Takhrij al-Kalim al-Tayyib
- Author died
- 728 AH
- Editions
- Al-Maktab al-Islāmī
Takhrij al-Kalim al-Tayyib (The Graduated Good Word) is a work of prophetic supplications (adʿiya) and daily remembrances (adhkār) compiled by Ibn Taymiyya (661–728 AH / 1263–1328 CE) and edited with hadith authentication (takhrīj) by the scholar Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani .
Subject and Content
The core text, titled al-Kalim al-Tayyib, was written by Ibn Taymiyya to assemble transmitted invocations from the Quran and the prophetic Sunnah, emphasizing reliance on established prophetic traditions rather than innovated litanies (awrād) . It gathers supplications for recurrent daily occasions and specific life circumstances, including:
- Morning and evening remembrances, with Ibn Taymiyya holding that the morning adhkar time concludes at sunrise .
- Supplications for going to sleep and waking up .
- Invocations upon leaving the house .
- Prayers for distress, sorrow, anxiety, and fear .
- Supplications related to travel and entering towns or settlements .
- Sighting the crescent moon .
Ibn Taymiyya's student Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya subsequently drew upon and expanded these themes in his own work, al-Wabil al-Sayyib min al-Kalim al-Tayyib .
Authentication and Editions
Al-Albani prepared a critical edition and hadith authentication (takhrīj) of al-Kalim al-Tayyib, identifying the sources of its reports and evaluating their chains of transmission into authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) and weak (ḍaʿīf) narrations . He also compiled the authenticated narrations separately into an abridged version titled Sahih al-Kalim al-Tayyib .
Notable printings of the book include:
- Takhrij al-Kalim al-Tayyib / al-Kalim al-Tayyib, edited with authentication by al-Albani, published by al-Maktab al-Islami in Beirut (including a third edition in 1397 AH / 1977 CE) , and also issued by Maktabat al-Ma'arif in Riyadh in a large-format edition of 221 pages .
- Sahih al-Kalim al-Tayyib, published by Maktabat al-Ma'arif in Riyadh (eighth edition in 1407 AH / 1987 CE, comprising 120 pages) .
- Al-Kalim al-Tayyib, edited by Abd al-Qadir al-Arna'ut, published by Dar al-Bayan in Damascus (third edition in 1403 AH) .
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