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Where Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab names another work or author, the harvest records the passage that does it and the chapter that passage stands in. 100 citations across 15 chapters, drawn from 90 named sources; 4 of those sources stand in the library. 1 work in the library quotes it back.
38 authority 27 neutral 10 refuted 3 extended 22 endorsed Of the 100 citations in Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab, 10 argue against their source.
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al-Dhahabī 1 neutral 2 extended 6 citations · 11 passages
the science of hadith 2 passages anchored here · the ḥanafīs 2 passages anchored here · the ḥanbalīs · ch. 15 6 passages anchored hereThe annotator quotes the author's own book to carry his diagnosis further, and marks the quotation's close with the abbreviation for its end.
From an exemplar copied out of the manuscript of al-Burhān ibn Jamāʻah, which he wrote from the manuscript of al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Ṣalāḥ al-ʻAlāʼī, taken from al-Dhahabī's own hand
ch. 15 · Presented as an authentic document of the author's own position. ¶ -
Sahih Muslim Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj 2 citations · 3 passages
It is invoked throughout the footnotes as one half of the fixed canon of sound hadith.
[7] (1) As for The Collation of the Two Ṣaḥīḥs, it is by al-Ḥumaydī al-Andalusī (d.
the science of hadith · the second canonical base text ¶ -
The Qur'an God 2 citations · 5 passages
Scripture is the authority on which both the rebuke of the reciters and the annotator's defence of their science rest.
[5] (1) The sciences of the readings are among the noblest of the sciences, for their attachment to the Wise Qur'an, by which the Muslims are made happy when they hold fast to its guidance in the affairs of both worlds, and by which they meet humiliation and misery if they cast it behind their backs.
ch. 1 · invoked as the text the whole science exists to serve ¶ -
The Qur'an commentary of al-Razi Fakhr al-Din al-Razi 1 refuted 1 endorsed 2 citations · 3 passages
The author names the commentary and warns explicitly against listening to its contents.
al-Rāzī — and in it are perplexities and raisings of doubt which ought not to be listened to, for they bewilder and sicken and bring to ruin, and they slake no thirst.
ch. 8 · a work cited in order to be condemned ¶ -
The sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad 2 citations · 4 passages
The chapter's praise and its argument both rest on prophetic authority, twice introduced with the formula that it is established that the Prophet said.
For it is incumbent upon the judge and the mufti that he keep God Most High before his eyes and go slowly in giving judgement by way of following authority (*taqlīd*), and above all in the spilling of blood;
the mālikīs · the authority that overrides the school's own imam ¶ -
al-Ilal al-Daraqutni 2 neutral 2 citations · 1 passage
It is listed factually among the sources of another author's judgements.
As for the book al-Aḥkām, it is by the memorizer ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Ishbīlī (d.
the science of hadith · reported as a critical source behind al-Aḥkām ¶ -
Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī 1 neutral 1 citation
The book is invoked only as the identifying epithet صاحب التنبيه.
or had you a trade, you would resemble the scholars of old, who never set eyes on colleges and never heard of endowed posts, who fled when they were sought for the judgeship, who made worship of their learning and gave it freely to men, and were content with a coarse garment and a crust — as the imam Abū Isḥāq, the author of al-Tanbīh, was not long ago, and as the shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn, the author o …
the shāfiʻīs · a work named to identify a person ¶ -
Bayan zaghl al-ilm wa-al-talab al-Dhahabi 1 citation · 2 passages
The book is adduced as the authoritative witness to al-Dhahabī's own stance, and identified by name at its close.
The fact of the matter is that a number of the learned had been quick to lavish praise upon Ibn Taymīyah and to take his side at the outset, and then found it hard to retract what they had said of him — until he pushed deep into those singular positions of his for which he is known, whereupon they forsook him one after another, al-Jalāl al-Qazwīnī and al-Qūnawī and al-Jarīrī and others, and their …
the science of logic · Treated as the decisive evidence of the author's real opinion. ¶ -
al-Māwardī 1 citation
A named exegete is adduced as the authority for a specific reading used to refute the author's exclusion of arithmetic.
[28] (1) It is as though he were letting himself forget what has been said concerning the words of God Most High, reported of Joseph, peace be upon him, “I am a trusty keeper, knowing” — that is, a keeper of tongues, knowing the science of arithmetic, as Abū al-Ḥasan al-Māwardī and others have mentioned.
ch. 13 · Relied on as the exegetical authority that legitimates arithmetic. ¶
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81 sourcesEach stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.
