Al-Ḥadīth al-Mursal According to Imᾱm al-Mizzī in his Book Tuḥfat al-Ashrᾱf, (Descriptive Study)

Abstract

Jamāl al-DīnAbū al-ḤajjājYūsuf ibn al-ZakīʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mizzī.Was a Syrian muhaddith and the foremost `Ilm al-rijāl Islamic scholar.Al-Mizzī was born near Aleppo in 1256 under the reign of the last Ayyubid emir An-Nasir Yusuf. In his childhood he moved with his family to the village of al-Mizza outside Damascus, where he was educated in Qur’ān and fiqh. In his twenties he began his studies to become a muḥaddith and learned from the masters. He travelled across the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, Syria (الشَّام), and Ḥijāz and became the greatest `Ilm al-rijāl (عِلْمُ الرِّجال) scholar of the Muslim world and an expert grammarian and philologist of Arabic.His famous book is Tuhfatul Ashraf, where he has collected all the Mursal hadiths from the different hadith books. I will discuss in this article what were the method of Imam Mizzi in collecting the hadith.We should know that, Imam Mizzi has not only compiled the Mursal Hadiths here, but also collected the all Maqtoo’ and Maqoof Hadith, and Athar of many Companions. Now question is that, how accurate was he in compiling all those mursal, maktoo’ and maoqoof hadiths? InshaAllah we will be tried to find out its answer here in this article, and we will describe them with examples.