Qatf al-Azhar - Harvesting Scattered Followers: A Collection of Mass-Transmitted Hadiths
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Translator
Nasir Abdussalam
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About The Book
Qatf al-Azhar is a very rare type of hadith collection dedicated to an even rarer type of hadith — the mass-transmitted (mutawatir) hadith — in which a piece of information is corroborated by a multitude of eyewitnesses whose relative abundance precludes a conspiracy to lie; it is then transmitted continuously by similar multitudes from the original witnesses to the present.
One of the salient qualities of Islam is its concern with certainty in regards to establishing the fundamentals of the religion. The mass-transmitted report is a means of acquiring certainty and as such deserves our profound attention in an age in which the authenticity of the whole hadith corpus has come under attack.
The text was abridged by its author, Imam Suyuti, specifically to suit the needs of the lay reader and this English translation incorporates the text of all 113 hadiths listed by the Imam, along with helpful explanatory notes and a layout that visually reinforces the authoritativeness of each mass-transmitted report.
‘The mutawātir report is that which reaches you from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ via a transmission containing no doubt, such that it is as if you hear it from an eyewitness. This is due to its great number of narrators whose collusion cannot be countenanced, owing to their uprightness and clearly different locations.’ Imam Bazdawī
Imam Suyuti (d. 911/1505), the great 10th century Egyptian polymath, was one of the most prolific writers of the Middle Ages, penning over 500 works on a wide range of subjects, a number of which became world famous during his lifetime. These include Tafsīr al-Jalālayn and Itqān fī ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān (Qur’anic sciences), Tārīkh al-Khulafāʾ (history), Al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr and Al-Jāmiʿ aṣ-Ṣaghīr (hadith), Aṭ-Ṭibb an-Nabawī (Prophetic medicine) and Muẓhir fī ʿUlūm al-Lughah (philology).
The first and last of these in particular are exemplars of his genius as a compiler and it is precisely his talents of selection and abridgment which make the current work so beneficial and accessible for lay readers both in his time and ours.
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About the author
Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti: One of the most prolific scholars in Islamic history, Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (849-911 AH / 1445-1505 CE), whose full name was Abu al-Fadl ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr al-Khudayri al-Suyuti, was born and raised in Cairo. Orphaned in childhood, he memorized the entire Qurʾan by the age of eight and went on to study under many of the leading teachers of Mamluk Egypt, gathering ijazas from scholars across the Muslim world. He was a Shafiʿi in law and Ashʿari in creed, and at one point regarded himself as the mujaddid, the renewer, of his age. Biographers credit him with close to six hundred works, from brief epistles to large reference compilations, spanning tafsir, hadith, fiqh, Arabic grammar and rhetoric, history, and more. He is best remembered as co-author of Tafsir al-Jalalayn, completing the concise verse-by-verse Qurʾanic commentary begun by Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli, and for al-Itqan fi ʿUlum al-Qurʾan, a landmark survey of the Qurʾanic sciences. Among his other enduring works are al-Jami al-Saghir, a much-used collection of Prophetic hadith, Tadrib al-Rawi on hadith methodology, Tarikh al-Khulafaʾ on the caliphs, and Husn al-Muhadara on the history of Egypt. In his forties he withdrew from teaching and public life, secluding himself on Rawda Island on the Nile to write, where he remained until his death in Cairo in 911 AH.
About the translator
Nasir Abdussalam: Nasir Abdussalam hafidhahullah is an American Muslim scholar, imam, and translator. Born in Chesterfield, Missouri, and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, he embraced Islam in 2003 while enrolled at Georgia State University, where he was majoring in English with a concentration in rhetoric and composition. Drawn to traditional scholarship, he subsequently spent more than a decade in Jordan pursuing intensive Islamic education. He earned a bachelor's degree in Islamic law and legal theory from the World Islamic Sciences and Education University, while simultaneously engaging in traditional studies of theology (aqida), hadith, Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir), and Shafi'i jurisprudence. Upon returning to the United States, he took up the role of imam at the Islamic Association of West Virginia and founded Saladin Islamic Seminary. He has also taught privately and for Islamic American University. His translation output focuses on foundational theological and hadith sciences texts: he has translated Imam al-Ghazali's The Forty Principles of the Religion and The Foundations of Belief, The Creed of Imam Bayhaqi, Qatf al-Azhar (a collection of mass-transmitted reports), and Ibn Kathir's Ikhtisar 'Ulum al-Hadith, all published by Turath Publishing.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781906949532
Publisher
Turath Publishing
Author
Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti
Pages
139
Translator
Nasir Abdussalam
Year Published
2020
Size
W-5.3 in | H-7.8 in | D-
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