-Afkar fi Takhrij Ahadith al-Adhkar (A Portion of The Fruits of Thoughts on the Takhrij of the Hadiths of al-Adhkar) represents the surviving portion of the hadith extraction and evaluation work (takhrij) authored by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (773–852 AH / 1372–1449 CE) on the supplication manual Kitab al-Adhkar by al-Nawawi (631–676 AH).
Composition and Transmission
The work originated as dictation sessions (amali) delivered by Ibn Hajar in Egypt, notably at the Baybarsiyya madrasa. Ibn Hajar did not finish the full takhrij of al-Adhkar before his death, delivering 660 dictation sessions—reaching up to session 291 of the takhrij, which corresponded to session 671 of his Egyptian dictations at the Baybarsiyya.
His student Burhan al-Din al-Biqa'i attended these sessions and recorded them; a surviving manuscript copy preserved in the Köprülü Library in Istanbul contains sessions 194 through 456 in al-Biqa'i's handwriting, with blank spaces left for sessions he did not attend. Ibn Hajar's student al-Sakhawi began writing a completion to the work following his teacher's method, but he also died before completing it.
Method and Scope
In these dictations, Ibn Hajar systematically extracted the hadiths cited in al-Nawawi's al-Adhkar, providing his own independent chains of narration (istikhraj). He evaluated the authenticity of each narration, grading them as sound (sahih), fair (hasan), weak (da‘if), or suffering from transmission disruption (idtirab).
Reception and Editions
The surviving material of the dictations totals approximately three volumes. Later commentators relied heavily on Ibn Hajar's evaluations; most notably, Ibn Allan incorporated extensive excerpts from both the surviving and unpublished parts of Nata'ij al-Afkar into his comprehensive eight-volume commentary, al-Futuhat al-Rabbaniyya ala al-Adhkar al-Nawawiyya.
Portions of the text were edited and published by Hamdi Abd al-Majid al-Salafi, initially covering sessions 1 to 220, and later expanded across three volumes up to session 292, published by Dar Ibn Kathir.
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