- ch. 1 1 source
- The ruling of the exacting scholars on the obligation of tawatur in the readings
- the science of hadith 27 sources
- Atraf al-Sahihayn · Hadith of Hammad ibn Salamah on the mountain sinking away · Marifat al-sunan wa-al-athar · Mustakhraj upon al-Bukhari · Mustakhraj upon the two Sahihs · Sahih al-Bukhari · Sufyan al-Thawri's dictum on hadith · The Five Books · The Zahiri school · The collection of Ibn Abi Shaybah · The two halves of hadith · al-Ahadith al-mukhtarah · al-Ahkam al-kubra · al-Falak al-mashhun · al-Humaydi's remark on tracking sound hadith outside the two Sahihs · al-Ihtimam bi-talkhis al-Ilmam · al-Ilmam fi ahadith al-ahkam · al-Istidrakat wa-al-tatabbu · al-Jam bayna al-Sahihayn · al-Jawhar al-naqi · al-Kamil · al-Muwatta · al-Shafi'i's saying on combining jurisprudence and hadith · al-Sunan · al-Tirmidhi's standard of authentication · al-Umm · al-Wahm wa-al-iham fi Kitab al-Ahkam
- the mālikīs 4 sources
- Hadith on the ample room of a man's religion · Hadith that the first thing judged between men is blood · Malik's dictum that every man's word is taken and left · The Maliki school
- the ḥanafīs 14 sources
- Al-Sam'ani's report on Abu Yusuf's tenure of the judgeship · Ibn Abi Shaybah's criticisms of Abu Hanifah · Intisar al-faqir al-salik li-madhhab al-imam al-kabir Malik · Kitab al-kharaj · Malik's ruling that the heretic's repentance is not accepted · Muhammad ibn al-Hasan's disavowal of the Book of Legal Devices · Muhammad ibn al-Hasan's verdict on the ina sale · Sharh Mukhtasar al-Rawdah · Tarikh al-Marwaziyyin · The Qur'an, verse on those who believed then disbelieved · The Zahiri-free schools' doctrine that repentance is accepted · The counsel to leave what makes you doubt · The hadith concerning one who changes his religion · The report transmitted from Abu Musa
- the shāfiʻīs 5 sources
- Al-Shafi'i's standing among the people of hadith · The Hanbali school · The report from Ahmad that al-Shafi'i had no acquaintance with hadith · al-Madarik · al-Minhaj
- the ḥanbalīs 1 source
- al-Durar al-kaminah
- ch. 7 4 sources
- Lisan al-Arab · Mukhtar al-Sihah · al-Misbah · al-Qamus al-muhit
- ch. 8 2 sources
- The sayings of the forebears in exegesis · al-Iksir fi qawa'id al-tafsir
- ch. 9 7 sources
- Ibn Daqiq al-Id's judgement on the Hashwiyah · Sharh al-Ilmam · The Qur'an, verse asking whether those who know and those who do not are equal · The creed of the forebears · The doctrine of the People of the Sunnah against anathematizing an opponent · The prophetic saying on leaving alone what does not concern one · al-Qushayri's defence of the science of kalam
- the science of logic 2 sources
- al-Qawl al-jali · al-Radd al-wafir
- the science of philosophy 5 sources
- Mukhtasar al-Rawdah · Rawdat al-nazir · The writings of the philosophers · Uqud al-juman · al-Mustasfa
- ch. 12 1 source
- Hadith on eloquence as sorcery
- ch. 13 1 source
- Surat al-Shu'ara'
- ch. 15 7 sources
- Hadith forbidding ill speech of the dead · Hadith on the hypocrite with a learned tongue · Saying on the gift of one's own faults · The formulations of the Yunusiyah · The polemical writings of Ibn Hazm · The two Sahihs · al-Ilan bi-al-tawbikh
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Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab al-Dhahabī 1 citation · 2 passages
The book is adduced as the authoritative witness to al-Dhahabī's own stance, and identified by name at its close.
The fact of the matter is that a number of the learned had been quick to lavish praise upon Ibn Taymīyah and to take his side at the outset, and then found it hard to retract what they had said of him — until he pushed deep into those singular positions of his for which he is known, whereupon they forsook him one after another, al-Jalāl al-Qazwīnī and al-Qūnawī and al-Jarīrī and others, and their …
the science of logic ¶
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