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al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara

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By Muhibb al-Din al-Tabari, shaykh of the haram

الرياض النضرة في مناقب العشرة

A book on the virtues of the ten Companions promised Paradise by Muhibb al-Din al-Tabari of Mecca, a Shafi'i (d. 694 AH). It gathers hadiths and reports without their chains but referred to their sources, drawn from hundreds of books and hadith fascicles, in two sections: the virtues of groups, in five chapters, and the virtues of individuals, in ten chapters, one for each of the ten.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Arabia

Ethics and character

Summary

Al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara ("The Fresh Gardens on the Virtues of the Ten") is a book by Muhibb al-Din Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Abdullah al-Tabari of Mecca, a Shafi'i (d. 694 AH), on the virtues of the ten Companions promised Paradise. 1 2 The editor of the Dar al-Gharb edition notes that its attribution is secure, since his biographers list it, and that Ibn Taghri Birdi and Taqi al-Din al-Fasi describe it as two volumes. 3

Aim and method

In his preface the author says he gathered what was reported on the virtues of the ten from many books "in abridged form and with the chains removed" so that it would be easy to use, referring each hadith to the book that records it, and that he ordered the material from general to particular: what covers the ten and others, then what concerns the ten, then fewer than the ten, then what is specific to the four caliphs, then to more than one, then the merits of each. 4 He then lists the works he drew on, most of which he says he holds by transmission: musnads and sunan such as Ahmad's Musnad and the Sunan of Abu Dawud and al-Daraqutni; books of virtues such as Ahmad's Manaqib Ali and Khaythama's Fada'il al-Sahaba; dictionaries of Companions; history, tafsir and lexicography; and more than a hundred hadith fascicles such as the Khil'iyyat, Thaqafiyyat, Ghaylaniyyat, Silafiyyat and the collections of forty. 4 5 6 7

The editor describes his method: he gives the hadiths without chains but with their sources, explains rare words, sets out the legal content and discusses and weighs the evidence where needed. 8 One example of his weighing reports is that he preferred the historians' figure for the length of the four caliphates — twenty-nine years, five months and some days — over the hadith of Safina that gives Ali's caliphate as six years. 9 He cites the reports of Abu Bakr leading the prayer during the Prophet ﷺ's illness as evidence of his caliphate. 10

Structure

  • Section 1: The virtues of groups (p. 15), in five chapters: reports covering the ten and others, such as the merit of the people of Badr and al-Hudaybiya and the prohibition of delving into their disputes (p. 17); reports on the ten, their genealogies and a description of each (p. 31); reports on fewer than the ten (p. 37); reports specific to the four caliphs (p. 47); reports specific to Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman (p. 61). 11 12 13 14
  • Section 2: The virtues of individuals (p. 71), in ten chapters: Abu Bakr in fifteen subsections (p. 73), Umar (p. 271), Uthman (p. 446), Ali (p. 544), Talha (p. 686), al-Zubayr (p. 712), Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf (p. 742), Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (p. 760), Sa'id ibn Zayd (p. 778) and Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah (p. 786). 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Standing and criticism

The editor of the Dar al-Gharb edition considers it one of the most important hadith works on the virtues of the ten and among the richest in material, preserving rare hadiths from books and fascicles whose originals are lost or still in manuscript. 26 On the other side he quotes Abu Hayyan's remark that al-Muhibb included in some of his hadith books weak and fabricated reports on the merits of deeds and of the Companions without warning and without the chains by which their status could be known, saying only "recorded by so-and-so". 27 The editor himself notes slips of attribution, such as ascribing to both al-Bukhari and Muslim a hadith only one of them recorded. 28

Editions

The editor records that the book was printed in four parts, edited by Muhammad Mustafa Abu al-'Ula, by Maktabat al-Jundi in Cairo in 1970, and that Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya in Beirut reissued it in two volumes in 1405 AH, dropping the editor's introduction and the book's conclusion, with many misprints. 29 The two copies used here are the complete Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya edition of 1405/1984 30 and the Dar al-Gharb al-Islami edition of 1996 of the section on Abu Bakr, with a long study of the author and the book. 31 32

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Authored by
Muhibb al-Din al-Tabari, shaykh of the haram
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The ten promised Paradise

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Al-Mubashsharun bil-Janna (Those Given Glad Tidings of Paradise)· Mecca· Yemen· The ten promised Paradise· Muhibb al-Din al-Tabari, shaykh of the haram· Manners of the Qur'an bearer· Justice and grace (adl wal-fadl)· The leader's eight roles and training in general leadership

Sources

  1. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.1
  2. al-Riyad al-Nadira: the virtues of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq — al-Muhibb al-Tabari, study and critical edition (Dar al-Gharb al-Islami, Beirut, 1st ed. 1996) , p.65
  3. al-Riyad al-Nadira: the virtues of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq — al-Muhibb al-Tabari, study and critical edition (Dar al-Gharb al-Islami, Beirut, 1st ed. 1996) , p.66
  4. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.7
  5. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.8
  6. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.9
  7. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.10
  8. al-Riyad al-Nadira: the virtues of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq — al-Muhibb al-Tabari, study and critical edition (Dar al-Gharb al-Islami, Beirut, 1st ed. 1996) , p.67
  9. al-Riyad al-Nadira: the virtues of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq — al-Muhibb al-Tabari, study and critical edition (Dar al-Gharb al-Islami, Beirut, 1st ed. 1996) , p.86
  10. al-Riyad al-Nadira: the virtues of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq — al-Muhibb al-Tabari, study and critical edition (Dar al-Gharb al-Islami, Beirut, 1st ed. 1996) , p.89
  11. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.15
  12. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.427
  13. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.428
  14. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.429
  15. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.71
  16. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.73
  17. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.271
  18. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.446
  19. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.544
  20. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.686
  21. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.712
  22. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.742
  23. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.760
  24. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.778
  25. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.786
  26. al-Riyad al-Nadira: the virtues of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq — al-Muhibb al-Tabari, study and critical edition (Dar al-Gharb al-Islami, Beirut, 1st ed. 1996) , p.68
  27. al-Riyad al-Nadira: the virtues of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq — al-Muhibb al-Tabari, study and critical edition (Dar al-Gharb al-Islami, Beirut, 1st ed. 1996) , p.51
  28. al-Riyad al-Nadira: the virtues of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq — al-Muhibb al-Tabari, study and critical edition (Dar al-Gharb al-Islami, Beirut, 1st ed. 1996) , p.90
  29. al-Riyad al-Nadira: the virtues of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq — al-Muhibb al-Tabari, study and critical edition (Dar al-Gharb al-Islami, Beirut, 1st ed. 1996) , p.55
  30. al-Riyad al-Nadira fi Manaqib al-'Ashara — al-Muhibb al-Tabari (Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st ed. 1405/1984) , p.2
  31. al-Riyad al-Nadira: the virtues of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq — al-Muhibb al-Tabari, study and critical edition (Dar al-Gharb al-Islami, Beirut, 1st ed. 1996) , p.4
  32. al-Riyad al-Nadira: the virtues of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq — al-Muhibb al-Tabari, study and critical edition (Dar al-Gharb al-Islami, Beirut, 1st ed. 1996) , p.9
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