Thalathat Majalis min Amali Abi Abd Allah al-Rudhbari
- Author died
- 396 AH
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- مخطوط نُشر في برنامج جوامع الكلم المجاني التابع لموقع الشبكة الإسلامية
Thalathat Majalis min Amali Abi Abd Allah al-Rudhbari (Three Dictation Sessions from the Amali of Abu Abd Allah al-Rudhbari) is a short hadith tract (juz') dictated by the Sufi hadith scholar Abu Abd Allah Ahmad ibn 'Ata' al-Rudhbari (d. 369 AH / 979–980 CE; also recorded as d. 396 AH) .
Composition and Transmission
The text records three scholarly dictation assemblies (amali) delivered by al-Rudhbari on a Friday in the congregational mosque of Tyre (Sur) .
The primary transmission of the work was preserved through a single main line of audition :
- Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Halabi heard it directly from al-Rudhbari in 433 AH .
- Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Abi al-Ash'ath al-Samarqandi transmitted it from al-Halabi on 11 Sha'ban 487 AH in Baghdad at the Gate of Ranks (Bab al-Maratib) .
- Abu al-Fath Muhammad ibn Abd al-Baqi ibn Ahmad ibn Salman (known as Ibn al-Batti) transmitted it from al-Samarqandi .
- Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Uthman ibn Yusuf al-Kashghari transmitted it from Ibn al-Batti through public recitation .
The hadith master Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani documented his own chain of transmission to the juz' in his bibliographical register al-Mu'jam al-Mufahras via Ahmad ibn Khalil al-Maqdisi from Ahmad ibn Abi Talib from al-Kashghari .
Contents
The collection contains prophetic hadiths, exegetical reports, spiritual maxims, and lines of poetry narrated with full chains of transmission (isnads) . The material covers legal subjects such as commercial transactions, ribawi goods, purity, and prayer, alongside virtues of sending blessings on the Prophet ﷺ, piety, and ascetic counsel .
In addition to standard prophetic traditions, al-Rudhbari includes narrations from his maternal uncle Abu Ali al-Rudhbari (Muhammad ibn Ahmad), sayings of Sufis such as Abu al-Qasim al-Junayd, Ibrahim al-Khawwas, and al-Shibli, as well as linguistic dictations on Quranic vocabulary by the grammarian Ibn al-Anbari .
Manuscript Preservation
A manuscript copy of the tract survives among the Majami' Umariyya collection in the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (under composite manuscript no. 26, item 18) .
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