في أسانيد ومسلسلات الملا بكر أَبِي بِن مُحَمَّد بِن يحيى - Dar al
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في أسانيد ومسلسلات الملا بكر أَبِي بِن مُحَمَّد بِن يحيى - Dar al
ص فحات A C OLL EC T IO N OF P AG E S C ON T AI N ING C HA I N S OF T R AN SM I S SI ON A ND P A T TER N C HA I NED N AR R AT I O NS في أسانيد ومسلسلات شيخ يحيى ب ِن مُح ََّمد ب ِن أَ بِي بكر الملا الحنفي الأحسائي SHAYKH YAḤYĀ MUḤAMMAD BIN ABĪ BAKR AL-ḤANAFĪ AL-AḤSĀ’Ī BIN www.karima.org.uk AL-MULLĀ A NOTE ABOUT THIS TEXT This brief text contains a translation of a small number of pattern chained (Musalsal) hadith narrated by Shaykh Yaḥyā bin Muḥammad al-Mullā, who hails from the historic city of al-Ahsa in Saudi Arabia. Shaykh Yaḥyā narrates a number of the hadith contained in this text from his teachers, such as Shaykhs: Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā, Aḥmad Jābir Jibrān, ʿAbdullah bin Saeed al-Lahji, Ismāʿīl al-Zayn and many others. The bulk of his transmission of Musalsal hadith however comes from two of his teachers, namely: Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī and Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā. Therefore in this work the chain of Shaykh al-Fādānī will predominatly be cited, and on occasions the chain of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā. DISCLAIMER: A WORK IN PROGRESS From amongst the final words of Shaykh Abd al-Baqi al-Ayyubi In his Manahil al-Salsalah fi Al-Ahadith al-Musalsalah 1 The Musalsal hadith contains an intimacy which distinguishes it in comparison to other hadith. When I see that I have shaken hands with someone who has shaken hands with someone who in turn has shaken hands with someone going back to the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace), I visualise my hand connecting to the hand of the Messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace). There is for the soul in this an intimacy and good fortune which is not in the rest of the hadith. — Imām Ibn al-Jawzī at the beginning of his Musalalat collection DEDICATION This work is dedicated to the pious men and women scholars mentioned in the chains of narration, who transmitted these narrations to us generation after generation. They may have passed away long ago, but we still remember them and are indebted to them for their sacrifices. May Allah Taala reward them with the best of rewards and raise their rank in the next world. Amin. 2 CONTENTS MERCY .................................................................................................. 5 HANDSHAKE OF ʿANAS ............................................................................ 9 SEEKING REFUGE ................................................................................... 13 LOVE .................................................................................................. 16 ḤANAFĪ SCHOLARS ................................................................................ 18 HANBALI SCHOLARS............................................................................... 21 MECCAN SCHOLARS ............................................................................... 23 ASKING A QUESTION .............................................................................. 26 GRASPING THE BEARD ............................................................................ 28 ENDING WITH DUA ................................................................................ 31 THE TIMES WE LIVE IN .......................................................................... 35 THE CHAPTER OF THE ROW ..................................................................... 39 THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF NOBILITY (THE PURE FAMILY) ................ 41 REFERENCING FOR THE FORTY HADITH.................................................... 48 إجازة................................................................................................... 50 3 4 MERCY 1 MERCY THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF FIRSTNESS1 اَلمَسَلَسَلَبَالَوَلَيَة َحدث َنا:َحدث َنا بِ ِه الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني قال لي بِ ْن فالح ال َّظا ِه ِر ّي الْمدنِي والمقرئ ّ بِ ِه ال َّشََََّّّّ ْيخ َع َّ الشَّ ََّااأ اْ ْحمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اللّه المخللاتي ال َّش َّامي ث الْ َم ِّك ّي وال َع َّل َامة الفلكي ال َّشََََََّّّّّّ ْيخ َخليفَ ة بِ ْن حمد وسى الخزامي َّ ال َن َبااني والمقرئ َ الش ْيخ اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن ُم السَََََّّّّّوداني ث َّ الْ َم ِّك ّي َوا ْم ِا َماح الْ َح ِاف ال َّسَََََّّّّّ ِّيد َع ْب ُد الْ َح ّي بِ ْن َع ْبَّ ُد الْ َكبِير الكتََّّاني الفََّّاسََََََّّّّّّي َو ُه َو اول َح ِديث ارويه َعن ُا َعن اْبِي الْ ُي ْسََََّّّّر فالح بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد ال َّظا ِه ِر ّي الْ مدنِي َو ُه َو اول َعن ال َّسََََََّّّّّّ ِّيد ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن لي السََّّنوسََّّي الْخ اْبِي الشََّّلفي َو ُه َو اول َعن اْبِي ّ َع َح ْفص عمر بِ ْن َع ْب َّ ُد الْ َكرِي الْ َع َّ َّار َو ُه َو اول َعن ا ِما َماح ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ال ّ يب المغربي ث َّ الْ مدنِي َو ُه َو اول َعن امَّ َِّا َمَّاح اْبِي الْ َع َّبَّاأ اْ ْحمََّّد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمَّد بِ ْن ِ ن لي بِ ْن ّ َاصر الدرعي َوا ْم ِا َماح اْبِي ا ْما ْ ْس َرار حسن بِ ْن َع It was narrated to us by Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī who said; It was narrated to us by Shaykh ʿAli bin Falih al-Zahiri al-Madani, the recitor Shihāb Aḥmad bin ʿAbdullāh al-Mukhallalātī al-Shāmī and then al-Makkī, the most learned astronomer Shaykh Khalīfah bin Hamd al-Nabhānī, the recitor Shaykh Ibrahīm bin Musā al-Khizāmī alSudani then al-Makkī, Imām Ḥāfiz Sayyid Abd al-Hayy bin Abd al-Kabīr al-Kattānī al-Fāsī, and it is the first hadith which I narrate from them; from Abū al-Yusr Fālīḥ bin Muḥammad alZāhirī al-Madanī and it is the first; from Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAli al-Sanusī al-Khattābī alShalafī and it is the first; from Abū Hafs ʿUmar bin Abd al-Karīm al-Attar and it is the first; from Imām Muḥammad bin al-Tayyib alMaghribī then al-Madanī and it is the first; from 1 This hadith is also known as the Hadith of Mercy and is traditionally narrated to a student by his or her teacher as the first hadith they hear from them. Shaykh Abd al-Hayy al-Kattānī (Allah have mercy on him) at the beginning of his work Fihris al-Fahāris (1/93) discussed the reason why the scholars of hadith started their gatherings with this narration, he said that this hadith is, “Widespread amongst the Muslim community (ummah), and was paid attention to by the scholars of the science (of hadith). They gave precedence to narrating it over other hadith so that they would have a continuous pattern, as we have also done. It is also so that the seeker of knowledge follows it and knows that the basis of knowledge is mercy, love and maintaining ties, not turning away and breaking (off relations). So if the student is nurtured with this, with him is nurtured the call to knowledge and mercy…and he is not raised except with the character trait of mercy.” 5 MERCY ِ يحيى العجيمي ا ْل َم ِّك ّي َو ُه َو اول َقا َما نَا ِب ِه اما َماح زين العابدين ال َّ َب ِر ّي َو ُه َو اول َح ِديث س َََّّّم َعناه ِم ْن ُه بالْمقَاح من الْ َم ْسََََََّّّّّّ ِجد الْ َح َراح َقا َل َحدث َنا بِ ِه والدنا ِاما َماح محيي الدّين َع ْب ُد الْ قَ ا ِدر بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد َو ُه َو اول َقا َل اْخْ َّ َََََّّّّّ ََّب َرنِي جدي يحيى بِ ْن مكرح َو ُه َو اول َقا َل اْخْ ََّّ ََّب َرنِي بِ ِه جدي ُم َح َّمد الْ ُمحب ال َّ َب ِر ّي ا ْما ْ ْو َسط َو ُه َو اول َقا َل اْخْ َّ َََََََّّّّّّّ ََّب َرنِي بِ ِه ِاما َماح ُم َح َّمد الْ ُمحب ال َّ َب ِر ّي ا ْماْخير َو ُه َو اول َقا َل اْخْ َّ ََََّّّّ ََّب َرنِي بِ ِه َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن اسََّّعد اليافعي َو ُه َو اول َقا َل اْخْ ََََََََّّّّّّّّ ََّب َرنِي بِ ِه اِ َماح ا ْماْئِ َّمة اِ ْب َرا ِهي الرضي ال َّ َب ِر ّي َو ُه َو اول َقا َل اْخْ ََّّ ََّب َرنِي بَِّ ِه الْ َحَّ ِاف الْ َكبِير اْ ْحمََّّد الْ ُمحََّّب ال َّ َب ِر ّي ا ْمَّا ْ ْ َبر لي بِ ْن اْبِي ّ َو ُه َو اول َعن َعمه ِاما َماح اْبِي الْحس ََََّّّّن َع بكر ال َّ َب ِر ّي َو ُه َو اول َعن ال َّش ََََََّّّّّّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمَََّّّد بِ ْن اِ ْسََََََّّّّّّ َم ِاعي بِ ْن اْبِي ال َّصََََََّّّّّّيي اليمني َو ُه َو اول َعن ال َّشََّّ ْيخ اْبِي الْحسََّّن الْ َم ْق ِد ِسََّّي َو ُه َو اول َعن الْ َف ِقيه اْبِي َع ْبَّ ُد الل َّّه الََّّديبََّّاجي َو ُه َو اول َعن اْبِي بكر بِ ْن شََََّّّّ ْب َو ُه َو اول َعن عمر الدهسََََّّّّتاني َو ُه َو اول َقا َل اْخْ َّ ََََّّّّ ََّب َرنِي ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الريونجي َو ُه َو اول َقا َل اْخْ ََّّ ََّب َرنِي َح ْم َزة بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َعزِيز المالبي َو ُه َو اول َقا َل اْخْ َََََََّّّّّّّ ََّب َرنِي اْ ُبو َح ِامد اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن يحيى بِ ْن بِلَال الْ َب َّزاز (ح) َوبِ ََّّ ِه اِلَى اْبِي َح ْفص عمر بِ ْن َع ْب ََّّ ُد الْ َكرِي لي الونائي َو ُه َو اول َّ الْ َع َّار َعن ّ الس ِّيد اْبِي الْحسن َع َعن الْ ُب ْر َهان اِ ْب َرا ِهي النمرس َََّّّي َو ُه َو اول َعن عيد بِ ْن لي النمرسََََََّّّّّّي َو ُه َو اول َعن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن َس ََََََّّّّّّال ّ َع الْ َب ْص َََََّّّّّ ِر ّي َو ُه َو اول َعن ال َّش َََََّّّّّ ْم ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َعلَاء الدّين البابلي َو ُه َو اول َعن الشَّ َباأ اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الش َََّّّلبي الْ َح َن ِف ّي َو ُه َو اول َعن الْجمال ُيو ُس َََّّّي بِ ْن َز َ ِر َّيا ا ْمانْ َص َََّّّارِ ّي َو ُه َو اول َعن بر َهان الدّين اِ ْب َرا ِهي لي بِ ْن اْ ْحمََّّد القلقشََََََّّّّّّنََّّدي َو ُه َو اول َعن ّ ابِ ْن َع الشااأ اْ ْحمد بِ ْن اْبِي بكر الْ َم ْق ِد ِسي َو ُه َو اول َعن َ Imām Abū ʿAbbās Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Nāṣir al-Darii and Imām Abū al-Asrar Ḥasan bin ʿAli bin Yaḥyā al-Ujaymi al-Makkī and it is the first, they both said; We were informed of it by Imām Zayn al-Abidin al-Ṭabarī and it is the first hadith we heard from him by the Maqam in the Masjid al-Haram, he said; It was narrated to us by by our father Imām Muhiy al-Dīn Abd al-Qāḍīr bin Muḥammad and it is the first, he said; I was informed by my grandfather Muḥammad al-Muhib al-Ṭabarī al-Awsat and it is the first, he said; I was informed of it by Imām Muḥammad al-Muhib al-Ṭabarī al-Akhir; I was informed of it by ʿAbdullāh bin Asad al-Yafii and it is the first, he said; I was informed of it by the Imām of the Imāms Ibrahīm al-Radi alṬabarī and it is the first; I was informed of it by the great Ḥāfiz Aḥmad al-Muhib al-Ṭabarī alAkbar and it is the first; from his uncle Imām Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAli bin Abī Bakr al-Ṭabarī and it is the first; from Shaykh Muḥammad bin Ismāʿīl bin Abī al-Sayf al-Yamānī and it is the first; from Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan al-Maqdisī and it is the first; from the jurist Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Dibājī and it is the first; from Abū Bakr bin Shibl and it is the first; from ʿUmar al-Dahstānī and it is the first, he said; I was informed by Muḥammad bin Muḥammad al-Rayunjī and it is the first, he said; I was informed by Hamza bin Abd al-Azīz al-Mahlabī and it is the first, he said; I was informed by Abū Hāmid Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Yaḥyā bin Bilāl al-Bazzār [Another Chain] A similar chain up to Abū Hafs ʿUmar bin Abd al-Karīm al-Attār; from Sayyid Abū al-Hafs ʿAli al-Wanāī and it is the first; from Burhān Ibrahīm al-Numrasi and it is the first; from Eid bin ʿAli al-Numrāsī and it is the first; from ʿAbdullāh bin Sālim al-Basrī and it is the first; from Shams Muḥammad bin Alā al-Dīn alBābilī and it is the first; from Shabāb Aḥmad bin 6 MERCY ِ الص ْدر اْبِي الْ َف ْتح الْ َم ْيد ُوم ُّي َو ُه َو اول َعن اْبِي الْفر َّ لي الْ َح َّرانِي َو ُه َو ّ َع ْب ُد اللَّ ِ يي بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ ُمنع بِ ْن َع لي بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد ّ اول َعن اْبِي الْفر َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن َع بِ ْن الْ َج ْوزِ ّي َو ُه َو اول َعن اْبِي سَََّّّعيد اِ ْسَََّّّ َم ِاعي بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْملك ال َّن ْي َسََّّا ُبورِي َو ُه َو اول َعن اْبِيه اْبِي َص ََََّّّّالح اْ ْحمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْملك الْ ُم َؤ ّذن َو ُه َو اول َعن اْبِي َطا ِهر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن محمش الز َيادي َو ُه َو اول َعن اْبِي َح ِامد اْ ْح مد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن يحيى الْ َب َّزاز بالزاي المكررة َو ُه َو اول َعن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن بش ََََّّّّر بِ ْن الحك الْ َع ْب ُدي َو ُه َو اول َعن ُس ََََّّّّ ْف َيان بِ ْن ُع َي ْي َنة َو ُه َو اول َواِلَ ْي ِه َي ْن َت ِاي التسََََّّّّلسََََّّّّ باماولية َعن َع ْمرو بِ ْن ِدي َنَّار َعن اْبِي َقَّا ُبوأ مولى َع ْبَّ ُد الل َّّه بِ ْن ص َعن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن َع ْمرو َر ِض ََََّّّّي الل ّه ِ َع ْمرو بِ ْن الْ َعا :َعن ُا َما اْن َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َقا َل ،2 «ال َّر ِاح ُمو َن َي ْر َح ُم ُا ُ ال َّر ْح َم ُن َت َبَََّّّا َر َك َو َت َعَََّّّا َلى »الس َما ِء ِ ا ْر َح ُموا َم ْن ِفي اما ْ ْر َّ ض َي ْر َح ُم ُك ْ َم ْن ِفي Muḥammad al-Shalabī al-Ḥanafī and it is the first; from Jamāl Yusuf bin Zakariyyāh al-Ansārī and it is the first; from Burhān al-Dīn Ibrahīm Ibn ʿAli bin Aḥmad al-Qalqashandī and it is the first; from Shihāb Aḥmad bin Abī Bakr alMaqdisi and it is the first; from Al-Sadr Abū alFath al-Maydūmī and it is the first; from Abū alFaraj Abd al-Laṭīf bin Abd al-Munʿim bin ʿAli al-Harrānī and it is the first; from Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin ʿAli bin Muḥammad bin al-Jawzī and it is the first; from Abū Saeed Ismāʿīl bin Aḥmad bin Abd al-Mālik alNaysabūrī and it is the first; from his father Abū Ṣāliḥ Aḥmad bin Abd al-Mālik al-Muaʿdhin and it is the first; from Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin Mahmash al-Ziyādī and it is the first; from Abū Hāmid Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Yaḥyā al-Bazzāz and it is the first; from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Bishr bin alHakam al-Abdī and it is the first; from Sufyān bin ʿUyaynah and it is the first, and it is here where the pattern of firstness in the chain ends; from ʿAmr bin Dīnār; from Abū Qābūs the Mawla of ʿAbdullāh bin ʿAmr bin al-Aas from ʿAbdullāh bin ʿAmr (Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “The merciful are shown mercy by the All-Merciful تبارك وتعاىل. Have mercy to those on earth, and the Lord of the Heavens will have mercy upon you.” 2 Shaykh Abd al-Baqi al-Ayyubi in his Manahil al-Salsalah (p.9) mentioned that he heard this narration from all of his Shaykhs with the addition وتعاىل تبارك, it was not however mentioned by Ibn al-Jazari, al-Suyuti, Muḥammad Abid al-Sindī and others. The fact of the matter is that it is not from the narration but rather it is by way of good manners (adab) at the mention of the Divine Name. It should be recited by the narrator of this hadith and some scholars added that it not be recorded but recited. 7 MERCY Shams Muḥammad bin al-Tayyib al-Maghribi then al-Madini said: This hadith – as was stated by more than one of the Imāms – is an elevated Ḥasan hadith. It was related by Al-Bukhārī in his work 3 Al-Kuna and Al-Adab al-Mufrad, Aḥmad and al-Humaydi in their Musnads, al-Bayhaqi in Al-Shuab, Abū Dāwūd and Al-Tirmidhī in their Sunan’s, Abū ʿAli al-Zafarani as recorded from his narration as cited from him by Ibn Al-Abbar and others. Al-Tirmidhī said: This hadith is Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ, it was cited by Al-Ḥākim in Al-Mustadrak who graded it Ṣaḥīḥ, and it is so taking in to account the follow up and supporting narrations which it has which is not hidden to the one who has some familiarity with the sciences of hadith. Likewise Zayn al-Iraqi and others were certain of it being Ṣaḥīḥ without hesitation, and Allah knows best.4 3 In the footnote of the printed edition of Al-Ujalah (p.10) it states that this is a mistake. 