Sharh Gharami Sahih - Ibn Abd al-Hadi
- Author died
- 744 AH
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Sharh Gharami Sahih (شرح غرامي صحيح, lit. 'Commentary on "My Love is Sound"') is a concise commentary on hadith terminology written by the Hanbali traditionist Ibn Abd al-Hadi (704/705–744 AH / 1304/1305–1343 CE) .
Background and Subject
The commentary expounds a twenty-verse poem titled Gharami Sahih (also known as al-Qasida al-Gharamiyya or Manzumat Ibn Farah), authored by the Sevillan scholar Ahmad ibn Farah al-Ishbili (d. 699 AH / 1300 CE) . In the poem, Ibn Farah framed the core terminology of hadith criticism and classification within the stylistic structure of love poetry (ghazal), taking its title from its opening line: «غرامي صحيح والرجا فيك معضل» ("My love is sound, while hope in you is problematic") . The poem achieved widespread circulation and was transmitted by scholars such as al-Dimyati, al-Yunini, and al-Dhahabi .
Content and Method
Ibn Abd al-Hadi designed his work as a direct, didactic manual focusing strictly on the technical hadith definitions contained in the verses rather than linguistic or literary analysis of the poetic text . The commentary defines and illustrates various classifications of hadith mentioned throughout the poem, including:
- Categories of transmission quality, such as sahih (sound), hasan (fair), da'if (weak), matruk (abandoned), and mawdu' (fabricated) .
- Types of chain interruption and continuity, including muttasil (connected), munqati' (broken), mursal (hurried), and mu'dal (problematic/perplexing) .
- Modes and formats of transmission, such as musalsal (uniformly chained), musnad (attributed), mu'an'an (narrated via 'an), marfu' (elevated to the Prophet), mawquf (halted at a Companion), and maqtu' (severed at a Successor) .
- Specialized critical categories, including munkar (denounced), tadlis (obfuscation), mudraj (interpolated), mudabbaj (peer-to-peer transmission), muttafiq wa-muftariq (identical in name, distinct in identity), and mu'talif wa-mukhtalif (similar in script, different in pronunciation) .
Title Clarification and Manuscripts
Some later writers mistakenly conflated Ibn Abd al-Hadi's commentary with Zawal al-Tarah bi-Sharh Manzumat Ibn Farah, which is actually the title of a separate commentary on the same poem authored by Izz al-Din Muhammad ibn Jama'a .
The commentary has survived in multiple manuscripts, including copies preserved at the Egyptian National Library (Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya) and the library of al-Azhar . Among the oldest known manuscript copies are the codex copied by Ibn Urwa al-Hanbali and another manuscript transcribed in 819 AH . The treatise has been published both as an independent monograph and within collective editions of Ibn Abd al-Hadi's shorter treatises .
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