Appendix L: Sources

APPENDIX L

This translation of Bahār e Sharīát is based on the latest,1288 fully cross-referenced edition produced by Majlis al-Madīnah al-Ílmiyyah, and published by Maktabah al-Madīnah (Dáwat e Islāmī) in three large volumes: Volume One (parts 1-6): 25^th Jumādā II, 1429/30^th June 2008. Volume Two (parts 7-13): 23^rd Ramađān, 1430/14^th September, 2009. Volume Three: (parts 14-20): 25^th Şafar, 1432/30^th January, 2011.

I have also used other editions to cross-verify certain passages, including a 1336 edition printed under the supervision of the author himself.

The biographical note on Mawlānā Amjad Álī is based on: Biographical note by Mawlānā Ábd al-Ĥakīm Sharaf Qādirī An article on Bahār e Sharīát by Prof. Dr. Ghulām Yaĥyā Anjum The above articles were published in the preface of the 1996 edition of Bahār e Sharīát, published in two volumes by Shabbir Brothers, Lahore.

The special issue, Şadrush Sharīáh Number of the monthly Ashrafiyyah of Jumādā al-Ūlā 1416 AH (October 1995).

This magazine was published under the auspices of the Ashrafiyyah university in Mubarakpur, U.P., India. Imām Aĥmad Raza Number, special issue of the monthly Pasban, edited by Mawlānā Mushtāq Aĥmad Niżāmī Ilāhbādī. Şadr’ush Sharīáh – Ĥayāt o Khidmāt: A collection of essays and articles by prominent scholars presented in the Şadr’ush Sharīáh Seminar of 1997.

Compiled by Muftī Faizānul Muşţafā Mişbāĥī (grandson of Mawlānā Amjad Álī) published by Dā’iratu’l Máārif al-Amjadiyyah, Ghosi, UP.

Ĥayāt e Şadr’ush Sharīáh by Baĥr’ul Úlūm Mawlānā Muftī Ábd al-Mannān Aáżamī. Raza Academy, Lahore, Rabīý al-Awwal 1422 AH (June 2001). Tazkirah e Úlamā e Ahl e Sunnat by Shaykh Maĥmūd Aĥmad Qādirī. Reprinted by Sunni Dār al-Ishāát Álawīyyah Ridawiyyah, 1992. First published in Kanpur, India in 1976. Tazkirah e Sadru’sh Sharīáh by Shaykhu’l Úlamā Ghulām Jīlānī Aáżamī Qādirī.

The following editions of ĥadīth works were used for cross-referencing: 1. Şaĥīĥ al-Bukhārī: Imām Abū Ábdullāh Muĥammad ibn Ismāýīl al-Bukhārī [194-256 AH]; ed. Şidqī Jamīl al-Áţţār, Dar al-Fikr, Lebanon, 1420 AH / 2000. 2. Şaĥīĥ Muslim: Imām Abu’l Ĥusayn Muslim ibn Ĥajjāj al-Qushayrī al-Nisābūrī [d. 261 AH]; ed. Şidqī Jamīl al-Áţţār, Dar al-Fikr, Lebanon, 1423 AH / 2003. 3. Sunan Abū Dāwūd: Ĥāfiż Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ash’áth al-Sajistānī [d. 275 AH]; ed. Şidqī Jamīl al-Áţţār, Dar al-Fikr, Beirut, Lebanon, 1426 AH / 2005. 4. Jāmiý at-Tirmidhī: Ĥāfiż Abū Ýīsā Muĥammad ibn Ýīsā ibn Sawrah al-Tirmidhī [d. 279 AH]; ed. Şidqī Jamīl al-Áţţār, Dar al-Fikr, Beirut, Lebanon, 1422 AH / 2002. 5. Sunan Ibn Mājah: Ĥāfiż Abū Ábdullāh Muĥammad ibn Yazīd al-Qazwīnī [207-275 AH]; ed. Şidqī Jamīl al-Áţţār, Dar al-Fikr, Beirut, Lebanon, 1421 AH / 2001. 6. Sunan an-Nasāyī (al-Mujtabā): Ĥāfiż Abū Ábdu’l Raĥmān Aĥmad ibn Shuáyb alNasāyī [d. 215 AH]; ed. by Şidqī Jamīl al-Áţţār, Dar al-Fikr, Beirut, Lebanon, 1426 AH / 2005. 7. Muwaţţa Imām Mālik (Yaĥyā al-Laythī Version): Imām Mālik ibn Anas [93-179 AH]; Şidqī Jamīl Áţţār, third edition, Dar al-Fikr, Beirut, Lebanon, 1422 AH / 2002 CE.