4 Al-Ujalah fi Al-Ahadith Al-Musalsalah (p.10-11) 8 SEEKING REFUGE 2 HANDSHAKE OF ʿANAS َاَ َلمسَلَسَلَبَا َلمصَافَحَة THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF THE HANDSHAKE :اْخْ َب َرن ََّا الشَّ ْيخ َع ْب ُد الرحمن بِ ْن اْبِي بكر الملا قال الس ِّيد ُم َح َّمد علي بِ ْن ظاهر َّ رواه شيخنا عن ال َعلَّا َمة َعن شَّيخه ال َعلَّا َمة َع ْب ُد ال َغَّ ِني ابِ ْن اْبِي، الوتري َعن شيخه الحاف،َس ِع ْيد ال ُم َج َّد ِدي ال ِّد ْه َل ِوي ،ُم َح َّمد عابد بِ ْن احمَّد علَّي امانَّصاري السندي الس ِّيد َّ َصا َف ْح ُت: >قال في ثبته<حصر الشارد الس ِّيد ابا القاس َّ و َص ْن ِو ِه،َ احمَّد بِ ْن سَّليمان الاجَّاح ، الس ِّيد َع ْب ُد الرزاق البكَّاري َّ و، ابِ ْن سليمان الاجاح والشَّ ْيخ يوسي بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد، >صَّاحب<الق يع الس ِّيد َّ صَّافحنا: قَّالوا، ابِ ْن عَّلاء الَّدين المزجَّاجي :احمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد شريي مقبول اماهدل ؛ قال والشَّ ْيخ، َصا َف ْح ُت الشَّ ْيخ احمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد النخلي صافحنا الشَّ ْيخ:َع ْب ُد اﷲ بِ ْن سال البصري ؛ قاما َصا َف ْح ُت: قال، ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن عَّلاء الدين البابلي : قَّال، الشَّ ْيخ الكبير ابا بكر بِ ْن اسماعيَّ الَّشنواني : قَّال،َصا َف ْح ُت الشَّ ْيخ ابراهي بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اﷲ العلقمي : قال، َصا َف ْح ُت الحَّاف جَّلال الَّدين السيوطي ،َصا َف ْح ُت تقي الدين احمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الَّشمني : قال، َصا َف ْح ُت ابَّا ال اهر ابِ ْن الكويك:قَّال : قال، َصا َف ْح ُت ابا اسحاق ابراهي بِ ْن علي َصا َف ْح ُت ابا: قال، َصا َف ْح ُت ابَّا َع ْب ُد اﷲ الخوئي َصا َف ْح ُت ابا بكر:قَّال،المجد بِ ْن الحسين القَّزويني Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā informed us and said; It was related by our Shaykh (ʿUmar bin Hamdan al-Mahrasi) ; from Allāmah al-Sayyid Muḥammad bin ʿAli bin Zahir al-Watrī informed me; from his Shaykh Allamah Abd alGhanī Ibn Abī Saeed al-Mujaddidī al-Diĥlawī; from his Shaykh Ĥāfiz Muḥammad Abid bin Aḥmad ʿAli al-Anšārī al-Sindī, who said in his thabat Ĥašr al-Shārid: I shook the hand of Sayyid Aḥmad bin Sulaiman al-Hajjam, his twin brother Sayyid Abul Qāsim Ibn Sulaiman alHajjam, Sayyid Abd al-Razzaq al-Bakkari the author of al-Qati’ and Shaykh Yusuf bin Muḥammad Ibn Ala al-Dīn al-Mizjaji, all of them saying; Sayyid Aḥmad bin Muḥammad Sharif Maqbul al-Ahdal shook our hand and said; I shook the hand of Shaykh Aḥmad bin Muḥammad al-Nakhli and Shaykh ʿAbdullāh bin Salim al-Basri, both of whom said; We shook the hand of Shaykh Muḥammad Ibn Ala al-Dīn al-Babili who said; I shook the hand of the great Shaykh Abū Bakr bin IsmāʿīlalShinwani who said; I shook the hand Shaykh Ibrahīm bin ʿAbdullāh al-Alqama who said; I shook the hand of Ḥāfiz Jalal al-Dīn al-Suyuti who said; I shook the hand of Taqi al-Dīn Aḥmad bin Muḥammad al-Shumni who 9 SEEKING REFUGE said; I shook the hand of Abul Ṭāhir Ibn alKuwayk who said; I shook the hand of Abū Ishaq Ibrahīm bin ʿAli who said; I shook the hand of Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Khuay who said; I shook the hand of Abul Majd bin alHussain al-Qazwini who said; I shook the hand of Abū Bakr bin Ibrahīm al-Shahazdhi who said; I shook the hand of Abul Ḥasan Ibn Abī Zarah who said; I shook the hand of Abū Mansur ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin ʿAbdullāh al-Bazzazi who said; I shook the hand of Abd al-Mālik bin Nujayd who said; I shook the hand of Abul Qāsim Abdan bin Humayd al-Manbaji who said; I shook the hand of ʿUmar bin Saeed who said; I shook the hand of Aḥmad bin Dahqan who said; I shook the hand of Khalf bin Tamim who said; I shook the hand of Abū Hurmuz when I entered upon him when visiting him, he said; We entered upon ʿAnas bin Mālik (Allah be pleased with him) to visit him and he said to us, “With this very hand of mine I shook the hand of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace), and I have not touched silk nor brocade softer then the َصا َف ْح ُت ابَّا الحَّسن: قَّال، بِ ْن ابراهي الش ّحاذي َصا َف ْح ُت ابا منصور َع ْب ُد: قَّال، ابِ ْن اْبِي زرعَّة َصا َف ْح ُت َع ْب ُد: قال، الرحمن بِ ْن َع ْب ُداﷲ البزازي َصافَ ْح ُت ابا القاس َع ْب ُدان: قال، الملك بِ ْن نجيد َصا َف ْح ُت عمر بِ ْن سعيد: قال، بِ ْن حميد المنبجي َصا َف ْح ُت: قال، َصا َف ْح ُت احمد بِ ْن دهقان: قال، َصا َف ْح ُت ابا هرمز حين: قَّال، خلَّي بِ ْن تمَّي َد َخ ْلن ََّا َع َلَّى اْنََّ بِ ْن: قَّال، دخلت عليه اعوده ي َّ َ َصا َف ْح ُت بِ َك ِّفي ِه ِذ ِه: َف َقا َل،َمالَِّك نَ ُع ْوده َر ُس ْو ِل اﷲ صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َف َما َم ِس ْس ُت َخ ًّزا ي َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه ِّ َ َو َما َح ِر ْي ًرا اْ َلي َن ِمن ي ِّ َف ُق ْل َنَّا م ِا ْنََّ َص ِاف ْح َنا بِال َك:َوسل ؛ َقا َل اْ ُبَّو ُه ْر ُمَّز : َو َقَّا َل، الَّ ِتي َصا َف ْح َت بِ ِاا َر ُس ْو ُل اﷲ ‘ َف َصا َف َح َنا فقلت ماْبِي، خلي بِ ْن تمي:َّس َلا ُح َع َل َّْي ُك َقا َل َّ اَل ، ي الَّ ِتي َصا َف ْح َت بِ ِاا اْنََّساﹰ ِّ َص ِاف ْح ِني بِال َك:ُه ْر ُمز َو َه َك َذا َقا َل. لس َلا ُح َع َل ْي ُك َّ َ ا: َو َقا َل، َف َصا َف َح ِني . َو َصافَ َح تِ ْل ِم ْي ُذه، ُ ُّ َو ِاحد ِمن ال َّر َواة قُلْ ُت لِلْشَ ْي ِخي َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن اْبِي َب َكر:َفاْقُ ْول ي الَّتِي َصا َف ْح َت بِ ِاا الشَّ ْيخ ِّ َص ِاف ْحانِي بِالْ َك:ال ُم َّلا : َو َقا َل، َف َصا َف َحانِي، ُع ْمر بِ ْن َح ْمدَان ال َم ْح َر ِسي لس َلا ُح َع َل ْي ُك َّ َا hand of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace).”5 Abū Hurmuz said: So we said to ʿAnas: Shake our hands with the hand with which you shook the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace), so we shook his hand and he said: Assalamu Alaikum Khalf bin Tamim said: I said to Abū Hurmuz: Shake my hand with the hand 5 This narration in Ithaf al-Ikhwan (p.137) has Sayyiduna ʿAnas’s description of the blessed prophetic hands omitted, it is however cited in other collections such as Al-Ujalah (p.12). 10 SEEKING REFUGE with which you shook ʿAnas’s hand, so he shook my hand and said: Assalamu Alaikum Each one of the narrators said the same, shaking hands with their student. I [Yaḥyā bin Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr alMullā] say: I said to our teacher, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā: Shake my hand with the hand with which you shook the hand of Shaykh ʿUmar bin Hamdan al-Mahrasi, so he shook my hand and said: Assalamu Alaikum6 Ibn Aqilah said: This hadith was related by al-Dibaji in his Musalsalat, Ibn Mufaddal and al-Tamimi in his Musalsalat. The hadith has been discussed as being weak and fabricated, even if the text is Ṣaḥīḥ as related by al-Bukhārī, Aḥmad bin Hanbal from ʿAnas, “I have never touched any silk or brocade that is softer than the palm of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him, nor have I ever smelled musk or scent more fragrant than the fragrance of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him." Al-Suyuti said in Jiyad al-Musalsalat: This hadith was related by Ibn Asakir in his Tarikh from the route of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭabarī from Abū Muḥammad Abd al-Mālik bin Muḥammad bin Nujayd al-Baghawi in a musalsal form. Abid al-Sindī said: Shams al-Sakhawi vigorously denied its being musalsal and said: Abū Hurmuz – whose name is Nafi – was declared a liar on occasion by Ibn Main, and Abū Hashim said he was severely weak (matruk dhahib al-hadith).. Abid [al-Sindī] said: He however was not alone in narrating it, for it was related in a pattern form from the route of Muḥammad bin Kamil.7 6 Therefore those wishing to narrate this hadith from Shaykh Yaḥyā al-Mullā should say the following to him after hearing the hadith: ِ ِّ صافِح ِاِن بِا ْل َك الرمحَن بِن َأ ِِب َبكَر املُ َّّل َ َ َّ ف ا َّلتي َصا َف ْح َت ِ َِبا الشيخ عَبد After which you will shake his hand and he will say to you: Assalamu Alaikum 7 Shaykh Abd al-Baqi al-Ayyubi in his Manahil al-Salsalah p.41-42 citing these words adds the following: “I say: And that is by means of that which I narrate from Sayyid Amin from Abd al-Ghani, from Muḥammad Abid, from Sayyid ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Sulayman bin Yaḥyā bin ʿUmar Maqbul al-Ahdal, from his father, from Muḥammad bin al-Tayyib al-Maghribi, from his father and Shaykh Abī ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fasi and other than them, both, all of them said: We shook the hand of Abū Salim al-Ayyashi, who shook thhe hand of Shihab al-Khafaji, from Ibrahīm al-Alqama, from his brother Shams al-Alqama and 11 SEEKING REFUGE Sayyid Yusuf al-Armiyuni, they both from Jalal al-Suyuti, from Kamal al-Dīn, from Ibn al-Jazari, from Yusuf bin Muḥammad al-Sarmari, from Abd al-Samad bin Abī al-Jaysh, from Abū Muḥammad Yusuf bin ʿAbd alRaḥmān, from his father ʿAbd al-Raḥmān biin al-Jawzi, from Ḥāfiz Muḥammad bin Nāṣir, from Abū alGhanaim bin al-Nadas, from Muḥammad bin ʿAli al-Alawi, from Abū al-Fadl Muḥammad Ibn Jafar al-Khuzai, from Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad bin Saeed al-Matui, from Abū Ghanim Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin Zakariyyah, from Muḥammad bin al-Kamil, from Aban al-Attar, from Thabit al-Bunani, from ʿAnas bin Mālik (Allah be pleased with him) said: I shook the hand of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace), and I have not felt silk nor…” With regards to Muhammad bin Kamil, Imam al-Sakhawi said in Jawahir al-Mukallalah that he was not relied upon as a narrator. Thus this supporting chain also comes via a narrator who is weak, and Allah Most High knows best. 12 SEEKING REFUGE 3 SEEKING REFUGE ََاَ َلمسَلَسَلَبَقَوَلَ مَقلََأَ مَعوَ مَذَبَاّللهَمَنََالشيطان THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF THE S T A T E M E NT : R E C I T E I S E E K R E F UG E I N َالرجيَم A L L A H F R O M T H E A C C UR S E D D E V I L I recited to Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī and said: I seek refuge in the All-Hearing and the All-Knowing, and he said to me: Recite ‘I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed devil’; from Shaykh ʿUmar Hamdan al-Mahrasi; from Sayyid ʿAli Zahir al-Watri; from Shaykh Abd alGhani al-Dihlawi; from Shaykh Muḥammad Abid al-Sindī; from his uncle Muḥammad Hussain bin Murad al-Sindī; from his father; from Muḥammad Hashim bin Abd al-Ghafur; from Abd al-Qāḍīr the Muftī of Makka; from Ḥasan al-Ujaymi; from Shihāb Aḥmad alKhafaji; from Burhan al-Alqama; from Jalal alDīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyuti; from Ḥāfiz Ibn 8 Ḥajar; from ʿAbdullāh bin Sakr; from Abū alʿAbbās Aḥmad bin Tayy al-Zubayri; from Abū al-Fath al-Qaysi; from Abū al-Ḥasan bin al8 َق َرا ُت على الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني َفقلت اْ ُع ْو ُذ الس ِم ْي ِع الْ َعلِ ْي َفقَا َل لي ق اْ ُع ْو ُذ بِاللّه ِم َن الشَّ ْي َ ِان َّ ِب ال َّر ِج ْي َو ُه َو َعن الشَّ ْيخ عمر َح ْمدَان ال َم ْح َر ِسي َو ُه َو لي َظاهر الوتري َعن الشَّ ْيخ َع ْب ُد الْ َغ ِن ّي َّ َعن ّ الس ِّيد َع الدهلوي َعن الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد َعابِد السندي َعن َعمه ُم َح َّمد ُح َس ْين بِ ْن ُم َراد السندي َعن اْبِيه َعن ُم َح َّمد َهاش بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الغفور َعن َع ْب ُد الْقَا ِدر مفتي َم َّكة َعن ِ الخ َف اجي َعن َ َح َس ْن ال ُع َج ْي ِمي َعن ال ّش َااأ اْ ْح َمد الْ ُب ْر َهان ال َع ْل َق َمي َعن َج َلال ال ِّديِن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن ِ الس ُي وط ّي َعن الْ َح ِاف ابِ ْن َح َج ْر َعن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن ُّ سكر َعن اْبِي الْ َع َّباأ اْ ْحمد بِ ْن طي الزبيرِي َعن اْبِي الْ َف ْتح الْ َق ْي ِسي َعن اْبِي الْحسن بِ ْن الْمفض َعن اْبِي This part of the chain needs further examination, a discussion of which I could not find specifically in a number of the commonly used Musalsalat works. The issue is as follows: Shaykh Abd al-Hayy al-Luknawi mentions in his Nafi al-Kabir (p.44) that Hafidh Ibn Ḥajar passed away in 852H whilst Imām al-Suyuti was born in 849H. Working out the dates of the death and birth of these scholars it appears that Imām al-Suyuti was three and a half years of age at the time of Hafidh Ibn Ḥajars passing away. Imām al-Suyuti himself in Tadhkirah al-Huffadh in the biography of Hafidh Ibn Ḥajar said that, “I have a general Ijāzah from him, and I do not deem it far fetched that I have a specific Ijāzah from him, for my father would visit him often.” Likewise in his work Tadrib al-Rawi (2/407) he mentions the pattern chained (musalsal) narration of Huffadh wherein he mentions his narration from Hafidh Ibn Ḥajar by way of general Ijāzah, adding that, “I do not narrate anything else by it (meaning the general Ijāzah) except this hadith.” This Musalsal is neither mentioned in Imām al-Suyuti’s work Jiyad al-Musalsalat which is in print, however he does have a larger work on Musalsal hadith which is not in print and which may shed light on this matter. Allah Most High knows best. 13 SEEKING REFUGE Mufaddal; from Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim bin Saeed bin Mansur al-Tamimi; from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Marwazi; from Abū al-Fadl Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad bin al-Fadl al-Mahiyani al-Khatib; from Imām ʿAli bin Aḥmad al-Wahidi; from Abū Ishaq alTha’labi; from Abū al-Fadl Muḥammad bin Jafar al-Khuzai; from Abū al-Hussain ʿAbd alRaḥmān bin Muḥammad; from Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh bin Ajlan al-Zanjani; from Abū ʿUthmān Ismāʿīlbin Ibrahīm alAhwazi; from Muḥammad bin ʿAbdullāh bin Bistam; from Ruh bin Abd Mu’min; from Yʿaqūb al-Hadrami from Salam Abū alMundhir; from ʿĀṣim Ibn Abī al-Nujud; from Zarr bin Hubaish, each of the narrators reciting ‘I seek refuge in the All-Hearing and AllKnowing’ and in response the Shaykh sayinf, ‘Recite: I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed devil.’ Zarr said: I recited to ʿAbdullāh bin Masud and said, ‘I seek refuge in the All-Knowing and AllHearing’ and he said to me, ‘Recite: I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed devil’, for I recited to ِ ُم َح َّمد الْق َاس بِ ْن سعيد بِ ْن َم ْن ُصور ال َّت ِمي ِمي َعن اْبِي َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن الْمروزِي َعن اْبِي الْفض ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن اْ ْحمد ابِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن الْفض الماهياني الْ َخ ِ يب َعن ِاما َماح َعل ّي بِ ْن اْ ْحمد الواحدي َعن اْبِي ا ِْس َحاق الثَّ ْع َلبِ ّي َعن اْبِي الْفض ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َج ْعفَر الْ ُخ َز ِاع ّي َعن اْبِي الْ ُح َس ْين َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد َعن اْبِي ُم َح َّمد َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن عجلَان الزنجاني َعن اْبِي ُع ْث َمان ا ِْس َم ِاعي بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي ا ْما ْ ْه َوازِي َعن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن بس َاح َعن روح بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ُمؤمن َعن َي ْعقُوأ الْ َحضْ َر ِم ّي َعن َسلاح اْبِي ِ الْ ُم ْنذر َعن َع النجود َعن زر بِ ْن ُح َب ْيش ُ اص ابِ ْن اْبِي الرواة اعوذ بالسميع الْ َعلِي َف َيقُول َ َقائِلا َو ِاحد من الشَّ ْيخ ق اعوذ بِاللّه من الشَّ ْي َان ال َّر ِجي َقا َل زر َف َلقَد َق َرات على َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن َم ْس ُعود َفقلت اعوذ بالسميع الْ َعلِي َفقَا َل لي ق اعوذ بِاللّه من الشَّ ْي َان ال َّر ِجي فَ َلقَد َق َرات على َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َفقلت اعوذ بالسميع الْ َعلِي َفقَا َل َيا ابِ ْن اح َع ْب ُد ق اعوذ بِاللّه من الشَّ ْي َان ال َّر ِجي َه َك َذا اْ ْق َراْنِي ِه ِج ْبرِي َعن الْ َقلَ َعن اللَّ ْوح الْ َم ْحفُوظ the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) and said, ‘I seek refuge in the All-Knowing and All-Hearing’ and he said, “O son of Umm Abd, recite I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed devil, for this is how Jibril instructed me to recite from The Pen, from The Preserved Tablet.” Shaykh Abd al-Baqi al-Ayyubi also narrates this hadith with the version of, “ الل السممممممعلي ال ل ّ ”أعوذ ب There is agreement amongst the expert reciters of the ten readings that the tawwudh is “ الل عن ّ أعوذ ب ”الشلطان الرجلexcept that الل السعلي ال ل ّ أعوذ بis related by Al-Tirmidhī in his Sunan in the invocations for the morning and evening, however Al-Darimi and Ibn al-Sunni differed with him regarding the additional wording of سعلي ال لand related it without it being mentioned just as the expert reciters. 