Jam' al-Wasa'il fi Sharh al-Shama'il

Jam' al-Wasa'il fi Sharh al-Shama'il is Mulla Ali al-Qari's commentary on al-Tirmidhi's al-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyya. For each chapter it gives the hadith and then explains its words and meanings. ¹

The source is an academic thesis, "Jam' al-Wasa'il fi Sharh al-Shama'il by Mulla Ali al-Qari: study and edition", by Lu'lu'a bint Abd al-Karim ibn Ibrahim al-Qwayfili. It has an introduction, two parts and a conclusion. The first part, the study, has two chapters: one on the author's age and life, and one describing the manuscript. The second chapter covers the book's name, whether it is correctly attributed to the author, its subject, method, sources, strengths and weaknesses, a comparison with Ibn Hajar al-Haytami's Ashraf al-Wasa'il, and the copies. The second part is the edited text. ²

Among the findings the author reports is that the commentary's author belongs to the eleventh century AH, and that his method follows the hadith scholars' rules in handling the text. ²

The edited text runs from the chapter on the Prophet's dyeing of his hair to the chapter on his reclining, as the contents list gives. ²

The author chose the book because the hadiths of the Shama'il have important benefits for religion. She also says that the author enriched the Islamic library with many works, and that despite several printed editions the book has not had the scholarly editing and annotation it deserves. ²

The thesis scan 1_20200719_2031 is byte-identical to the scan 1_20200719_2318. A third scan, azm101010, has no OCR and has not been read. ¹

• The thesis is an academic work and the edition and notes are the author's. The commentary is al-Qari's.
• The date on the title page is read from reversed digits in the scan as 1428 AH / 2007 CE. Check it against the cover before relying on it.
• Compare Ashraf al-Wasa'il by Ibn Hajar al-Haytami, which the thesis compares with this book.
• Related: Ashraf al-Wasa'il and Ali al-Qari.