Majmu' al-Zawa'id wa Manba' al-Fawa'id (Arabic: مجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد) is a secondary Sunnihadith collection written by Ali ibn Abu Bakr al-Haythami (1335–1404 CE/735–807 AH). It compiles the 'unique'hadith of earlier primary collections.
Description
Al-Zawa'id
As the Centuries passed, some authors began to compile secondary collections of hadith derived from the primary collections – those with isnads[broken anchor] connecting those hadith they contain to their sources. One method of composition of these works was al-zawa'id, the extraction of any 'unique' hadith found in one collection but not in another. Most commonly, the hadith of one collection would be extracted that were not found in six canonical hadith collections.[1]
It is considered secondary because it was collected from previous hadith collections and does not include the isnad[broken anchor] of the hadith. In spite of the fact that its source books are primarily arranged as musnads, Majma' al-Zawa'id is arranged in the manner of a sunan collection – by topical chapter titles relating to jurisprudence.[1] The author provides commentary on the authenticity of each hadith and evaluates some of the narrators.[4] He is, however, considered to have been somewhat lenient in his rulings upon the hadith he graded.[1]
Praise
Al-Kattani described al-Majma al-Zawa'id as being "from the most beneficial books of hadith, or rather, there is no book comparable to it and an equivalent has yet to be authored."[4]
Origins
Majma al-Zawa'id combines several earlier works of the author. Those works are:
Printed by Mu'assash al-Ma'arif in Beirut in 1986 in a total of 10 sections in 5 volumes – 2 sections per volume. It includes the editing of al-'Iraqi and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani.
References
^ abcBuhuth fi Tarikh al-Sunnah al-Musharrafah, by Diya Ikram al-'Umari, pg. 366–7, Maktabah al-'Ulum wa al-Hikam, Madinah, Saudi Arabia, fifth edition, 1994.