14 SEEKING REFUGE Ibn al-Tayyib said: Al-Sakhawi indicated to all of its chains of transmission and was critical of Ibn alJazari’s view that it possessed a good chain from the route of Al-Mutui, as he declared weak by Abū Nuʿaym and Ibn Mardawayh. However they did clearly mention that the chains of the hadith even if they were weak mutually strengthened each other. Shaykh Abd al-Baqi al-Ayyubi said: The narrators of our chain from Ruh to those above him are the Imāms of Quranic recitation, and Al-Mutui is not in this chain. The name of al-Mutui is Ḥasan bin Sa’d, he is a great Imām, trustworthy in recitation…which was the reason why Ibn al-Jazari graded the hadith as good, and he is the Shaykh of the Quran reciters, and most knowledgeable of the narrators of the Quranic readings, and Allah knows best.9 9 Manahil al-Salsalah (p.143-144) 15 LOVE 4 LOVE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF THE S T A T E M E NT , “I L O V E Y O U S O S A Y …” َاَ َلمسَلَسَلَبَقَولَإ يِّن مََأحَبَكََف مَقل I was informed by Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al- اْخْ َب َرن ََّ ََّّا:اْخْ َب َرن ََّ ََّّا الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني قال ال َّشََّّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد َع ْب ُد الْ َباقِي َوعمر َح ْمدَان ال َم ْح َر ِسََّّي َو َخلِيفَ ة بِ ْن حمد الن ِب ِه اني َوعلي بِ ْن فالح ال َّظا ِه ِر ّي اربعتا َعن العلََّّامََّّه فََّّالح بِ ْن ُم َح َّمََّّد ال َّظََّّا ِه ِر ّي ِ لي ّ الْم ََّّدنِي َو ُه َو َوال ََّّد ا ْم ََّّاخير َعن ُم َح َّم ََّّد بِ ْن َع السَََّّّنوسَََّّّي َعن الْجمال َع ْب ُد الحفي العجيمي َعن ُم َح َّمد َهاش ََّّ بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الغفور الس ََّّندي َعن عيد بِ ْن لي النمرسََّّي الْ ُب ُرلُّ ِس َّ ّي َعن المعمر ُم َح َّمد البِ ِه وتي ّ َع الْ َح ْن َبلِ ّي َعن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن ال ِب ِه وتي َعن نج ال ّدين ِ الغي ي َعن الْ َح ِاف جلال الدّين ال ُّسََّّ ُي وط ّي َعن اْبِي ال ّيََّّب اْ ْحمََّّد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمَّد الْ ِح َجَّازِي امََّّاديََّّب َعن َقا ِض َََّّّي الْ ُق َض َََّّّاة مجد الدّين اِ ْس َََّّّ َم ِاعي بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي الْ َح َن ِف ّي َعن اْبِي سعيد العلائي َعن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد امارموي َعن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن مكي َعن اْبِي َطا ِهر لي ّ السََََََّّّّّّ َل ِفي َعن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َكرِي َعن اْبِي َع يسى بِ ْن شَ اذان الْقصار الْ َب ْص ِر ّي َعن اْ ْحمد النجاد َ ِع َعن ابِ ْن اْبِي ال ُّدنْ َيا َعن الْحسَََََّّّّّن الجروي َعن َع ْمرو التني ِسَََّّّي َعن الحك بِ ْن َع ْب ُدة َعن َح ْي َوة بِ ْن ُشَََّّّ َر ْيح لي ُ عقبة بِ ْن ُمسََََََّّّّّّل َعن اْبِي َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن ِ الح ُّب َ َعن ِ َعن الص َن ابحي َعن م َعاذ بِ ْن جب َقا َل َقا َل لي َر ُس ْو ُل َّ اللّا: ْ َف ُق، َاللّه صََّّلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسََّّل اِنِّي اُ ِح ُّبك َوح ْسنِ ِع َبا َدتِك ُ ، َوشُ ْك ِر َك،اْ ِع ِّني َع َلى ِذ ْ ِر َك Fādānī who said; I was informed by Shaykh Muḥammad Abd alBaqi, ʿUmar Hamdan al-Mahrasi, Khalīfah bin Hamd al-Nabhani and ʿAli bin Falih al-Zahiri, the four of them; from Allamah Falih bin Muḥammad al-Zahiri al-Madini, who is the father of the last scholar; from Muḥammad bin ʿAli al-Sanusi; from Jamāl Abd al-Ḥāfiz alUjaymi; from Muḥammad Hashim bin Abd alGhafur al-Sindī; from Eid bin ʿAli al-Numrasi al-Burallasi; from the senior scholar Muḥammad al-Bahuti al-Hanbali; from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bahuti; from Najm al-Dīn alGhayti; from Ḥāfiz Jalal al-Dīn al-Suyuti; from Abū al-Tayyib Aḥmad bin Muḥammad alHijazi al-Adib; from the chief Judge Majd al-Dīn Ismāʿīlbin Ibrahīm al-Ḥanafī; from Abū Saeed al-Alai; from Aḥmad bin Muḥammad alArmawi; from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Makkī; from Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafi; from Muḥammad bin Abd al-Karim; from Abū ʿAli ʿĪsa bin Shadhan al-Qassar al-Basri; from Aḥmad al-Najjad; from Ibn Abī Dunya; from Al-Ḥasan al-Jarawi; from ʿAmr al-Tanisi; from Al-Hakam bin Abdah; from Haywah bin Shuraih; from Uqbah bin Muslim; from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Hubuli; from Al-Sanabahi; from Muadh bin Jabal who said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him 16 LOVE and give him peace) said to me10, “Indeed I love you, so recite: O Allah help me to make rememberance of You, thank You and worship you in the best manner.” An in another version of this narration related by Abū Dāwūd, “O Muadh! Indeed I love you, I advise you to not leave after every prayer to recite: O Allah help me to make rememberance of You, thank You and worship you in the best manner.” ََو ِفي ر َِوا َيََّّة اْبِي َد ُاود َيََّّا ُم َعََّّاذ َوالل ََّّّه اِنِّي اُ ِح ُّبََّّك َواُ ْو ِصََََّّّّ ْيكَ اْن َما َت َدع ِفي ُد ُب ِر ُ َصََََّّّّلَاة اْن َت ُقول َاللّا َّ اْ ِع ِّني َع َلى ِذ ْ ِر َك َوشُ ْك ِر َك َو ُح ْسنِ ِع َبا َدتِك َو َقا َل ُم َعاذ لِ ْل َصََََََّّّّّّ َنا َب ِحي اِنِّي اُ ِح ُّبكَ فَقُ الخ َو َقا َل لي اِنِّي اُ ِح ُّبكَ َف ُق الخ َو َه َك َذا َقا َل ُ ِال َص َََّّّ َنا َب ِحي ل ِ لح ُّب وخ َنا َولل ّ ِه َ ُ راو لمن روى َعن ُه َو َقا َل لَناَ َذلِكَ ُشَََََّّّّّ ُي الْ َح ْمد Ibn Aqilah said: This hadith was related by Al-Daylami in a Musalsal form, and by Abū Dāwūd and al-Nasai. Al-Suyuti said: It is Ṣaḥīḥ in terms of its chain (Isnad) and pattern. Abid al-Sindī said that Al-Sakhawi was certain of the authenticity of the text of the narration and the pattern. Ibn al-Tayyib said that the hadith was Ṣaḥīḥ in terms of its chain and pattern.11 10 There are versions where the name of the person being narrated to is mentioned, as done when some scholars narrate this hadith. 11 Manahil al-Salsalah (p.26-27) 17 ḤANAFĪ SCHOLARS 5 ḤANAFĪ SCHOLARS THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF ḤANAFĪ SCHOLARS َاَ َلمسَلَسَلَبَال مَفقَهَاءَالَفَنفية I was informed by Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al- اْخْ َب َرن ََّا:اْخْ َب َرن ََّا بِ ِه الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني قال بِ ِه ال َعلَّا َمة الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد َع ْب ُد ا ْل َباقِي امايوبي اللكنوي لي بِ ْن َظاهر الوتري َّ ث َّ الْمدنِي الْ َح َن ِف ّي َعن ّ الس ِّيد َع Fādānī who said; I was informed by the most learned scholar Shaykh Muḥammad Abd alBaqi al-Ayyubi al-Laknawi and then al-Madani al-Ḥanafī; from Sayyid ʿAli bin Zahir al-Watri; َعن َع ْب ُد ا ْل َغ ِن ّي بِ ْن ْابِي سعيد الدهلوي َعن ُم َح َّمد وسي بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد ُ َعابِد السندي ث َّ الْمدنِي َعن ُي المزجاجي َعن اْبِيه ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َعلَاء الدّين المزجاجي from Abd al-Ghani bin Abī Saeed al-Dihlawi; from Muḥammad Abid al-Sindī then alMadani; from Yusuf bin Muḥammad al-Mizjaji; from his father Muḥammad bin Ala al-Dīn alMizjaji; from his father Ala al-Dīn bin َعن اْبِيه َعلَاء الدّين بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد المزجاجي َعن ِاما َماح لي العجيمي ّ الراواية الْمسند ْابِي ا ْما ْ ْس َرار حسن بِ ْن َع الس ِّيد ُم َح َّمد َّ الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن مفتي ا ْم ِا ْسلَاح َوعل ا ْما ْ ْعلَاح َصا ِدق بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بادشاه الْ ُح َس ْي ِني َعن ال َعلَّا َمة ُم َح َّمد Muḥammad al-Mizjaji; from the Imām of hadith transmission and hadith narrator Abū al-Asrar Ḥasan bin ʿAli al-Ujaymi al-Makkī; from the Muftī of Islām and great notable figure, Sayyid Muḥammad Sadiq bin Aḥmad Badshah al-Hussaini; from Allamah بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْقَا ِدر النحريري َعن السرا عمر الحانوتي َعن الْ ُب ْر َهان اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن الكر ي َصاحب الْ َف ْيض َعن الْ ُمحب ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اْ ْحمد اماقصرائي َعن لي الْ ِك َنانِي الشاير بقارئ الْ ِادَا َية ّ السرا عمر بِ ْن َع الس ِّيد جلال بِ ْن شم َّ َعن الْ َعلَاء السيرامي َعن الدّين الكرماني َعن ال َعلَّا َمة َع ْب ُد الْ َعزِيز بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن Muḥammad bin Abd al-Qāḍīr al-Nahriri; from Siraj ʿUmar al-Hanuti; from Burhan Ibrahīm bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Karki the author of AlFayd; from al-Muhib Muḥammad bin Aḥmad al-Aqsarai; from Siraj ʿUmar bin ʿAli al-Kinani, well known as Qari al-Hidayah; from Al-Ala’ alSayrami; from Sayyid Jalal bin Shams al-Dīn alKarlani; from Allamah abd al-Aziz bin Aḥmad bin .ُم َح َّمد ُالب َخارِ ّي )ح) َوبِ ِه اِ َلى حسن العجيمي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن شيخ ا ْما َفاق مفتي الرملة ِاما َماح خير الدّين َعن الشَّ ْيخ اْ ْحمد Muḥammad al-Bukhārī; [Another chain] By means of the same route to Ḥasan al-Ujaymi al-Makkī; from the Shaykh of the lands, Muftī 18 ḤANAFĪ SCHOLARS بِ ْن اْ ِمين الدّين َعن َوالِده اْ ِمين الدّين بِ ْن َع ْب ُد العال الجنبلاطي َعن الشَّ ْيخ سري الدّين َع ْب ُد الْبر بِ ْن ا ْل ُمحب ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ال ّش ْح َنة َعن الزين ابِ ْن ق لوبغا َعن اْ ِمين الدّين القاهري َعن القواح ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد of Ramla, Imām Khayr al-Dīn; from Shaykh Aḥmad bin Amin al-Dīn; from his father Amin al-Dīn bin Abd al-Aal al-Janbalati; from Shaykh Sari al-Dīn Abd al-Barr bin al-Muhib Muḥammad bin Shahnah; from Zayn Ibn Qutlubugha; from Ibn al-Dīn al-Qahiri; from ا ْما ْ ْفَانِ ِّي َعن ا ْل ِع ّز ْا ْحمد بِ ْن المظفر بروايته َو َع ْب ُد الْ َعزِيز ُالب َخارِ ّي َعن َحاف الدّين اْبِي الْفض ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن نصر ُالب َخارِ ّي َعن شم ا ْماْئِ َّمة اْبِي Al-Qawwam Muḥammad bin Muḥammad alAkfani; from Al-Izz Aḥmad bin al-Muzaffari with his transmission and Abd al-Aziz alBukhārī; from Ḥāfiz al-Dīn Abū al-Fadl Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin Nasr al- المجدغ ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الستار الكردري َعن بدر ا ْماْئِ َّمة عمر بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َكرِي الورسكي َعن ِاما َماح ر ن الدّين َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن شيرويه الْك ْر َمانِي َعن َفخر الْق َُضاة ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن الْحسن امارسابِ ْندي َعن عماد ا ْم ِا ْسلَاح َع ْب ُد ال َّر ِحي بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َعزِيز الزوزني َعن ِ الق يسى الدبوسي َعن َ َاضي اْبِي زيد َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن ِع Bukhārī; from Shams al-Aimmah Abū alMujdagh Muḥammad bin Abd al-Sattar alKardari; from Badr al-Aimmah ʿUmar bin Abd al-Karima al-Warsaki; from Imām Rukn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Muḥammad Ibn Sharawayh al-Kermani; from Fakhr al-Qudah Muḥammad bin al-Ḥasan al-Arsabandi; from Imad al-Islām ʿAbd al-Raḥīm bin Abd al-Aziz al-Zawzani; from Qāḍī Abū Zayd ʿAbdullāh bin ʿĪsa al-Dabusi; from Ustadh ا ْما ُ ْس َتاذ ْابِي َج ْعفَر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن عمر اماستروشني َعن لي بِ ْن خضر ال َّن َس ِف ّي َعن ّ اِ َماح الْ َع ْصر اْبِي الْحسن َع Abū Jafar Muḥammad bin ʿUmar al-Istarushani; from Imām al-Asr Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAli bin Khidr al- ْابِي بكر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ا ْلفض الكماري بِ َف ْتح الْ َكاف َعن ِاما َماح اْبِي ُم َح َّمد َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َي ْعقُوأ الص ِغير َّ السيذموني ا ْل َحارِثِ ّي َعن ا ْلق ْد َوة ْابِي َح ْفص َع ْب ُد اللّه َعن َوالِده ِاما َماح الْ َمشْ ُاور اْبِي َح ْفص الْ َكبِير nasafi; from Abū Bakr Muḥammad bin al-Fadl al-Kamari; from Imām Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh bin Muḥammad bin Yʿaqūb alSaydhamuni al-Harithi; from the exemplar Abū Hafs al-Saghir ʿAbdullāh; from his father the well known Imām Abū Hafs al-Kabir Aḥmad حجة اْبِي َع ْب ُد َّ ْاْ ْحمد بِ ْن َح ْفص ُالب َخارِ ّي َعن ِاما َماح ال اللّه ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن الْحسن الشَّ ْي َبانِ ّي َعن ِاما َماح ا ْما ْ ْع َظ اْبِي حنيفَة ال ُّن ْع َمان بِ ْن ثَابت الْ ُك ِوفي َعن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن اْبِي َحبِ َيبة َقا َل َس ِم ْع ُت اْ َبا ال َّد ْر َداء َيقُول ُ ْن ُت َر ِد ْيي bin Hafs al-Bukhārī; from the Imām and proof, Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad bin al-Ḥasan alShaybani; from the greatest Imām Abū Ḥanīfah Numan bin Thabit al-Kufi; from ʿAbdullāh bin Abī Abī Habibah said, I heard Abū al-Dardā’’ say, “I was sitting behind the Prophet (Allah ال َّنبِي صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َفقَا َل َيا اْ َبا ال َّد ْر َداء َمن شَ ِا َد اْ ْن َما اِلَ َه اِ َّما اللّه َواْنِّي َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه َو َج َب ْت لَ ُه bless him and give him peace) and he said: O Abū al-Dardā’’, he who bears witness that there is no god except Allah and that I am the الَج َّنة قُ ْلت َواِ ْن َزنَا َواِ ْن َس َر َق؟ َقا َل َف َسا َر َسا َع َة َف َعا َد Messenger of Allah, then Paradise is incumbent 19 ḤANAFĪ SCHOLARS لِ َكل َِام ِه َف ُق ْل ُت َواِ ْن َزنَا َواِ ْن َس َرقَ ؟ َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َواِ ْن َزنَا َواِ ْن َس َرقَ َواِ ْن َر ِغ َ اْنْي اْبِي ال َّد ْر َداء الح ِديث ُ ُج ُم َعة َ َف َكا َن اْ ُبو ال َّد ْر َداء ُي َح ِّدث بِ ِا َذا َعند ِم ْن َبر َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َو َي َضع for him. I said: Even if he commits fornication and steals? He remained silent for a moment and then repeated his words, so I said again: Even if he fornicates and steals? He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said: Even if he fornicates and اُ ْص ُبعه على اْنفه َو َيقُول َواِن رغ اني اْبِي ال َّد ْر َداء steals, despite what Abū al-Dardā’’ may think. Abū al-Dardā’’ would narrate this hadith every Jumah by the pulpit of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace), whilst placing his finger upon his nose and saying: Despite what Abū al-Dardā’’ may think.12 13 Ibn al-Tayyib said: The hadith is Ṣaḥīḥ, and it was related by the Imām’s of the Ṣaḥīḥ works. 12 The literal meaning of the saying refers to the nose of a person, it is a metaphor in the Arabic language. 