Sabat Majalis min Amali Abi Tahir al-Mukhlis
- Author died
- 393 AH
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- Dār al-Bashā’ir al-Islāmīyah
Sabat Majalis min Amali Abi Tahir al-Mukhlis (Seven Sessions from the Dictations of Abu Tahir al-Mukhlis) is a short hadith collection (juz) compiled from the oral dictation sessions of the Baghdadi hadith scholar Abu Tahir al-Mukhlis (305–393 AH / 917–1003 CE).
Composition and Transmission
The work preserves the seven final dictation assemblies held by al-Mukhlis, who died seventeen days after delivering them. The dictation began on Friday, 16 Rajab 393 AH.
The text was transmitted directly from al-Mukhlis by the preacher Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Khatib al-Sarayfini (d. 469 AH). From al-Sarayfini, the primary line of transmission passed to Abu al-Durr Yaqut ibn Abd Allah al-Rumi (d. 543 AH), through whom it was transmitted by Baha al-Din al-Qasim ibn Asakir (d. 600 AH). Another line from al-Sarayfini ran through Abu al-Karam ibn Ahmad al-Shahrazuri to Ibn al-Muqayyar.
Reception and Derived Works
The collection was recorded and cited in bio-bibliographical works by later hadith scholars. Al-Dhahabi noted it in Siyar Alam al-Nubala under the biography of Abu al-Durr Yaqut, and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani cataloged it in al-Mujam al-Mufahras and al-Majma al-Muassis, identifying it by recording the opening and closing narrations of each of the seven sessions.
Later scholars extracted specific parts and narrations from the work:
- Yusuf ibn Abd al-Hadi compiled an extraction focusing on its narrations from early jurists, titled Juz fima inda al-Mukhlis fi Majalisihi al-Saba an al-Imam Ahmad wa-l-Shafii wa-Malik (A Treatise on What al-Mukhlis Transmitted in His Seven Sessions from Imams Ahmad, al-Shafii, and Malik).
- Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Abi Talib al-Makki compiled a part combining narrations of al-Mukhlis, al-Dabbi, and al-Mahamili, in which all of al-Mukhlis's narrations were taken from the seventh session.
Manuscripts and Printed Editions
Multiple manuscript witnesses of the work survive, preserved primarily in Damascus within the Umariyya collections at the Zahiriyya Library (including manuscripts 118, 60, and 7). The primary witness in manuscript 118 was transcribed in 595 AH by Abd al-Salam ibn Abi Bakr al-Dimashqi and contains extensive audition records (samaat) in the handwriting of al-Mizzi, recording readings attended by figures such as Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn al-Muhandis, Ibn Kathir, and Ibn Abd al-Hadi.
The book has been published in several modern editions:
- Edited by Ghalib ibn Muhammad al-Hamidi (Riyadh: Dar al-Watan, 1419 AH / 1998 CE).
- Edited by Muhammad ibn Nasir al-Ajmi (Beirut: Dar al-Bashair al-Islamiyya, 1425 AH / 2004 CE).
- Edited by Nabil Sa'd al-Din Jarrar as part of the collected parts in al-Mukhlissiyyat wa-Ajza Ukhra li-Abi Tahir al-Mukhlis (State of Qatar: Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, 1429 AH / 2008 CE).
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