The method of numbering varies across different editions of Muwaţţa; this is due to the inclusion/exclusion of imām Mālik’s own opinions, or even irregular numbering such as in the Fuād Ábdu’l Bāqī edition. Thus, the total number of narrations in the Dār al-Fikr edition are 1891, apparently following Zurqānī’s commentary; however, in one edition of Zurqanī’s commentary, the enumeration is 1844 and 1955 in another.

In other editions of Muwaţţa there are 2861, 2081 and 1952 narrations. The most annoying and frustrating method of numbering is in Muşţafā

Aáżami’s edition of 2004, which includes headings and subheadings and the final count is at 3744 nearly twice as many in any other edition! Ibn Ábd al-Barr’s enumeration in Al-Istidhkār is 1960 narrations. 8. Musnad Imām Aĥmad: Imām Aĥmad ibn Ĥanbal [164-241 AH]; annotations and ĥadīth numbering by Shaykh Muĥammad Ábdu’l Qādir Áţā’a, published by Dar Kotob al-Ílmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon in 2008 in 12 volumes.

It should be noted that numbering and number of ĥadīth varies among different printed editions of Musnad Imām Aĥmad. I will also mention the Companion, in whose musnad [collection of ĥadīth narrated by a particular şaĥābī] the ĥadīth can be found. The following table lists five editions available at hand:

No. of Total Number

No. Editors and Publishing House

Volumes of Hadith

Aĥmad Muĥammad Shakir 20 volumes

1 27,519

Dār al-Ĥadīth, Cairo, 1995. (2 index vols)

Shuáyb Arna’uţ and Adil 50 volumes

2 27,647

Mu’assasah al-Risālah, 1413 AH. (5 index vols)

Muĥammad Ábdu’l Qādir Áţā’a 12 volumes

3 27,169

Dar Kotob al-Ílmiyah, Lebanon, 2008. (1 index vol)

Dr. Aĥmad Maábad al-Azharī 14 volumes

4 28,293

Dar al-Minhāj, 1429 AH / 2008. (2 index vols)

(Names of editors not mentioned) One volume Ed.

5 28,199

Bayt al-Afkār, Riyadh, 1419 AH / 1998. 2106 pages

9. Al-Mustadrak álā’s Şaĥīĥayn of Imām Ĥākim, Abū Ábdullāh Muĥammad ibn Ábdullāh ibn Bayyiý al-Nīsābūrī [321-405 AH]. Dār al-Ĥaramayn li’t ţibāáti wa’n Nashr wa’t Tawzīý, 1417 AH /1997 CE. 10. Sunan Dārimi: also known as Musnad Dārimī: Imām Abū Muĥammad Ábdullāh ibn Bahrām al-Dārimī [181-255 AH], Dar al-Fikr, Lebanon, 1414 AH.

11. Şaĥīĥ Ibn Ĥibbān bi Tartīb Ibn Balbān: Imām Abū Ĥātim, Muĥammad ibn Ĥibbān [d. 354 AH]. Mu’assasah Risālah, Editor: Shuáyb Arnaut, 1414 AH/1994. 12. Musnad Abi Yaálā: Ĥāfiż Aĥmad ibn Álī [210-307 AH]. Edited and crossreferenced by Ĥusayn Salim Asad, Dar al-Ma’mun li’t Turāth, Beirut, 1410 AH. 13. Shuáb al-Īmān, Imām Abū Bakr Aĥmad ibn Ĥusayn al-Bayhaqī []384-458 AH].

Edited by Abū Ĥajar Muĥammad Saydid ibn Basyuni Zaghlul, Dar Kutub alIlmiyyah, 1421 AH. 14. Sunan al-Kubrā, Imām Abū Bakr Aĥmad ibn Ĥusayn al-Bayhaqī []384-458 AH]. Ed. Muĥammad Ábdu’l Qādir Áţā’a, Dar Kutub Ilmiyyah, 1424 AH. 15. Al-Mújam al-Şaghīr: Ĥāfiż Abu’l Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aĥmad al-Ţabarānī [260360 AH].

Al-Maktab al-Islami, Beirut, 1405 AH. 16. Al-Mújam al-Awsaţ: Ĥāfiż Abu’l Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aĥmad al-Ţabarānī [260360 AH], Dār al-Ĥaramayn, Cairo, Egypt, 1415 AH. 17. Al-Mújam al-Kabīr: Ĥāfiż Abu’l Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aĥmad al-Ţabarānī [260360 AH], Maktabah Ibn Taymiyyah, Cairo, Egypt. 18. Al-Targhīb wa’t Tarhīb, Imām Ĥāfiż Zakiyuddīn Ábdu’l Áżīm ibn Ábdu’l Qawiy al-Mundhiri [581-656 AH]; Dār Ibn Ĥazm, 1422 AH. 19. Ĥadīth Application on Android; Jāmiý al-Kutub al-Tisáh, version 4.2 [as on February 2025] by El-Dar al-Arabia for Information & Technology, Riyadh.