13 Al-Ujalah fi Al-Ahadith al-Musalsalah (p.39) 20 H A N B A L I S C HO L A R S 6 HANBALI SCHOLARS THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF HANBALI SCHOLARS َاَ َلمسَلَسَلَبَالَ مَفقَهَاءَالفَنابلة It was narrated to me by Shaykh Muḥammad َحدث َنا:َحدث َنا بِ ِه الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني قال بِ ِه الْ ُمحدث الْ َف ِقيه الشَّ ْيخ َم ْح ُمود ال َّس ِّيد بِ ْن الس ِّيد الدومي الْ َح ْن َبلِ ّي َعن شَ ْيخه مص فى َّ ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اْ ْحمد الش ي َعن اْبِيه اْ ْحمد الش ي َعن ال َعلَّا َمة حسن بِ ْن عمر الش ي َعن مص فى بِ ْن سعد الرحيباني َعن ُمحدث الشَّ اح ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن اْ ْحمد السفاريني َواحمد البعلي ِلَا ُه َما َعن اْبِي الْ َم َوا ِهب ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َباقِي البعلي َعن اْبِيه الْ َف ِقيه الْ ُمحدث َّ الْ ُم ْقرِئ الشَّ ْيخ َع ْب ُد الْ َباقِي الْ َح ْن َبلِ ّي البعلي ث ال ِّد َمشْ ِقي َعن الشَّ ْيخ َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن البِ ِه وتي َعن التقي ِ شااأ الدّين َعن ال َق ِ التنوخي َعن َوالِده الق اضي َ َاضي ِ لي بِ ْن اْ ْحمد َ ّ شااأ الدّين اْبِي َحامد ابِ ْن ال ُّنور َع ِ البشبيشي الميداني َعن الق َاضي الْ ِع ّز اْبِي البر ات ِ َاضي الْ ُب ْر َهان اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن ال َّن ِ اْ ْحمد بِ ْن الق اصر نصر اللّه ِ الْ ِك َنانِي َعن الْجمال َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن الق َاضي َعلَاء الدّين ِ لي بِ ْن اْ ْحمد ّ لي الْك َنانِي َعن الْ َعلَاء اْبِي الْحسن َع ّ َع بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الفرضي ال ِّد َمشْ ِقي َعن الْفَخر ابِ ْن ُالب َخارِ ّي لي َح ْن َب بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اللّه المكبر الرصافي َعن ّ َعن اْبِي َع ِ اْبِي الْق َاس هبة اللّه بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َو ِاحد بِ ْن لي ال َّت ِمي ِمي ّ لي الْحسن بِ ْن َع ّ الحصيني َعن اْبِي َع الْ َم ْذ َهب الْ َو ِاع َعن اْبِي بكر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َج ْعفَر Yāsīn al-Fādānī who said; It was narrated to me by the Hadith specialist and jurist Shaykh Mahmud al-Sayyid bin Muḥammad al-Sayyid al-Dumi al-Hanbali; from his Shaykh Mustafa bin Aḥmad al-Shatti; from his father Aḥmad al-Shatti; from Allamah Ḥasan bin ʿUmar al-Shatti; from Mustafa bin Sa’d al-Ruhaybani; from the Hadith specialist of al-Sham Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad al-Saffarini and Aḥmad al-Ba’li, both of them; from Abū alMawahib Muḥammad bin Abd al-Baqi al-Ba’li; from his father the jurist, hadith specialist and recitor, Shaykh Abd al-Baqi al-Hanbali al-Ba’li and then al-Dimashqi; from Shaykh ʿAbd alRaḥmān al-Buhuti; from Taqi al-Tannukhi; from his father Qāḍī Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Hāmid Ibn al-Nur ʿAli bin Aḥmad al-Bashishi alMaydani; from Qāḍī al-Izz Abū al-Barakat Aḥmad bin al-Qāḍī al-Burhan Ibrahīm bin alNāṣir Nasrullah al-Kinani; from Jamāl ʿAbdullāh bin al-Qāḍī Ala’ al-Dīn ʿAli alKinani; from Al-Ala’ Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAli bin Aḥmad bin Muḥammad al-Fardi al-Dimashqi; from Al-Fakhr Ibn al-Bukhārī; from Abū ʿAli Hanbal bin ʿAbdullāh al-Mukbir al-Rasafi; from Abū al-Qāsim Hibatullah bin Muḥammad bin Abd al-Wahid bin Husaini (saad); from Abū ʿAli al-Ḥasan bin ʿAli al-Tamimi al-Madhab al- 21 H A N B A L I S C HO L A R S Waiz; from Abū Bakr Muḥammad bin Jafar alQati’i; from ʿAbdullāh Ibn al-Imām Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Hanbal; from his father; from Abū Adiyy; from Humayd; from ʿAnas who said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “If Allah desires good for a slave He utilizes him. They asked how does الْق ي ِعي َعن َع ْب ُد اللّه ابِ ْن ِاما َماح اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َح ْن َب َعن اْبِيه َعن اْبِي عدي َعن حميد َعن ان َقا َل َقا َل َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه يي َ َ َع َل ْي ِه َوسل اِذا اْ َرا َد اللّه بِ َع ْب ُد خيرا ْاس َت ْعمل ُه َقالُوا َي ْس َت ْع ِمل ُه َقا َل يوفقه لعم َصالح قب َموته He utilize him? He replied: He gives him the ability to perform righteous actions before his death.” Shaykh al-Fādānī commented that the hadith was related by Imām al-Tirmidhī.14 14 Al-Ujalah fi Al-Ahadith al-Musalsalah (p.41) 22 M E C C A N S C HO L A R S 7 MECCAN SCHOLARS ََك يَيي َا َلمسَلَسَلَبَالَ ي THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF MAKKAN SCHOLARS It was narrated to me by Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī who said; It was narrated to us by Shaykh ʿAbdullāh bin Muḥammad Ghazi alMakkī and Sayyid Aydarus bin Salim al-Bar alMakkī, both of them; from Sayyid Hussain bin Muḥammad al-Habshi al-Makkī; from Shaykh ʿUmar bin Abd al-Karim al-Attar al-Makkī; from Abd al-Mālik bin Abd al-Munim bin Taj al-Dīn al-Qali’ al-Makkī; from his father; from his grandfather; from Abū al-Asrar Ḥasan bin ʿAli al-Ujaymi al-Makkī; from Imām Zayn alAbidin al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī; from his father Abd al-Qāḍīr bin Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī; from his grandfather Yaḥyā bin Mukarram bin Muḥammad al-Muhib al-Akhir al-Ṭabarī alMakkī; from his grandfather Abū al-Maali alMuhib Muḥammad Ibn al-Radi Muḥammad bin Al-Muhib al-Awsat Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī; from the uncle of his father Imām Abū al-Yaman Muḥammad bin Aḥmad alṬabarī al-Makkī; from his father Shihāb Aḥmad bin al-Radi al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī; from his father, the Imām of the Maqam al-Khalil, Allamah Radi al-Dīn Ibrahīm bin Muḥammad bin Ibrahīm bin Abī Bakr bin Muḥammad bin Ibrahīm alHussaini al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī, and the chief Judge Al-Najm Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad the son of the chief judge Al-Jamāl Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥāfiz al-Muhib Abī al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad bin 23 َحدث َنا:َحدث َنا بِ ِه الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني قال الس ِّيد َّ بِ ِه الشَّ ْيخ َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد غَازِي الْ َم ِّك ّي َو الس ِّيد َّ عيدروأ بِ ْن َسال الْ َبار الْ َم ِّك ّي ِلَا ُه َما َعن ُح َس ْين بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الحبشي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن اْبِيه الْ ُم ْف ِتي الس ِّيد ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُح َس ْين الحبشي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن الشَّ ْيخ َّ عمر بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َكرِي الْ َع َّار الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن َع ْب ُد الْملك بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ ُمنع بِ ْن َتا الدّين القلعي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن اْبِيه لي العجيمي ّ َعن جده َعن اْبِي ا ْما ْ ْس َرار حسن بِ ْن َع الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن ِاما َماح زين العابدين ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن اْبِيه َع ْب ُد الْقَا ِدر بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن جده يحيى بِ ْن مكرح بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الْ ُمحب ا ْماْخير ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن جده اْبِي الْ َم َعالِي الْ ُمحب ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن الرضي ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن الْ ُمحب ا ْما ْ ْو َسط ُم َح َّمد ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن َع اْبِيه ِاما َماح اْبِي الْيمن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اْ ْحمد الشااأ اْ ْحمد بِ ْن الرضي َ ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن اْبِيه ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن َوالِده اِ َماح مقَاح الْ َخلِي ال َعلَّا َمة َر ِضي الدّين اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن اْبِي بكر بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي الْ ُح َس ْي ِني ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي ِ وقاضي الْق َُضاة ال َّن ْج اْبِي اْ ْحمد ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن َق اضي الْق َُضاة الْجمال ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن الْ َح ِاف الْ ُمحب اْبِي الْ َع َّباأ اْ ْحمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اللّه ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َقا َل ُه َو والشااأ اْ ْحمد ابِ ْن الرضي اْنا ِاما َماح عماد الدّين M E C C A N S C HO L A R S ʿAbdullāh al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī. He said as did Shihāb Aḥmad Ibn al-Radi; We were informed by Imām Imad al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Muḥammad bin ʿAli bin alHussain al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī. He said as did AlRadi al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī; We were informed by Shaykh Zaki al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd alRaḥmān bin Abī Hurmi Futuh al-Katib alMakkī; We were informed by Imām al-Ḥāfiz, the Khatib of Makka, Abū Hafs ʿUmar bin Abd al-Majid bin ʿUmar al-Qurashi, better known as al-MayʿAnashi al-Makkī; We were informed by my grandfather the Imām and Qāḍī, Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Hussain bin ʿAli bin al-Hussain al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī and Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAli bin Abī al-Qāsim Khalaf bin Hibatullah bin Qāsim bin ʿUmar bin al-Shimakh al-Kinani alShaybani, both of them said; We were informed by Abū al-Qāsim the son of the aforementioned Hibatullah; We were informed by Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan bin Aḥmad bin Ibrahīm bin Faras al-Abqasi al-Makkī; We were informed by Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad bin Nafi’ bin Aḥmad Ibn Ishaq bin Nafi’ al-Khuzai al-Makkī and Abū Bakr Aḥmad bin ʿAbdullāh bin Abd al-Mu’min; Both of them said, were informed by Abū Muḥammad Ishaq bin Aḥmad bin Ishaq bin Abī Bakr al-Khuzai al-Makkī; We were informed by the Imām and historian Abū al-Walid Muḥammad bin ʿAbdullāh bin Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin al-Walid al-Azraqi al-Makkī; It was narrated to me by my grandfather; from Saeed bin Salim, and he is Abū ʿUthmān al-Qaddah al-Makkī, and Salim bin Muslim, and he is al-Makkī; from Ibn Jurayj, he being the Muftī of Makka Abd al-Mālik bin Abd al-Aziz al-Makkī; from Ata, who is Ibn Abī Rabah al-Makkī; from Ibn ʿAbbās who said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “Allah descends upon this 24 لي بِ ْن ّ اْ ُبو ُم َح َّمد َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع الْ ُح َس ْين ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َقا َل ُه َو والرضي ال َّ َب ِر ّي ِ الْ َم ِّك ّي اْنا الشَّ ْيخ ز ي الدّين اْ ُبو الْق َاس َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن اْبِي حرمي فتوح الْ َكاتِب الْ َم ِّك ّي اْنا ِاما َماح الْ َح ِاف ِ ْخ يب َم َّكة اْ ُبو َح ْفص عمر بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ال مجيد بِ ْن عمر ِ ْال قرشي الْ َم ْع ُروف بالميانشي الْ َم ِّك ّي اْنا ِاما َماح ر ن ِ ا ْم ِا ْسلَاح َق اضي الْ َح َر َم ْينِ اْ ُبو المظفر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َعل ّي بِ ْن الْ ُح َس ْين ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي الشَّ ْي َبانِ ّي اْنا جدي ِاما َماح ِ الق لي بِ ْن الْ ُح َس ْين ّ َاضي اْ ُبو َع ْب ُد اللّه الْ ُح َس ْين بِ ْن َع ِ لي بِ ْن اْبِي الْق َاس ّ ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َواْ ُبو الْحسن َع خلي بِ ْن هبة اللّه بِ ْن َقاس بِ ْن عمر بِ ْن الشماخ ِ الْ ِك َنانِي الشَّ ْي َبانِ ّي َقا َما اْنا اْ ُبو الْق َاس خلي بِ ْن هبة اللّه الْ َم ْذ ُور اْنا اْ ُبو ُم َح َّمد الْحسن بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن فراأ العبقسي الْ َم ِّك ّي اْنا اْ ُبو الْحسن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ن َِافع بِ ْن اْ ْحمد ابِ ْن ا ِْس َحاق بِ ْن نَافِع الْ ُخ َز ِاع ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َواْ ُبو بكر اْ ْحمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ ُمؤمن َقا َما اْخْ َب َرن ََّا اْ ُبو ُم َح َّمد ا ِْس َحاق بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ا ِْس َحاق بِ ْن اْبِي بكر الْ ُخ َز ِاع ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي اْنا ِاما َماح المؤرخ اْ ُبو الْ َولِيد ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن الْ َولِيد ا ْما ْ ْز َرقِ ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي ثنى جدي َعن سعيد بِ ْن َسال ُه َو اْ ُبو ُع ْث َمان القداح الْ َم ِّك ّي وسلي بِ ْن ُمسل ُه َو الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن ابِ ْن جريج ُه َو مفتي َم َّكة َع ْب ُد الْملك بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َعزِيز الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن َع اء ُه َو ابِ ْن اْبِي َر َباح الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن ابِ ْن َع َّباأ َقا َل َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ينزل اللّه:َقا َل َي ْوح َولَ ْي َلة عشْ رين ومئة َر ْح َمة على َه َذا الْ َب ْيت ِس ُّتو َن ِم ْن َاا لل ائفين َواْ ْر َب ُعو َن للمصلين َو ِعشْ ُرو َن .للناظرين M E C C A N S C HO L A R S house every day and night one hundred and twenty mercies. Sixty of them are for those performing tawaf, forty for those praying and twenty for those looking.”15 Ibn al-Tayyib said: Related by Al-Bayhaqi in Shuab al-Iman, Al-Khatib in his Tarikh, Al-Sabuni in the second volume of Al-Miatayn and said: Hadith Gharib. Al-Sakhawi said it was graded Ḥasan by AlMundhiri in his Targhib and Al-Iraqi in Takhrij Ahadith al-Ihyā’, it being apparent that he graded it Ḥasan due to its supporting narrations. He said: The claim of Al-Sabuni that it is Gharib from the hadith of Ibn Jurayj is not correct, for Al-Bayhaqi said after relating it: It was narrated Yusuf bin Safar from Al-Awzai, from Ata, from Ibn ʿAbbās. Likewise it was related by Al-Tabarānī in Mujam al-Kabir said: This hadith has other routes of transmission from Ibn ʿAbbās, it was related by AlTabarānī in Al-Kabir, and Allah knows best.16 15 A brief treatise in explanation of this hadith was authored by the Makkan scholar, well known as the Shaykh al-Dalail of his era in the Hijaz, Shaykh Abd al-Haq al-Ilahabadi. 16 Al-Ujalah fi Al-Ahadith al-Musalsalah (p.45-46) 25 ASKING A QUESTION 8 ASKING A QUESTION َالسن َ اَ َلمسَلَسَلَبَالسَؤَالَعنَ ي THE PATTERN CHAIN REPORT OF ASKING A PERSON’S AGE I asked Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī regarding his age and he replied, “Mind your own business.” He related; from Shaykh ʿUmar Hamdan; from Sayyid ʿAli bin Zahir al-Watri; from Abd al-Ghani bin Abī Saeed al-Dihlawi; from Abid al-Sindī; from Sayyid Abd al-Razzaq al-Bakkari, the author of Al-Qati’; from Abd alKhaliq bin Bakr al-Mizjaji; from Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad bin Ibrahīm al-Kurani; from ʿAbdullāh bin Salim al-Basri; from ʿĪsa al-Jafari; from ʿAli al-Ajhuri; from Burhan al-Alqama; from Al-Sharaf Abd al-Haq al-Sinbati; from AlḤāfiz Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad bin ʿAli bin Hajr al-Asqalani; from ʿUmar bin Muḥammad bin Aḥmad bin Sulayman; from his father; from Abū al-Qāsim; from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Makkī; from Abū Ṭāhir, each of them saying, “I asked so and so regarding his age and he replied with: Mind your own business.” Al-Silafi said: I asked Abū al-Fath bin Zaban regarding his age and he replied, ‘mind your own business; for I asked ʿAli bin Muḥammad al-Laban regarding his age and he replied, ‘Mind your own business’; for I asked Abū al-Qāsim Hamza bin Yusuf al-Sahmi and replied, ‘Mind your own business’; for I asked Abū Bakr Muḥammad bin Adiyy al-Manqari regarding his age and he replied, ‘Mind your own business’; for I asked 26 لت الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني َعن ِس ِّن ِه َفقَا َل ُ َْسا َساْلت الشَّ ْيخ عمر َح ْمدَان:اْ ْقبِ ْ َع َلى شَ اْنِكَ َف َقا َل لي َّ َعن سنه َفقَا َل اقب على شَ اْنك َو ُه َو َعن ّ الس ِّيد َع بِ ْن َظاهر الوتري َعن َع ْب ُد الْ َغ ِن ّي بِ ْن اْبِي سعيد الس ِّيد َع ْب ُد ال َّر َّزاق َّ الدهلوي َعن َعابِد السندي َعن البكاري َصاحب الق يع َعن َع ْب ُد الْ َخالِق بِ ْن بكر المزجاجي َعن اْبِي َطا ِهر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي الكوراني يسى الْ َج ْع َفرِي َ َعن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن َسال الْ َب ْص ِر ّي َعن ِع لي اما ْ ْج ُاورِ ّي َعن الْ ُب ْر َهان العلقمي َعن ال ّشرف ّ َعن َع شااأ الدّين اْ ْحمد َ َِع ْب ُد الْحق السنباطي َعن الْ َحاف لي بِ ْن حجر الْ َع ْس َقلَانِي َعن عمر بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ّ بِ ْن َع ِ اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُس َل ْي َمان َعن اْبِيه َعن اْبِي الْق َاس َعن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن مكي َعن اْبِي َطا ِهر َقائِلا َو ِاحد ِم ْن ُا َساْلت فلَانا َعن سنه َفقَا َل اقب على شَ اْنك َقا َل الس َل ِفي َساْلت اْ َبا الْ َف ْتح بِ ْن زبان َعن سنه َفقَا َل اقب على شَ اْنك َف ِانِّي َساْلت عليا بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد اللبان َعن ِ سنه َفقَا َل اقب على شَ اْنك َف ِانِّي َساْلت اْ َبا الْق َاس الس ْا ِمي َفقَا َل اقب على شَ اْنك َف ِانِّي َّ وسي ُ َح ْم َزة بِ ْن ُي َساْلت اْ َبا بكر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن عدي الْم ْنقري َعن سنه ْ يسى ال ِّت ْر ِم ِذ ّي َ َفقَا َل اقب على شَ انك َف ِانِّي َساْلت اْ َبا ِع َعن سنه َفقَا َل اقب على شَ اْنك َف ِانِّي َساْلت بعض ASKING A QUESTION Abū ʿĪsa al-Tirmidhī regarding his age and he replied, ‘Mind your own business’; for I asked one of the companions of Imām al-Shafiʿī regarding his age, and he replied, ‘Mind your own business’; for I asked Al-Shafi regarding his age, and he replied, ‘Mind your own business’; for I questioned Mālik bin ʿAnas regarding his اْ ْص َحاأ الشَّ ِاف ِعي َعن سنه َفقَا َل اقب على شَ اْنك َف ِانِّي َساْلت الشَّ ِاف ِعي َعن سنه َفقَا َل اقب على شَ ا ْنك َف ِانِّي َساْلت َمالك بِ ْن ان َعن سنه فَقَا َل اقب على شَ اْنك َو َقا َل لَ ْي َ من الْم ُرُُ َوءة اِخْ َبار الرج َعن سنه َواِن َا َن َص ِغيرا استحقروه َواِن َا َن َبِيرا استارموه age and he replied, “It is not from the honourable conduct of a man to divulge his age, for if he is young they will regard him as insignificant and if old they will regard him as being of no use.” Shaykh Abid said: Al-Buwayti is meant by the use of the term, “One of the companions of Al-Shafiʿī” as explicitly mentioned in the Musalsalat of Sharaf bin Abī Asrun as in the first volume of the Fawaid of Abū al-Ḥasan al-Halabi and others. However Abū Bakr al-Naysaburi mentioned that the person who questioned Imām al-Shafiʿī was Al-Muzani, and Al-Shafiʿī linked it via Mālik from Rabia’, and the first view is the more well known. He said: This statement from Imām Mālik has been narrated by more than one person, amongst them being Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad bin ʿAli al-Azdi alMāliki.17 17 Manahil al-Salsalah (p.121) 27 G R A S P I N G T HE B E A R D 9 GRASPING THE BEARD THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH GRASPING THE BEARD َا َلمسَلَسَلَبالقبضَعَلََال يلحية OF 18 I was informed by Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn alFādānī who grasped his beard 19 and said, “I believe in Qadr, it’s good and bad, sweet and bitter.” He said; I was informed by Shaykh ʿUmar Hamdan al-Mahrasi and Shaykh ʿAbdullāh bin Muḥammad Ghazi, both of them grasped his beard and said, “I believe in Qadr, its good and bad, sweet and bitter.” The first of them from Sayyid ʿAli bin Zahir al-Watri and the second from Abd al-Jalil Barradah alMadani, both of them; from Abd al-Ghani alDihlawi; from Muḥammad Abid al-Sindī; from Sayyid ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Sulaiman al-Ahdal; from Amrullah bin Abd al-Khaliq bin Abī Bakr al-Mizjaji; from Muḥammad bin Aḥmad better known as Ibn Aqilah al-Makkī; from Ḥasan bin ʿAli al-Ujaymi; from ʿĪsa bin Muḥammad alJafari; from Nur ʿAli al-Ajhuri [Another Chain] It was also narrated by Muḥammad Abid; from his uncle Muḥammad Hussain al-Ansari; from 18 ض َ اْخْ َّ َََََّّّّّ ََّب َرنِي بِ ِه الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني َو َق َب َع َلى لِ ْح َي ِت ِه َو َقا َل ا َم ْن ُت ِبالْ قَ َدرِ َخ ْي ِر ِه َو َشََََََّّّّّّ ِّر ِه ُح ْل ِو ِه اْخْ َََََََََََّّّّّّّّّّّ ََّب َرنِي بِ ِه ال َّشَََََّّّّّ ْيخ عمر َح ْمدَان:َو ُم ِّر ِه َف َقا َل ال َم ْح َر ِسََََََّّّّّّي َوال َّشََََََّّّّّّ ْيخ َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد غَازِي ِض َُّ ِم ْن ُا َمَّا َع َلى لِ ْح َي ِتَّ ِه َو َقَّا َل ا َم ْنَّ ُت بَِّالْ َقَّ َدر َ َو َق َب لي بِ ْن ّ َخ ْي ِر ِه َو َشََََّّّّ ِّر ِه ُح ْل ِو ِه َو ُم ِّر ِه اماول َعن ال َّسََََّّّّ ِّيد َع َظاهر الوتري َوال ثَّانِي َعن َع ْب ُد الْ َجلِ ي برادة الْ مدنِي ِ لَ ا ُه َما َعن َع ْب ُد الْ َغ ِن ّي الدهلوي َعن ُم َح َّمد َعا ِبد الس ِّيد َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن ُس َل ْي َمان اماهدل َّ السندي َعن َعن ْامر ال ّله بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ا ْل َخالِق بِ ْن ْابِي بكر المزجاجي َعن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ْاح َمد الشاير بِابِ ْن عقيلة الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن لي العجيمي َعن ِعي َس َََََّّّّّى بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد ّ حس َََََّّّّّن بِ ْن َع لي اما ْ ْج ُاورِ ّي ّ الْ َج ْع َفرِي َعن ال ُّنور َع Shaykh ʿAbbās Ridwan al-Hasani al-Madani (1293-1346H) said in his Fath al-Bar bi Sharḥ Bulugh al-Watr min Mustalah Ahl al-Athar (p.48), "Perhaps the grasping of the beard is an indication that the matter is in the hands of Allah Most High...It is thus said in the common saying, “The beard of so and so is in my hand”, meaning under my control and decision, I deal with him as I wish. Likewise from it are His words Most High, “There is no creature except that He (Allah Most High) holds it by its forelock.” 19 Shaykh al-Fādānī even narrated this hadith from his female teachers such as Shaykha Amatullah the daughter of Shaykh Abd al-Ghani al-Mujaddidi. His students such as Shaykh Khalid al-Turkestani mention from him that he saw Shaykha Amatullah grasp her chin when narrating this hadith. 28 G R A S P I N G T HE B E A R D Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin Muḥammad al-Maghribi; from ʿAbdullāh bin Salim al-Basri; from Shams Muḥammad bin Ala al-Dīn alBabili; from Nur ʿAli al-Ajhuri; from Badr Muḥammad bin al-Radi al-Ghazzi; from Abū alfath Muḥammad bin Muḥammad al-Mizzi; from Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad bin ʿAli, the Muadhin in Ṣāliḥiyyah in Damascus; from Kamal Abū ʿAbdullāh Ibn Muḥammad bin alNahhas and Abū Hurayrah ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn al-Ḥāfiz al-Dhahabi, both of them; from Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān alBa’li; from Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad bin Ismāʿīlbin Aḥmad al-mardawi, the Khatib of Marda; from Abū al-Faraj Yaḥyā bin Mahmud al-Thaqafi; from his greatgrandfather Ḥāfiz Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʿīlbin Muḥammad al-Tamimi; from Shaykh Abū Bakr Aḥmad bin ʿAli bin Khalaf al-Shirazi; from Imām Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad bin ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim alNaysaburi; It was narrated to us by Zubair bin Abd al-Wahid al-Asadabadi; It was narrated to us by Abū al-Ḥasan Yusuf bin Abd al-Ahad alShafiʿī; It was narrated to us by Sulaiman bin Shuayb al-Kasai; It was narrated to us Saeed alAdam; It was narrated to us by Shihāb bin Kharash who said: I heard Yazid al-Raqashi narrate from ʿAnas bin Mālik who said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) said: A slave does not taste the sweetness of faith until he believes in Qadr, the good and the bad, sweet and bitter. He said: Then the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give peace) grasped his beard and said, “I believe in Qadr, the good and bad, sweet and bitter.” Thus said each of the narrators. I say, whilst I am grasping my beard, with a truthful intention and sound belief, “I believe in Qadr, its good and bad, sweet and bitter.” 29 (ح) َو َر َوا ُه ُم َح َّمد َعا ِبد اْ ْيضَََََََّّّّّّّا َعن َع مه ُم َح َّمد ُح َس َّ ْين ا ْمانْ َص َّارِ ّي َعن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد المغربي َعن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن َسال ا ْل َب ْص ِر ّي َعن الشَّ ْم لي ّ ُم َح َّم ََّّد بِ ْن َع َل ََّّاء ال ََّّدّين الب ََّّابلي َعن ال ُّنور َع اما ْ ْج ُاورِ ّي َعن الْ َب ْدر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن الرض ََََّّّّي الْ َغ ِّزي َعن اْبِي الْ َف ْتح ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الْمزي َعن اْبِي الْ َع َّباأ لي الْ ُم َؤ ّذن بصالحية دمشق َعن الْ َك َمال ّ ْا ْحمد بِ ْن َع اْبِي َع ْب ُد اللّه ابِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن النّحاأ َواْبِي ُه َر ْي َرة َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن ابِ ْن الْ َح ََّّ ِاف ال ََّّ َّذ َهبِ ّي ِ َل ََّّا ُه َم ََّّا َعن اْبِي الْ َع َّباأ اْ ْح مد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن البعلي َعن اْبِي َع ْب ُد اللّه ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ا ِْس َم ِاعي بِ ْن اْ ْحمد المرداوي خ يب مردا َعن ْابِي ا ْلفر يحيى بِ ْن َم ْح ُمود الثَّ َق ِف ّي َعن جده مامه الْ َح ِاف اْبِي الْقَا ِس َّ اِ ْس َّ َم ِاعي بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد لي بِ ْن ّ ال َّت ِمي ِمي َعن ال َّشََََََّّّّّّ ْيخ اْبِي بكر اْ ْحمََّّد بِ ْن َع خلي ال ِّش ََّّ َيرازِ ّي َعن ِاما َماح اْبِي َع ْب ُد اللّه ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ال ّله ا ْل َحا ِ ال َّن ْي َسَََََََّّّّّّّا ُبورِي َث َنا الزبير بِ ْن َع ْب ُد وسي بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ُ الْ َو ِاحد ا ْما سد ابادي َث َنا اْ ُبو الْحسن ُي كسائي َث َنا َّ ا ْما ْ َحد َ ْالش ِاف ِعي َث َنا ُس َل ْي َمان بِ ْن ُش َع ْيب ال خراش َقا َل َس ِمعت يزِيد َ سعيد ا ْمادح َث َنا َ شااأ بِ ْن الرقا ِش َّي يحدث َعن ان بِ ْن َمالك َقا َل َقا َل َر ُس َّ ْو ُل َما َي ِج ُد الْ َع ْب ُد َحل ََاو َة: اللّه ص ََََّّّّلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوس ََََّّّّل ِ َو ُح ْل ِو ِه، َح َّتى ُيؤ ِْم َن ِبا ْل قَ َدرِ َخ ْي ِر ِه َو َشََََََّّّّّّ ِّر ِه،اما َيم ِان ض َر ُسَََََّّّّّو ُل اللّه َصَََََّّّّّلَّى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َ َو َق َب: َقا َل. »َو ُم ِّر ِه ،«ا َم ْن ُت بِالْ َق َدرِ َخ ْي ِر ِه َو َش ََََّّّّ ِّر ِه: و َقا َل،َو َس ََََّّّّلَّ َ بِلِ ْح َي ِت ِه ُح ْل ِو ِه َو ُم ِّر ِه G R A S P I N G T HE B E A R D َو َه َك َذا َقا َل ُ ُّ َراو ِمن ال َّر َواة َواْقُول َواْنا َقابِض َع َلى لِ ْح َي ِتي َعن نِ َّية َص ََََََّّّّّّا ِد َقة َو َع ِق ْي َدة َصََََََّّّّّّ ِح ْي َحة ا َم ْن ُت بِالْ َق َدرِ َخ ْي ِر ِه َوشَ ِّر ِه ُح ْل ِو ِه َو ُم ِّر ِه Ayyub al-Khalwati said: This hadith is Ṣaḥīḥ and good. However Muḥammad bin Aḥmad bin Aqilah said: This hadith was related by al-Ḥākim, al-Khali’, Abū Nuʿaym, and there is some weakness in it. Al-Qawaqji said: It related by Ibn Asakir in his Tarikh with a pattern chain. Ibn al-Tayyib said that this is how it was related by al-Ḥākim in the section of Musalsal hadith in his work on the sciences of hadith. It was also related Abū Nuʿaym in Al-Ma’rifah in a pattern form, as also by Al-Dibaji and from Ibn Al-Mufaddal in their Musalsal hadith collections, Al-Ghaznawi and al-Khali’ in his Fawaid, Abd al-Ghaffar al-Sa’di in his Musalsalat and others, and it is not free of weakness. Shaykh Abd al-Baqi al-Ayyubi commented: I say: I do not know of the reason for its weakness, for all of its narrators are trustworthy, Shihāb was declared trustworthy by Ibn al-Mubarak, Abū Zurah, Ibn Main and Al-Ijli. As for the statement of Ibn Adiyy that there is in some of his narrations that which is reprehensible, then it does not harm him as a narrator.20 20 Manahil al-Salsalah (p.69) 30 ENDING WITH DUA 10 ENDING WITH DUA ََاَ َلمسَلَسَلَبختمَالجلَسَبالدعاء THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF FINISHING A GATHERING WITH DUA Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī informed us when he finished from his reading he made dua for the those in the gathering and said; The most learned scholar and hadith specialist Sayyid Muḥammad bin Muḥammad Zabarah al-Hasani al-Sanani al-Yamani informed us in Makka, when he finished from his reading he made dua for the those in the gathering and said; It was narrated to us by Shaykh al-Islām Qāḍī ʿAli bin ʿAli al-Yamani al-Sanani and ʿAbdullāh bin Aḥmad bin Muḥammad alJandari, when both of them finished reading they made dua for us and ended the gathering with dua, both of them said; It was narrated to us by Allamah al-Sayyid Ismāʿīlbin Muhsin bin Abd al-Karim Ishaq al-Hasani al-Sanani, when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to us by Al-Sayyid Allamah Aḥmad bin Zayd al-Kabsi and ʿAbdullāh bin Muḥammad bin ʿAli al-Shawkani, when of them finished reading thye made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. They both said; It was narrated to us by Shaykh al-Islām Qāḍī Muḥammad bin ʿAli al-Shawlani, when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to us by Allamah Al-Nur Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAli bin Ibrahīm bin Amir al-Shahid al-Sanani 31 اْخْ َب َرن ََّا بِ ِه الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني َف َل َّما فرغ مجل َوخت بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقال ْ ْمن الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا ماه ال الس ِّيد ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد َّ اْخْ َب َرن ََّا بِ ِه ال َعلَّا َمة الْمسند: الص ْن َعانِ ّي الْ َي َمانِ ّي بِ َم َّكة َف َل َّما فرغ من َّ زباره الحسني مجل َوخت بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َث َنا ْ ْالْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا ماه ال ِ شيخ ا ْم ِا ْسلَاح الق الص ْن َعانِ ّي َّ لي الْ َي َمانِ ّي ّ لي بِ ْن َع ّ َاضي َع َو َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الجنداري َف َل َّما فرغ مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء ْ ِْم ْن ُا َما من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال الس ِّيد ا ِْس َم ِاعي بِ ْن محسن بِ ْن َّ َقا َما َحدث َنا ال َعلَّا َمة الص ْن َعانِ ّي َف َل َّما فرغ من َّ َع ْب ُد الْ َكرِي ا ِْس َحاق الحسني مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا ْ ْالْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال الس ِّيد ال َع َّلا َمة اْ ْحمد بِ ْن زيد الكبسي َو َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن َّ ِم ْن ُا َما من لي الشَّ ْو َانِ ّي َفلَ َّما فرغ ّ ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َما َحدث َنا ْ ْالْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال ِ شيخ ا ْم ِا ْسلَاح الق لي الشَّ ْو َانِ ّي َف َل َّما ّ َاضي ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل ْ ْفرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال لي بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن ّ َحدث َنا ال َعلَّا َمة ال ُّنور اْ ُبو الْحسن َع الص ْن َعانِ ّي َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َّ َعامر الشَّ ِايد مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا َح ِامد بِ ْن حسن ْ َْوخت ال مجل ْ ْشَ ا ر َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال وسي َّ بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا ُ الس ِّيد ال َعلَّا َمة اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُي بِ ْن الْ ُح َس ْين الْعلوِي القاسمي الحسني َف َل َّما فرغ من ENDING WITH DUA when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to us by Hāmid bin Ḥasan Shakir when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua; It was narrated to us by Al-Sayyid Allamah Aḥmad bin Yusuf bin al-Hussain al-Alawi alQasimi al-Hasani when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to us by Al-Sayyid Burhan al-Dīn Ibrahīm bin al-Qāsim bin alImām al-Muayyid when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua; It was narrated to us by Al-Sayyid alHussain bin Aḥmad Zabarah when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to us by Abd al-Aziz bin Muḥammad al-Hubayshi when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua, he said; It was narrated to us by Al-Sayyid Al-Hadi bin Aḥmad al-Jalal when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to us by Abd alQāḍīr bin Ziyad al-Khawasti, when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to us by Abd al-Aziz bin Taqi al-Dīn al-Hubayshi when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to us by Al-Sayyid Ṭāhir bin Hussain al-Ahdal al-Zabidi when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to us by Al-Wajih ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin ʿAli bin Muḥammad bin al-Daybi’ a;-Shaybani when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to us by Abū al-ʿAbbās Zayn al-Dīn Aḥmad bin Aḥmad bin Abd al-Laṭīf al-Sharji in 32 مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا ْ ا ْل ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ا ْل ِ الس ِّيد بر َهان الدّين اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن الْق َاس بِ ْن ِاما َماح َّ مجل ْ ْالْ ُم َؤيد َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال الس ِّيد الْ ُح َس ْين بِ ْن اْ ْحمد زباره َّ بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء ْ َْف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال َقا َل َحدث َنا َع ْب ُد الْ َعزِيز بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الحبيشي َف َل َّما فرغ مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا ْ ْمن الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال الس ِّيد الْ َاا ِدي بِ ْن اْ ْحمد الْجلَال َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َّ مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا َع ْب ُد الْقَا ِدر ْ َْد َعا لنا َوخت ال بِ ْن زِ َياد الخواستي َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا َع ْب ُد الْ َعزِيز بِ ْن َت ِق ّي الدّين ْ ْال مجل ْ ْالحبيشي َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال الس ِّيد َطا ِهر بِ ْن ُح َس ْين اماهدل َّ بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا مجل ْ ْالزبي ِد ّي فَ َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال لي بِ ْن ّ بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا الْ َو ِجيه َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن َع ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن الديبع الشَّ ْي َبانِ ّي َفلَ َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا اْ ُبو الْ َع َّباأ زين ْ ْلنا َوخت ال الدّين اْ ْحمد بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اللَّ ِ يي الشرجي بزبيد مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء ْ َْف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال َقا َل َحدث َنا نَ ِفي الدّين ُس َل ْي َمان بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي الْعلوِي البوماني ال َّر ِاش ِدي َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا الْمسند جمال الدّين اْ ُبو ْ ْال َع ْب ُد اللّه ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن الحبيشي َف َل َّما فرغ مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل ْ ْمن الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال َحدث ِني َوالِدي َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ِ لي ْ ْال ّ مجل بِال ُّد َعاء َقا َل َحدث َنا اْ ُبو َح ْفص عمر بِ ْن َع الشرعبي بتعز الْيمن َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا ِ مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا الق َاضي اْ ُبو ْ َْوخت ال ا ِْس َحاق اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن اْبِي بكر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي مجل َد َعا لنا َوخت ْ ْال َّ َب ِر ّي َف َل َّما فرغ من ال ENDING WITH DUA Zabid when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to us by Nafis al-Dīn Sulayman bin Ibrahīm al-Alawi al-Bulani al-Rashidi, when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated by the hadith specialist Jamāl alDīn Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad bin ʿAbd alRaḥmān al-Hubayshi when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to me by my father, when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to me Abū Hafs ʿUmar bin ʿAli al-Sharabi in Ti’z in Yemen, when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to us by Qāḍī Abū Ishaq Ibrahīm bin Abī Bakr Muḥammad bin Ibrahīm al-Ṭabarī, when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to us by the jurist Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Hurmi Futuh bin Banin al-Katib al-Makkī, when he finished reading he made dua for us and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to us by Siraj al-Dīn Abū Hafs ʿUmar bin Abd alMajid al-MayʿAnashi al-Qurashi, when he finished reading he made dua for us and ِ مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا ا ْل َف ِقيه ْا ُبو الْق َاس َع ْب ُد ْ ا ْل ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن اْبِي حرمي فتوح بِ ْن بِ ْن َين الْ َكاتِب الْ َم ِّك ّي مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء ْ َْف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال َقا َل َحدث َنا سرا الدّين اْ ُبو َح ْفص عمر بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ِ ْمجيد الميانشي ال ِ ْال قرشي َفلَ َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل اْخْ َب َرن ََّا اْ ُبو ال َّا ِهر ْ ْلنا َوخت ال لي الشَّ ْي َبانِ ّي ال َّ َب ِر ّي َ َذلِك َقا َل ّ المظفر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع مح ِاملِي َ َذلِك َ ْاْخْ َب َرن ََّا اْ ُبو ال َّا ِهر يحيى بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد ال َقا َل اْنا اْ ُبو الْحسن َجابر بِ ْن َياسر الحنائي َ َذلِك َقا َل اْنا اْ ُبو َطا ِهر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن المخلفي َ َذلِك َقا َل اْنا اْ ُبو َج ْعفَر اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ا ِْس َحاق بِ ْن بِ ِه لُول َ َذلِك َقا َل اْنا اْبِي ِاما َماح ا ِْس َحاق بِ ْن بِ ِه لُول َ َذلِك َقا َل اْنا مادي َ َذلِك َقا َل اْنا َمالك بِ ْن ان ْ َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن َ َذلِك َقا َل اْنا ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ِش َااأ َ َذلِك اْناَ ُع ْر َوة َ َذلِك َقا َل َحدَّثت َنا َعائِشَ ة فَ َل َّما َف َر َغت ِم َن الْ ِق َرا َءة مجلِ بِال ُّد َعا ِء َو َقالَت َا َن ْ ََد َع ْت لَ َنا َو َخ َت َم ْت ال َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل اِ َذا َف َر َغ ِمن َح ِد ْي ِث ِه َواْ َرا َد اْن َي ُق ْوح ِمن َم ْجلِ ِس ِه َيقُول اللّا َّ ا ْغ ِف ْر لَ َنا َما َاْخْ َانَا َو َما َت َع َّم ْدنَا َو َما اْ ْس َر ْرنَا َو َما اْ ْع َل َّنا َو َما اْنْ َت اْ ْعل بِ ِه ِم َّنا اْنْ َت الُم َق ّدح َواْنْ َت ال ُم َؤخِّ ر َما اِلَه اِ َّما اْنْ َت َ َ finished the gathering with dua. He said; We َ were informed by Abū al-Ṭāhir Yaḥyā bin َ Muḥammad al-Mahamili in a similar way, he said; We were informed by Abū al-Ḥasan Jābir َ bin Yasir al-Hanai in a similar way, he said; We َ were informed by Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Makhlafi in a similar way. َ He said; I was informed by Abū Jafar Aḥmad َ bin Ishaq bin Bahlul in a similar way, he said; I َ was informed by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Mahdi in a similar way, he said; I was informed by Mālik 33 َ ENDING WITH DUA bin ʿAnas in a similar way, he said; I was َ informed by Muḥammad bin Shihāb in a similar َ way, [he said]; I was informed by Urwah in a similar way, he said: َ Aisha narrated to us, and when she had finished َ from the reading she supplicated for us and ended the gathering with a prayer and said, “The َ Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give َ him peace) when he would finish his speech and wished to stand up from his sitting place would say: O Allah, for give us for the mistakes which we have made, that which has been deliberate, that which has been in secret, that which has been public and that which You are more knowledgeable of than us. You are the First and the Last and there is no god except You.” This hadith was mentioned as the final narration by Shaykh al-Fādānī in his work Al-Ujalah fi AlAhadith al-Musalsalah without any reference. 34 َ THE TIMES WE LIVE IN 11 THE TIMES WE LIVE IN َمسلسلَبَــــَ«يرح ممَاّللهَ مفَلنًاَكيفَلو THE PATTERN CHAIN ḤADĪTH OF THE STATEMENT, “ALLĀH HAVE »أدركَزمانفَناَهذا MERCY ON SO AND SO, WHAT IF THEY HAD LIVED IN OUR TIME” We were informed by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā who said; our Shaykh ʿUmar bin Hamdan al-Mahrasi said; we were informed by Al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAli alWatri with his chain to Urwah from ʿĀ’ishah (Allah be pleased with her) who said: Messenger of Allah ﷺ The said, “In some poetry there is certainly wisdom.” ʿĀ’ishah (Allah be pleased with her) said: Allāh have mercy on ، اْخْ َب َرنَا ال َّش َََََّّّّّيخ َع ْبد ال َّر ْح َمن بِن اْبِي َب َكر ال ُم َّلا ، َقا َل َش َََّّّيخناَ ُع ْمر بِن َح ْم َدان ال َم ْح َر ِس َََّّّي: َقا َل الَّسيد ُم َح ّم َّد َعلِ َّي الَّ َو ْت ِري بِ ََّس َن ِد ِه َّ اْخْ َب َرنَا:َقا َل قال: اِلَى ُع ْر َوة َعن َعائِشَ ة َر ِضي اﷲ َعناا َقالَ ْت وقالت، ا َّن ِم َن الشِّ ْع ِر لَ ِح ْك َم ًة: رسول اﷲ ﷺ وهو، َي ْر َح ُ اﷲُ لَبِ ْيداﹰ: عائش ََّّة رض ََّّي اﷲ عناا : الذي يقول ْ اش ِفي اْ ْ َن ِاف ِا ُ َذ َه َب الَّ ِذ َين ُي َع ْ اش ِفي اْ ْ َن ِاف ِا ُ َذ َه َب الَّ ِذ َين ُي َع يت ِفي َخ َل ٍي َِج ْل ِد ا ْما ْ ْج َر ِأ ُ َو َب ِق يت ِفي َخ َل ٍي َِج ْل ِد ا ْما ْ ْج َر ِأ ُ َو َب ِق َي َتاْ َّلُو َن َملا َم ًة َو َم َذ َّم ًة َي َتاْ َّلُو َن َملا َم ًة َو َم َذ َّم ًة ِ اأ َقائِلُ ُا ْ َواِ ْن لَ ْ َيشْ غ َب ُ َو ُي َع ِ اأ َقائِلُ ُا ْ َواِ ْن لَ ْ َيشْ غ َب ُ َو ُي َع ي َ َ ْي، َي ْر َح ُ اﷲُ لَبِ ْيداﹰ: قالت عائشَََّّّة: قال عروة ُ َي ْر َح ُ اﷲ: لَو اْ ْد َر َك َز َمانَ َنا َهَّ َََّّّ َذا ؟ وقَّ َََّّّال عَّ َََّّّروة Urwah reported that ʿĀ’ishah said, Allah have َ ي لَو اْ ْد َر َت َز َمانَ َنا َه َذا؟ َو َقا َ َ ْي،َعائِشَ ة mercy on Labid, how would it have been if he : ل هشاح had lived in our time? يََََّّّّي لََََّّّّو ادرك زماننا هذا ؟، يرح اﷲ عََََّّّّروة Urwah said: Allāh have mercy on Aisha, how يي لو ادرك، يرح اﷲ هشَََََّّّّّاماﹰ: وقال و يع would it have been if he had lived in our time? Hisham said: Allāh have mercy on Urwah, how يي، ً يرح اﷲ و يعا: زماننا هذا ؟ وقال علي would it have been if he had lived in our time? يََََََََّّّّّّّّرح اﷲ: لو ادرك زماننا هذا ؟ وقال ابو بشر Waki’ said: Allāh have mercy on Hisham, how يَّ َََّّّي لَّ َََّّّو ادرك زماننا هذا ؟ وقال ابن، عليَّ َََّّّاﹰ would it have been if he had lived in our time? ʿAli said: Allāh have mercy on Waki’, how يي لو ادرك زماننا، يرح اﷲ ابا بشََّّر: حسََّّاح ، يرح اﷲ ابن حساح: هَََّّّذا؟ وقَََّّّال ابو الحسين would it have been if he had lived in our time? Labid, for he is the one who said: 35 THE TIMES WE LIVE IN Abū Bishr said: Allāh have mercy on ʿAli, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Ibn Hussam said: Allāh have mercy on Abū Bishr, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Abū al-Hussain said: Allāh have mercy on Ibn Hussam, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Ibn Badran said: Allāh have mercy on Abū alHussain, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Al-Silafi said: Allāh have mercy on Ibn Badran, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Al-Hamdani said: Allāh have mercy on Al-Silafi, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Abū al-Fadl Sulaiman said: Allāh have mercy on Jafar al-Hamdani, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Al-Alai said; Allāh have mercy on Sulaiman, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Ibn Zahirah said: Allāh have mercy on Al-Alai, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Umm Hani said: Allāh have mercy on Ibn Zahirah, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Ḥāfiz al-Suyuti said: Allāh have mercy on Umm Hani, how would it have been if she had lived in our time? Ibn ʿAbd al-Ghaffar said: Allāh have mercy on Jalal al-Suyuti, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Qutb al-Dīn said: Allāh have mercy on our Shaykh bin ʿAbd al-Ghaffar, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? 36 يرح: يي لو ادرك زماننا هذا ؟ وقال ابن بدران يي لو ادرك زماننا هذا ؟ وقال، اﷲ ابا الحسين يَََّّّي لَََّّّو ادرك، يرح اﷲ ابن بَََّّّدران: السلفي ، يرح اﷲ السََّّلفي: زماننا هذا ؟ وقال الامداني يي لو ادرك زماننا هذا؟ وقَّال ابوالفض سليمان يَّي لَّو ادرك، يَّرح اﷲ جعفَّراﹰ الامَّداني: ، يرح اﷲ سليمان:زماننَََّّّا هَََّّّذا ؟ وقَََّّّال العلائي : يي لو ادرك زماننَََّّّا هَََّّّذا؟ وقَََّّّال ابَََّّّن ظاَََّّّيرة يي لو ادرك زماننا هذا؟، يَََََََََّّّّّّّّّرح اﷲ العلائي يَّي لَّو، يرح اﷲ ابن ظاَّيرة: وقالت اح هانيء يرح:ادرك زماننا هذا ؟ قال الحاف السََََََّّّّّّيوطي يي لو ادر ت زماننا هذا؟ وقال، اﷲ اح هانيء ، يرح اﷲ الجلََّّال السََََََّّّّّّيوطي: ابن عبََّّدالغفََّّار : يي لَََّّّو ادرك زماننَََّّّا هَََّّّذا؟ وقَََّّّال ق ب الدين يي لََََََّّّّّّو، يرح اﷲ شيخنا احمد بن عبدالغفار : ادرك زماننَّ َََّّّا هَّ َََّّّذا؟ وقَّ َََّّّال الشيخ احمد العج يي لو ادرك زماننَّ َََََََََّّّّّّّّّا، يرح اﷲ ق ب الدين يرح اﷲ احمد: هَّ ََّّذا؟ وقَّ ََّّال مَّ ََّّوماي الشريي يي لو ادرك زماننا هذا؟ قال الشََََََّّّّّّيخ، العج ، يرح اﷲ موماي الشََّّريي:محمد ابن س ََّّ َََََََّّّّّّّنة يي لو ادرك زماننا هذا؟ وقََََّّّّال الََََّّّّشيخ صََََّّّّالح يي، يرح اﷲ الشيخ محمد بن سنة: الفَّلاني : لو ادرك زماننا هذا؟ وقال الَََّّّشيخ محمَََّّّد عابَََّّّد يي لو ادرك،يرح اﷲ ش ََّّيخنا ص ََّّالح الفلاني يرح اﷲ:ز ماننا هذا ؟ وقال الشََََََّّّّّّيخ عبدالغني يي لو ادرك، شيخنا الشيخ محمد عابد السندي يرح: زماننا هذا؟ وقال السيد محمد علي الوتري يي لو ادرك، اﷲ الشََََََّّّّّّيخ عبد الغني الدهلوي : زماننا هذا؟ وقَّال الَّشيخ عمر حمدان المحرسي يرح اﷲ شََََََّّّّّّيخنا السََََََّّّّّّيد محمد علي بن ظاهر THE TIMES WE LIVE IN Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ajl said: Allāh have mercy on Qutb al-Dīn, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Mawlay al-Sharif said: Allāh have mercy on Aḥmad al-Ajl, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Shaykh Muḥammad Ibn Sinnah said: Allāh have mercy on Mawlay al-Sharif, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fulani said: Allāh have mercy on Shaykh Muḥammad bin Sinnah, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Shaykh Muḥammad Abid said: Allāh have mercy on our Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fulani, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghani said: Allāh have mercy on our Shaykh Muḥammad Abid al-Sindī, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAli al-Watri saod: Allāh have mercy on Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghani alDihlawi, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Shaykh ʿUmar Hamdan al-Mahrasi said: Allāh have mercy on our Shaykh Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAli bin Zahir al-Watri, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā said: Allāh have mercy on Shaykh ʿUmar Hamdan al-Mahrasi, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? I say: Allāh have mercy on Shaykh ʿAbd alRaḥmān bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā, how would it have been if he had lived in our time? 37 وقال الشَّ يخ، يَّي لَّو ادرك زماننا هذا؟، الوتري يرح اﷲ ش ََََّّّّيخنا:َع ْبد ال َّر ْح َمن بِن اْبِي َب َكر ال ُملَّا يي لو ادرك، الَّشيخ عمَّربن حمدان المحرسي يرح اﷲ شيخنا الشَّ يخ: وانا اقول، زماننا هَّ ََّّذا ؟ يَّ ََّّي لَّ ََّّو ادرك، َع ْبد ال َّر ْح َمن بِن اْبِي َب َكر ال ُملَّا زماننَّا هذا؟ THE TIMES WE LIVE IN Ibn Fahd said in Al-Mawahib al-Saniyyah: Al-Alai said that the hadith was Ṣaḥīḥ in terms of its pattern chain, and it has been transmitted by other than this route. Ibn al-Tayyib said that the scholars of Musalsal narrations are agreed upon relating it.21 21 Ithaf al-Ikhwan (p.165) 38 T H E C HA P T E R O F T HE R O W 12 THE CHAPTER OF THE ROW َاَلمَسَلَسَلَبَ مَسوَرَةََالصَف THE PATTERN CHAIN ḤADĪTH OF THE RECITAL OF SURAH AL-SAFF We were informed by Shaykh Muḥammad اْخْ َب َرن ََّا: قال، اْخْ َب َرن ََّا الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني ، الم ْح َر ِسَََََََّّّّّّّي َ ال َّشَََََََّّّّّّّ ْيخ عمر ِب ْن َح ْمَََّّّدَان ، قَّ َََََََّّّّّّّراعلي ال َّسَّ ِّيد ُم َح َّمد علي الوتري:قَّ َََََََّّّّّّّال سََّّورة الَّ َََََََّّّّّّّصََّّي ؛، وال َّش َّ ْيخ فالح الظاهري َعن َع ْب ُد الغني ابِ ْن اْبِي سعيد،بروايَََّّّة اماول الوتري َعن عمه، َعن ال َّش َّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد عابَََََََََّّّّّّّّّد، ا ددي َعن اْبِيه الشَّ ْيخ، ُم َح َّمد حسين امانصاري السندي َعن الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد هاش، ُم َح َّمد مَّراد امانَّصاري َعن الشَّ ْيخ َع ْب ُد القَََّّّادر مفَََّّّتي الحنفيَََّّّة، السندي َعن ال َّشَّ ْيخ احمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد النخلي ؛، بمكَّ َََََََّّّّّّّة َعن الَََّّّشريي ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن، وبرواية الثاني الظَََّّّاهري َعن الشَّ ْيخ علَّي الميلَّي امازهَّري، علي السنوسي َعن نور، الس ِّيد مرتَََّّّضى الزبيدي َّ َعن، المَََّّّالكي سمعته من: قال، الدين علي بِ ْن مكرح ﷲ العدوي َعن،شََّّيخنا الَّ َََََََّّّّّّّشََّّم ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن عقيلة المكي قَّ َََََََََّّّّّّّّّال في، المحدث احمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد النخلي وسمعت على شيخنا: >ثبتَّ َََََّّّّّه<بغيَّ َََََّّّّّةال البين الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد المذ ور ََََََّّّّّّ ي َعني ابِ ْن علاء الََََََّّّّّّدين ، البَّ ََّّابليَّ ََّّ الحديث المسلس بقراءة سورة الصي َعن الشااأ، بقراءته لاا من لفظه على من حَّضر َعن الَّ ََََّّّّنج، احمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الشلبي الحنفَّ ََََّّّّي َعن شَََََََََّّّّّّّّّيخ اماسَّلاح ز رياء، ُم َح َّمد الغي ََََََََّّّّّّّّي َعن الحاف اْبِي النعي رض ََََّّّّوان بِ ْن، امانص ََََّّّّاري Yāsīn al-Fādānī, he said; We were informed by Shaykh ʿUmar bin Hamdan al-Mahrasi, he said; Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAli al-Watri, Shaykh Falih alZahiri recited all of Surah al-Saff to me, the transmission of the first, meaning Al-Watri; from ʿAbd al-Ghani Ibn Abī Saeed alMujaddidi; from Shaykh Muḥammad Abid; from his uncle Muḥammad Hussain al-Ansari from Shaykh Muḥammad Hashim al-Sindī; from Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qāḍīr, the Ḥanafī Muftī of Makka; from Shaykh Aḥmad bin Muḥammad al-Nakhli; And with the transmission of the second, meaning Al-Zahiri; from Sharif Muḥammad bin ʿAli al-Sanusi; from Shaykh ʿAli al-Mili alAzhari al-Māliki; from Sayyid Murtaḍā alZabīdī; from Nur al-Dīn ʿAli bin MukarraMullāh al-Adawi, he said; I heard it from our Shaykh Shams Muḥammad Ibn Aqilah al-Makkī; from the hadith specialist Aḥmad bin Muḥammad al-Nakhli, he said in his Thabat Bughyah al-Talibin; I heard it from our teacher, Shaykh Muḥammad the aforementioned – meaning Ibn Ala al-Dīn alBabili, the hadith of the recitation of Surah alSaff, by his personally reciting it to those who attended; from Shihāb Aḥmad bin Muḥammad al-Shalabi al-Ḥanafī; from Najm Muḥammad 39 T H E C HA P T E R O F T HE R O W ، َعن ْابِي اسحاق ابراهي التنوخي،ُم َح َّمد العقَّبي َعن اْبِي العباأ احمد بِ ْن اْبِي طالب الحجَّ ََََََََََََّّّّّّّّّّّّار َعن اْبِي المنجا َع ْب ُد ﷲ بِ ْن عمر،الدمََََََََََََّّّّّّّّّّّّش ََََّّّّقي َعن اْبِي الوقَََّّّت َع ْب ُد اماول بِ ْن عيَََّّّسى، البغدادي َعن اْبِي الحسََّّن َع ْب ُد الرحمن بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد، الاروي َعن اْبِي ُم َح َّمد َع ْب ُد ﷲ بِ ْن احمد بِ ْن، الداودي اْخْ َب َرن َََََََََّّّّّّّّا ابو عمران، عيسَّى بِ ْن عمر السَّرخسَّي اْخْ َب َرن ََّ ََََّّّّا ابو ُم َح َّمد،عيسى بِ ْن عمر الَّ ََََّّّّسمرقندي َحَّدث َنَّا: قََّّال،َع ْبَّ ُد ﷲ بِ ْن َع ْبَّ ُد الرحمن الََّّدارمي َعن يحيى بِ ْن اْبِي، َعن اماوزاعي، ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َّثير َعن َع ْب ُد، َعن اْبِي س َََّّّلمة بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الرحمن، ثير ِ " َق َع ْدنَا نَف ًَرا ِم ْن اْ ْص َََّّّ َح: قال، ﷲ بِ ْن س َََّّّلاح اأ : َف ُق ْل َنا، َف َت َذا َ ْرنَا، َ ََّر ُس ْو ُل اللّه َصلَّى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َو َسل لَ ْو نَ ْع َل ُ اْ َّي اما ْ ْع َم ِال اْ َح َّب اِلَى ال ّله لَ َع ِم ْل َنا ُه؟ َفاْنْ َز َل ِ { َس َّ َّب َح اللّه َما ِفي ال َّس َّ َم َو: َّ اللّه َع َّز َو َج ات َو َما ِفي } َياْ ُّي َاا ا َّل ِذ َين ا َم ُنوا1{ ُ ض َو ُه َو الْ َعزِي ُز الْ َح ِكي ِ اما ْ ْر } َقا َل َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن2-1 لِ َ َتقُولُو َن َما ما َت ْف َعلُو َن اية َ َّ َق َراْ َها َع َل ْي َنا َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه َصلَّى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َو َسل:َسلا ٍح َه َك َذا al-Ghayti; from Shaykh al-Islām Zakariyyah alAnsari; from Ḥāfiz Abū al-Nuʿaym Ridwan bin Muḥammad al-Uqba; from Abū Ishaq Ibrāhīm al-Tannukhi; from Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad bin Abī Talib al-Hajjar al-Dimashqi; from Abū alManja ʿAbdullāh bin ʿUmar al-Baghdādi; from Abū al-Waqt ʿAbd al-Awwal bin ʿĪsa alHarawi; from Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Muḥammad al-Dāwūdi; from Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh bin Aḥmad bin ʿĪsa bin ʿUmar al-Sarakhsi; We were informed by Abū Imran ʿĪsa bin ʿUmar al-SamarqandĪ; We were informed by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Darimi, he said; Muḥammad bin Kathir narrated to us; from AlAwzai; from Yaḥyā bin Abī Kathir; from Abū Salamah bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; from ʿAbdullāh bin Salam who said, “We a group from the companions of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) sat and discussed saying: If we were to know the action which is most beloved to Allah we would do it. Allah ( َّ ) َع َّز َو َجrevealed: All that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth proclaim Allah’s purity, and He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise. (1) O you who believe, why do you say what you do not do? (2) ʿAbdullāh bin Salam said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) recited it to us like this.22 Ibn al-Tayyib said: This hadith is Ṣaḥīḥ and continuous in terms of its chain and pattern, its narrators being trustworthy, rather some of the Huffaz said it is the most authentic of the Musalsal hadith which we have found and the most authentic Musalsal narrated in the world. It was related by AlTirmidhī in his Jami’, al-Ḥākim in Al-Mustadrak in a Musalsal form, and he graded it Ṣaḥīḥ according to the criteria of Al-Bukhārī and Muslim.23 22 The whole of this chapter of the Quran al-Karim is recited. 23 Manahil al-Salsalah 162: 40 THE PURE FAMILY Forty Hadith T HE P ATTERN C HAIN H ADITH OF N OBILITY (T HE P URE F AMILY ) Allamah Aḥmad bin Yaḥyā Hāmid al-Dīn al-Yamani said in Nazm Ajwad al-Ahadith al-Musalsalah (p.12): This hadith is Musalsal by means of the Itrah, known in the lands of Yemen from long ago and to this day as Silsilah al-Ibriz bi al-Sanad al-Aziz. The author of the Tabaqat al-Zaydiyyah Sayyid Ibrahīm bin al-Qāsim bin alMuayyad al-Hasani al-Yamani, from al-Shihar and then of al-Taiz (d.1153H) has a biographical entry for the compiler of the Silsilah al-Ibriz, Sayyid Ubaydullah bin ʿAli al-Jalabadhi, attributed to Jalabadh, an area that was in Naysabur. He likewise has biographical entries for other narrators from its chain who lived in the past. It was commented on by Allamah al-Shaykh Ṣāliḥ bin Ṣiddīq al-Namazi al-Ansari al-Shafiʿī al-Yamani who passed away in the year 975, in a work entitled Al-Qawl al-Wajiz fi Sharḥ Ahadith Silsilah al-Ibriz. 41 THE PURE FAMILY شاف َ ْ ََا ُمل َس ْل َسل بِ ْال ِ ( َا ْل ِع ْتة َال َّط )اه َرة َ THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF NOBILITY (THE PURE FAMILY) We were informed by Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī who said; We were informed by the senior jurist and most learned scholar, Sayyid Muḥammad Dāwūd bin ʿAbd alRaḥmān Hajr al-Qudaymi; from Sayyid Abd alHadi bin Thabit al-Nahari; from the Musnid Al-Wajih Sayyid ʿAbd alRaḥmān bin Sulaiman al-Ahdal; from Sayyid Abū al-Fayd Muḥammad Murtada bin Muḥammad al-Zabidi; We were also informed by Allamah Sayyid Aydarus bin Salim al-Bar alMakkī [Another Chain] from Sayyid Alawi bin Aḥmad al-Saqqaf, the Naqib of the Sayyids of Makka; from Sayyid Alawi bin Safi al-Jifri al-Madani; from Sayyid Mansur bin Yusuf al-Budayri al-Madani; from Sayyid Muḥammad Murtada bin Muḥammad al-Zabidi; from Al-Safi Sayyid Aḥmad bin Muḥammad Sharif Maqbul al-Ahdal; from Sayyid al-Wajih ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Aslam bin al-Afif al-Makkī; from the Musnid Jamāl Sayyid Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr al-Shilli al-Makkī; from his father Sayyid Imām Abū Bakr al-Shilli; from Sayyid and Jurist Umr bin ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Basri al-Makkī; from Sayyid, Allamah, Musnid, Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Aḥmad Anqa’ al-Yamani; from his father Imām, Allamah al-Sharif Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad bin Aḥmad Anqa’ hearing from his father; Sayyid Shihāb al-Dīn Abī Fatha Aḥmad bin Rumaytha bin ʿAli al-Hussaini al-Mahannawi al-Musawi; from his father who said; We were informed by my father Sayyid Nur al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAli al-Murtdada bin Anqa’ al-Musawi; I was informed by my father Sayyid Zayn al-Dīn Abū Murbi’ Muḥammad bin Anqa’ Hamza alMusawi; I was informed by my father Sayyid 42 :اْخْ َب َرن ََّ َََََََّّّّّّّا بِ ِه ال َّش َّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسََّّين الفاداني فقال الس ِّيد ُم َح َّمد َدا ُود َّ اْخْ َب َرن ََّ َّا بِ ِه ال َعلَّا َمة الْ َف ِقيه المعمر بِ ْن حسََََََّّّّّّن بِ ْن يحيى الْ َب ْحر َعن َشََََََّّّّّّ ْي خه َخاتِ َمة الْ ُم َحقِّقين ال َّسََََََّّّّّّ ِّيََّّد َد ُاود بِ ْن َع ْبََّّ ُد ال َّر ْح َمن حجر القديمي َعن ال َّس ََََّّّّ ِّيد َع ْب ُد الْ َاا ِدي بِ ْن ثَابت النااري َعن الْم سند الْ َو ِجيه ال َّس ِّيد َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن ُس َل ْي َمان اماهدل َعن ال َّسَََّّّ ِّيد اْبِي الْ َف ْيض ُم َح َّمد مرتضَََّّّى بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الزبي ِد ّي الس ِّيد عيدروأ بِ ْن َسال َّ (ح) َواْخْ َب َرن ََّ َََّّّا بِ ِه ال َعلَّا َمة الْ َبار الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن ال َّس َََّّّ ِّيد علوي بِ ْن اْ ْحمد الس َََّّّقاف نقيب ال َّسَََّّّادة بِ َم َّكة َعن ال َّسَََّّّ ِّيد علوي بِ ْن صَََّّّافي الْج ْفرِي الْمدنِي َعن ال َّسََََّّّّ ِّيد َم ْن ُصََََّّّّور بِ ْن ُيو ُسََََّّّّي البديري الْمدنِي َعن ال َّسََََََّّّّّّ ِّيد ُم َح َّمد مرتضََََََّّّّّّى بِ ْن الس ِّيد اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد َّ ُم َح َّمد الزبي ِد ّي َعن الصفي شََََََّّّّّّرِيي َم ْق ُبول اما هدل َعن ال َّسََََََّّّّّّ ِّيد الْ َو ِج يه َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن اسَََّّّل بِ ْن الْ َع ِفيي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن الْمسَََّّّند الْجمال ال َّس َََّّّ ِّيد ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اْبِي بكر الش َََّّّلي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن اْبِيه ال َّسَََّّّ ِّيد ِاما َماح اْبِي بكر الشَََّّّلي َعن ال َّسَََّّّ ِّيد الْ َف ِق يه عمر بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ِحي الْ َب ْصََََََّّّّّّ ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن ال َّس ََّّ ِّيد ال َعلَّا َمة الْمس ََّّند اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اْ ْحمد َعنقاء الْ َي َمانِ ّي َعن اْبِيه ِاما َماح ال َعلَّا َمة الشريي جمال الدّين ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اْ ْحمد َعنقاء بِ َس َّ َم ِاع ِه من لف اْبِيه ال َّس ََّّ ِّيد ش َّ ََّااأ الدّين اْبِي َف ْتحة اْ ْحمد بِ ْن رميثة بِ ْن لي الْ ُح َس َّ ْي ِني الماناوي الموسََّّوي َعن اْبِيه َقا َل اْنا ّ َع ِ لي المرتضى ّ َوالدي ال َّس ِّيد نور الدّين اْ ُبو الْ ُح َس ْين َع بِ ْن َعنقاء الموسََّّوي اْنا َوالِدي ال َّس َّ ِّيد زين الدّين اْ ُبو مربع ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َعنقاء َح ْم َزة الموسََََََّّّّّّوي اْنا َوالِدي ال َّس َََّّّ ِّيد زين الدّين اْ ُبو َق َتا َدة َح ْم َزة ال يار بِ ْن م ا َعن الموسَّوي اْنا َوالِدي ال َّسَّ ِّيد الْمجد اْ ُبو َعنقاء ُمو َسى THE PURE FAMILY Zayn al-Dīn Abū Qatadah Hamza al-Tayyar bin Mutai’ al-Musawi; We were informed by my father Sayyid al-Majd Abū Anqa’ Musā bin Matain Ibn Assaf al-Hussaini al-Mahannawi; We were informed by my father Sayyid Abū Thaqbah Assaf Fakhr al-Dīn bin Muḥammad al-Mahannawi who said; We were informed by my father Sayyid Abū Harraj Baha al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Khalis bin Abī Jazan Assaf Sayf al-Dīn bin Muhanna bin Dāwūd al-Hussaini [Another Chain] It was also narrated by Sayyid Imām Abū Bakr al-Shilli also from the two Sayyids Zayn al-Abidin and ʿAli the sons of Muhi al-Dīn Abd al-Qāḍīr bin Muḥammad bin Yaḥyā al-Ṭabarī; from the father of both of them; from his grandfather Sayyid Yaḥyā bin Mukarram bin Muhib al-Dīn al-Akhir bin Muḥammad Muhib al-Dīn al-Awsat bin Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad bin Radi al-Dīn al-Kabir; from his grandfather Sayyid Muhib Aḥmad; from his father Sayyid al-Shihāb al-Akhir; from his father’s uncle Sayyid Abī al-Yaman Muḥammad bin Aḥmad bin Ibrahīm; from his father Imām Radi al-Dīn al-Kabir Ibrahīm bin Muḥammad bin Ibrahīm bin Abī Bakr bin Muḥammad bin Ibrahīm bi Abī Bakr bin ʿAli bin Faris alHussaini al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī; We were informed by the trustworthy and truthful Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Hurma al-Makkī who said; We were informed by the Sayyid and nobleman, the remnant of the Sayyid’s of Halab, Fakhr al-Dīn Abū Jafar Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Jafar al-Hussaini; We were informed by Siraj Muḥammad bin ʿAli bin Yasir al-Ansari by means of his narrating as well as Baha al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Khalis; from the Vurtuous Sayyid and remnants of the Sayyid’s of Balkh Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan bin ʿAli bin al-Ḥasan bin Ubaydullah bin Muḥammad bin Ubaydullah bin ʿAli bin alḤasan bin al-Hussain bin Jafar al-Hujjah bin Ubaydullah al-Araj Ibn al-Hussain al-Asghar 43 بِ ْن م ا َعن ابِ ْن عسََََََّّّّّّاف الْ ُح َسََََََّّّّّّ ْي ِني الماناوي اْنا الس ِّيد اْ ُبو ثقبة عساف َفخر الدّين بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد َّ َوالِدي الس ِّيد اْ ُبو هرا بِ ِه اء الدّين َّ الماناوي َقا َل اْنا َوالِدي ُم َح َّمد الْ َخالِص بِ ْن اْبِي جازان عساف سيي الدّين بِ ْن مانا بِ ْن َد ُاود الْ ُح َس ْي ِني (ح) َو َر َوا ُه ال َّس ََّّ ِّيد ِاما َماح اْ ُبو بكر الش ََّّلي اْ ْيض ََّّا َعن ال َّسََّّ ِّيدين زين العابدين َوعلي ابِ ْني محيي الدّين َع ْب ُد الْ قَ ا ِدر بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن يحيى ال َّ َب ِر ّي َعن اْبِي ِا َما َعن جده ال َّسَّ ِّيد يحيى بِ ْن مكرح بِ ْن محب الدّين ا ْماْخير بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد َر ِضََََََّّّّّّي الدّين ا ْماْخير بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد محب الدّين ا ْما ْ ْو َس ََّّط بِ ْن ش َّ ََّااأ الدّين اْ ْحمد بِ ْن َر ِض ََّّي الدّين الْ َكبِير َعن جده ال َّس ََّّ ِّيد محب اْ ْحمد َعن اْبِيه شااأ ا ْماْخير َعن َع اْبِيه ال َّس ِّيد اْبِي الْيمن َ ال َّس ِّيد ال ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي َعن اْبِيه ِاما َماح َر ِض َََََّّّّّي الَّدّين الْ َكبِير اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن ُم َح َّمَّد بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن اْبِي بكر بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن اْبِي بكر بِ ْن َعل ّي بِ ْن َفارأ الْ ُح َسَََّّّ ْي ِني ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي اْنا الثِّقَة الصَََّّّدوق اْ ُبو الْقَا ِس َََّّّ َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن اْبِي حرمي الْ َم ِّك ّي َقا َل السادة بحلب َفخر الدّين اْ ُبو َّ الس ِّيد الشريي َب ِق َّية َّ اْنا َج ْع َفر اْ ْحمََّّد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمَّد بِ ْن َج ْعفَر الْ ُح َسََََََّّّّّّ ْي ِني اْنََّّا لي بِ ْن َياسََّّر ا ْمانْ َص َّارِ ّي بروايته ّ السََّّرا ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ِ الس ِّيد الْف َاض َّ ُه َو وبِ ِه اء الدّين ُم َح َّمد الْ َخالِص َعن لي بِ ْن ّ َب ِق َّية ال َّس َََّّّادة ببلخ اْبِي ُم َح َّمد الْحس َََّّّن بِ ْن َع الْحسََََََّّّّّّن بِ ْن عبيد اللّه بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن عبيد اللّه بِ ْن حجة بِ ْن َّ ْلي بِ ْن الْحس ََّّن بِ ْن الْ ُح َس ََّّ ْين بِ ْن َج ْعفَر ال ّ َع عبيد اللّه ا ْما ْ ْع َر ابِ ْن الْ ُح َس ْين ا ْما ْ ْصغَر ابِ ْن َعل ّي زين لي رح اللّه َوجاه ّ العابدين بِ ْن الْ ُح َس ْين السبط بِ ْن َع َقا َل ا ْمانْ َص َّارِ ّي َس َّ َماعا من لَفظه َقا َل َحدث ِني َوالِدي لي بِ ْن اْبِي َطالب الْحسن ّ اْ ُبو الْحسن َع َقا َل ثنى َو ِالدي اْ ُبو َطالب الْحسََََََّّّّّّن ال َّن ِق يب َقا َل ِ لي عبيََّّد الل َّّه بِ ْن ُم َح َّمَّد ثنى ّ َحَّدث ِني َوالَّدي اْ ُبو َع َوالِدي اْ ُبو الْحسن ُم َح َّمد ال َّزا ِهد َقا َل َحدث ِني َوالِدي THE PURE FAMILY Ibn ʿAli Zayn al-Abidin bin al-Hussain al-Sibt bin ʿAli (Allah ennoble his countenance); AlAnsari said having heard directly; He said: My father Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAli bin Abī Talib al-Ḥasan narrated to me, he said; My Father Abū Talib Al-Ḥasan al-Naqib narrated to me, he said; My father Abū ʿAli Ubaydullah bin Muḥammad narrated to me; My father Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad al-Zahid narrated to me, he said; My father Abū ʿAli Ubaydullah bin ʿAli ََََََّّّّّّلي ثنى َوالِدي اْ ُبو الْقَا ِس ّ لي عبيد اللّه بِ ْن َع ّ اْ ُبو َع لي ثنى َوا ِلدي اْ ُبو ُم َح َّمد الْحسََََََّّّّّّن ثنى َوا ِلدي ّ َع الْ ُح َسََََََّّّّّّ ْين َو ُه َو اول من دخ َبلخ من َه ِذه ال َّائِفَة ثنى َوالَِّدي َج ْعفَر الملقََّّب بَِّالْح َّجَّ ِة ثنى اْبِي عبيََّّد اللّه ُه َو ا ْما ْ ْع َر ثنى اْبِي الْ ُح َس َََّّّ ْين ُه َو ا ْما ْ ْص َََّّّغَر ثنى لي ثنى اْبِي الْ ُح َسََََََّّّّّّ ْين َي َعني ّ اْبِي زين العََّّابََّّدين َع :لي بِ ْن اْبِي َطالب َقا َل ّ السبط ثنى اْبِي َع narrated to me; My father Abū al-Qāsim narrated to me; May father Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan narrated to me; My father Al-Ḥasan and he is the first of those from this this group to enter Balkh narrated to me; My father Jafar known as AlHijjah narrated me; My father Ubaydullah, who is al-Araj narrated to me; My father al-Hussain who is Al-Asghar narrated to me; My father Zayn al-Abidin ʿAli narrated to me; My father alHussain meaning Al-Sibt narrated to me; My father ʿAli bin Abī Abī Talib narrated to me, he said; ِ َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ ُم ْس ِل ُ ِم ْرا ُة الْ ُم ْس ِل َقا َل َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل لَ ْي َ الْخَ َب ُر َال ُم َعا َي َن ِة 3. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) 1. The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him said, “A Muslim is a mirror of a fellow and give him peace) said, Muslim” “News of a matter is not like actually َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ال ُم ْس َتشَ ا ُر ُم ْؤ َت َمن witnessing it.” 4. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) َوبِ ِا َذا ا ْم ِا ْس َناد َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ َح ْر ُأ خُ ْد َعة said, “The one whose advice is being sought is being entrusted” 2. And with this chain of narration; َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الدَّا ُّل َع َلى الْخَ ْي ِر َ َفا ِع ِل ِه He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “War is deception” 5. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “The one who guides towards goodness 44 THE PURE FAMILY is like the one who performs it” َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل لَ ْي َ ِم َّنا َم ْن غَشَّ َنا َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ْاس َت ِع ْي ُنوا َع َلى الْ َح َوائِ ِج بِالْ ِك ْت َم ِان 12. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “He who deceives us is not from us” 6. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َما َق َّ َو َ َفى خَ ْير ِم َّما َثُ َر َواْلْ َاى said, “Seek help with your needs by hiding them” 13. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل اتَّ ُقوا ال َّنا َر َولَ ْو بِ ِش ِّق َت ْم َر ٍة said, “That which is little and suffices is better than that which is copious but leads to forgetfulness” 7. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “Avoid the hellfire even if it be by َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ال َّر ِاج ُع ِفي ِه َب ِت ِه َال َّر ِاج ِع ِفي َق ْي ِئ ِه means of half a date” َِوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ال ُّدنْ َيا ِس ْج ُن الْ ُم ْؤ ِمن َو َج َّن ُة ا ْل َكا ِف ِر 14. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “The one who takes back a gift is like one who swallows his own vomit” 8. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “The world is the prison of the believer َِاء ُم َو َّ بِالْ َم ْن ِ ق ُ َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ َبل and paradise of the disbeliever” 15. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ َح َي ُاء خَ ْير ُلُّ ُه said, “Affliction is a result of excessive speech” 9. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “Modesty is all good” اأ َاْ ْس َن ِان ال ُمشْ ِط ُ َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ال َّن َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ِع َد ُة الْ ُم ْؤ ِمنِ َاْخْ ٍذ ي ِّ بِالْ َك 16. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “People are like the teeth of a comb” 10. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “A believer’s promise is like his taking ِ َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ ِغ َني َغ ِني ال َّن ْف the hand” 17. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “True wealth is the richness of the heart” َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َما َي ِح ُّ لِ ُمؤْمنٍ اْ ْن َي ْا ُج َر ْاخَ ا ُه َف ْو َق َثلَا َث ِة ْا َّيا ٍح 11. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “It is not permitted for a believer to boycott his brother for more than three days” 45 THE PURE FAMILY َ الس ِعي ُد َم ْن ُو ِع َّ َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل بِ َغ ْي ِر ِه َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ َي ُد ا ْل ُع ْل َيا خَ ْير ِم َن الس ْف َلى ُّ الْ َيد 18. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) 24. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “The felicitous one is one who takes said, “The raised hand is better than the heed from others” lowered hand” َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل اِ َّن ِم َن الشِّ ْع ِر لَ ِح ْك َمة ًَواِ َّن ِم َن الْ َب َي ِان لَ ِس ْحرا َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َما يشْ ُك ُر اللّه َم ْن َما اأ َ َيشْ ُك ُر ال َّن 19. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) 25. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “Indeed there is wisdom in poetry, and said, “The one who has not thanked the in some speech has a magical effect” people has not thanked Allah” ِ َُوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َع ْف ُو ال ُمل وك اْ ْب َقى لِ ْل ُم ْل ِك َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ُح ُّبكَ الشَّ ْي َء ُي ْع ِمي ُّ َو ُي ِص 20. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) 26. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “The forgiveness of the Rulers results in said, “Your love for a thing makes you blind the continuing of the state” and deaf” َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ َم ْر ُء َم َع َم ْن اْ َح َّب وأ َع َلى ُ َُوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ُج ِب َل ِت ا ْل ُقل ض َم ْن اْ َس َاء اِلَ ْي َاا ِ ُح ِّب َم ْن ا ْح َس َن اِلَ ْي َاا َو ُب ْغ 21. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “A person will be with the one whom he 27. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) loves” said, “Hearts are naturally inclined to those whom are kind to them, and disliking whom ف َ َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َما َه َلكَ ا ْم ُرؤ َع َر َق ْد َر ُه are unkind to them” َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل التَّائِ ُب ِم َن ال َّذ ْن ِب َ َم ْن َما َذ ْن َب لَ ُه 22. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “A person who knows his own worth is not destroyed” 28. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “The one repenting from a sin is like the ش َولِ ْل َعا ِه ِر ِ َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ َولَ ُد لِ ْل ِف َرا ال َح ْج ُر one with no sin” 23. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “The child is for the woman and the stone is for the adulterer” 46 THE PURE FAMILY َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الشَّ ا ِه ُد َي َرى َما َما َيرا ُه الْغَائِ ُب 35. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “The best of matters is where moderation is observed” 29. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “The one witnessing sees that which the َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل اللا بارك مامتي في بكورها يوح الخمي person absent does not” َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل اِ َذا َج َاء ُ ْ َ ِري ُ َق ْو ٍح َفاْ ْ ِر ُمو ُه 36. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “O Allah, bless my ummah in their journey on Thursday morning” 30. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said. “If a nobleman of a people comes to َا َد الْ َف ْق ُر اْ ْن َي ُكو َن you, then honour him” ِ َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ َي ِمي ُن ا ْلف َاج َر ُة َت َذ ُر ال ِّد َيا َر َبلَا ِق َع َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ُ ْفر ًا 37. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “It may be that poverty leads to disbelief” 31. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “A false oath brings destruction to الس َف ُر ِق ْ َعة ِم َن َّ َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ِ الْ َع َذ اأ countries” َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َم ْن قُ ِت َ ُدو َن َمالِ ِه َف ُا َو شَ ِايد 38. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “Travel is a form of punishment” 32. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ال َم َجالِ ُ بِاما ْ َمانَ ِة said, “A person who is killed for his wealth is a martyr” 39. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “Gatherings are a trust” َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ا ْما ْ ْع َما ُل بِال ِّن َّي ِة َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل خَ ْي ُر ال َّزا ِد التَّ ْق َوى 33. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “Actions are by intention” 40. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “The best of provisions is God ْ َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َس ِّي ُد الْ َق ْو ِح خَ ا ِد ُم ُا consciousness” 34. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) َقا َل ابِ ْن ال ّيب َف َا ِذ ِه اْ ْر َب ُعو َن َح ِديثا مسلسلا بِ ِاذا الس َند انْتاى َّ said, “The master of a people is he who serves them” Ibn al-Tayyib said, “These are 40 Musalsal َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل خَ ْي ُر ا ْما ُ ُمو ِر ا ْو َس ُ َاا hadith with this chain.” 47 THE PURE FAMILY REFERENCING FOR THE FORTY HADITH Taken from Shaykh ʿĀshiq Ilāhī al-Barnī’s Referencing from Al-Fadl al-Mubin 1. Imām Aḥmad in his Musnad (1/271) as 15. It was referenced by Al-Sakhawi in part of a longer hadith. Al-Sakhawi in Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah to those authors Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah said (p.352) that who cited it and said, “It was this hadith was graded Ṣaḥīḥ by Ibn mentioned by Ibn al-Jawzī in the the Hibban, al-Ḥākim and others. collection of fabricated 2. Bukhārī and Muslim narrations…however this is not an 3. Al-Tirmidhī and Abū Dāwūd with accurate verdict based on that which we have mentioned.” some additional wording. 16. A source could not be located. 4. Al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Majah and the author of Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah (1019) 17. Al-Bukhārī referenced it to the Musnad of Imām 18. Muslim Aḥmad. 19. Al-Bukhārī al- 20. It was mentioned by Al-Suyuti in Jami’ Mundhiri, see Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah al-Saghir and referenced it to Al-Rafi’i (478) in Tarikh Qazwin and indicated to it 5. Al-Askari, Ibn Jamiee and 6. Al-Tabarānī in his three Mu’jam being Ḥasan. 21. Al-Sakhawi in Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah collections with a similar wording as mentioned in Majma’ al-Zawaid (1011) referenced it to Bukhārī and Muslim. Al-Tirmidhī narrated it with (8/195). some additional wording. 7. Al-Bukhārī 8. Muslim and Abū Hurayrah 22. A source could not be located. 9. Muslim 23. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim 10. Al-Suyuti in Jami al-Saghir referenced 24. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim 25. Al-Tirmidhī it to Al-Daylami in Musnad al-Firdaws and Aḥmad as mentioned in Al-Mishkat (p.461) 11. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim with a similar 26. Abū Dāwūd, Aḥmad (6/450) narrates wording it with a similar wording. 12. Muslim 13. Abū Nuʿaym in Al-Hilyah (1/226) and 27. Al-Sakhawi referenced it in Maqāṣid Al-Haythami in Majma’ al-Zawaid al-Ḥasanah (365) to Abū Nuʿaym in (2/122) referenced it to Aḥmad and Al-Hilyah, Abū al-Shaykh, Ibn Hibban said, “Its narrators are those of the in Rawda al-Uqala, Al-Khatib in Tarikh Ṣaḥīḥ.” Baghdād. It was also cited by Al-Suyuti 14. A source could not be found for this in Jami al-Saghir, Al-Munawi (3/345) exact wording, however there is mentioned some sever criticism of one something similar to it in Bukhārī and of the narrators. Muslim. 48 THE PURE FAMILY Musnad, al-Ḥākim and al-Bayhaqi in 28. Ibn Majah, it was related by AlTabarānī with some Al-Shuab. additional wording as in Majma’ al-Zawaid 35. Al-Sakawi (455) referenced it to Ibn al-Samani in Dhayl Tarikh Baghdād (10/200). 29. Aḥmad, Al-Diya’ in Al-Mukhtarah, with unknown narrators, Ibn Jarir in Abū Nuʿaym in Al-Hilyah as in Tafsir, Al-Bayhaqi and Al-Daylami Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah (584) without a chain. 30. It was mentioned by Al-Ghazali in Al- 36. Abū Dāwūd, Al-Tirmidhī who graded Ihyā’ (1/229), Al-Iraqi referenced it to it Ḥasan, al-Nasai, Ibn Majah, Ibn Ibn Majah, Abū Dāwūd in Al-Marasil Hibban in his Ṣaḥīḥ, as mentioned by and al-Ḥākim. Al-Targhib (2/529). 37. The author of Al-Mishkat referenced it 31. Al-Mundhiri in Al-Targhib (2/622) indicating it is weak and referenced it to Al-Bayhaqi in Shuab al-Iman with to Al-Bayhaqi. additional wording. It was related by 32. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim Abū Nuʿaym in Al-Hilyah as in Jami’ 33. Al-Bukhārī al-Saghir. 34. Al-Sakhawi in Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah 38. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim (579) referenced it to Abū ʿAbd al- 39. Abū Dāwūd Raḥmān al-Sulami in Adab al-Suhba 40. Abū al-Shaykh, Ibn Hibban and Al- with some weakness in the chain. It Daylami as mentioned in Jami al- was also related by Al-Daylami in his Saghir and its commentary Fayd alQāḍīr (3/373) 49 LICENSE TO TRANSMIT إجازة All praise is due to Allah the Lord of the Worlds, blessings and peace be upon our Master Muḥammad and upon his family and all of his companions. To proceed: The distinguished student: الح مد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام علي سيدنا مُح ََّمد : وبعد، وعلي آله وصحبِه ِ أجمعين ة/ة النجيب/حضرت عندي الطالب/فقد حضر heard from me the Hadith of Mercy and a ………………………………………………… number of pattern chained narrations which I narrate along with their conditions from my سمعت مني حديث الرحمة وجملة صالحة/وبعدما سمع master, Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī َّ من المسلسلات التي رويتها بشروطها ع َن سيدي and Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Bakr al- الشي ْخ Mullā. َّ مُح ََّمد ياسين الفاداني و ،الشي ْخ ع َبْد ُ الرحمن ب ِنْ أَ ب ِي بكر الملا He/she has requested me to grant him/her a license to transmit (Ijāzah) just as my notable ها اجازة عامةكما أجازني/طلبت مني ان أجيزه/قد طلب teachers granted me a license to transmit, even though I am not qualified to do so. However ول كن،مشائخي الاعلام وأن كنت لست أهلا لذالك acquiescing to his/her request I say seeking help ها فأقول مستعينا بالله تعالي قد أجزت/نزولا لرغبته through Allah Most High: I have granted a license to transmit to this brother/sister, a person of laudable effort, all that I narrate from the transmitted and rational sciences, just as I was granted a license to do so by my teachers, amongst them being: My father and Master Shaykh Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā, my uncle Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā, Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī, Shaykh Ḥasan al-Mashāṭ, Shaykh ʿAbdullāh bin Said al-Lahji, Shaykh IsmāʿīlalZayn, Shaykh Aḥmad Jābir Jibrān and others. ت ذي السعي المشكور بكل ما تصح لي روايته/الأخ :من منقول ومعقول كما أجازني بذالك شيوخي منهم َّ الشي ْخ مُح ََّمد ب ِنْ أَ بِي بكر الملا والعم َّ سيدي الوالد الشي ْخ َّ ع َبْد ُ الرحمن ب ِنْ أَ بِي بكر الملا و الشي ْخ مُح ََّمد ياسين الفاداني َّ الشي ْخ حسن المشاط و َّ و الشي ْخ ع َبْد ُالله ب ِنْ سعيد اللحجي َّ الشي ْخ اسماعيل الزين و َّ و .الشي ْخ أحمد جابر جبران وغيرهم ها بتقوي الله عزوجل في السر والعلن/وأوصيه I advise him/her to have taqwa of Allah the Mighty and Majestic privately and publically. والأبتعاد ع َن التبديع والتكفير والرجوع الي ال كتب Likewise to distance themselves from labelling others as innovators or declaring them as تنساني ووالدي وشيوخي من/ وأن لا ينساني.الأصيلة disbelievers, rather they should refer back in ها في السر والعلن في الأوقات الروابح/صالح دعواته matters to the reference works. I request him/her to not forget me, my parents and teachers in his/her sincere prayers, both privately and publically at blessed times. Blessings and peace be upon our Master Muḥammad and upon his family and all of his companions. Signature & Date: 50 وصلي الله علي سيدنا مُح ََّمد وعلي آله وصحبِه ِ أجمعين
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