Al-Jami al-Kamil
| Author | Imam Ziya-ur-Rahman Azmi |
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| Original title | الجامع الكامل في الحديث الصحيح الشامل |
| Country | KSA and PAK |
| Language | Arabic |
| Genre | Hadith collection |
| Published | 2019 (Dar Ibn Bashir) (Arabic) 2nd/final edition |
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Al-Jāmi' al-Kāmil Fī al-Hadīth al-Sahīh al-Shāmil or in short al-Jāmi' al-Kāmil (Arabic: الجامع الكامل في الحديث الصحيح الشامل), known in English as The Comprehensive Collection of all Authentic Prophetic Narrations or The Authentic Hadith Encyclopaedia, is a secondary hadith collection book, compiled by the Islamic scholar Imam Ziya-ur-Rahman Azmi (1943 CE – 30 July 2020 CE). In this book, the author claims that he has compiled all authentic Prophetic narrations (sahīh ahādīth) from more than two hundred books.[1][2][3]
Description[edit]
Drawing from 40 years of scholarship and 20 years specifically compiling the work, Azami is the first person in history to compile a comprehensive statement of all sahīh and hasan hadīths in one work. Azami states that he is confident that if not 100%, he has captured 95% of all authentic narrations of the Prophet's sunnah. According to Islamic scholar Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti, "this is such a work that no one has done before."[4]
Number of Hadith[edit]
The first edition contains 15979 sahīh or hasan hadīths whereas the second and final edition contains 16546 hadiths.
Azami estimates that the totality of hadīths (i.e. mutun/texts) in all books are 40,000 (with repetition removed). 8,000 exist in the kutub al-sittah (with repetition removed); 19,000 in the zawā'id (of the Musnad of Ahmed, Bazzar, Abu Ya'la, and Tabrāni's three). The zawā'id (unique hadīths not found elsewhere) do not constitute more than 10,000.
He states that the number of authentic texts (mutun sahīha) are approximately between 12,000 and 15,000. The vast majority of these are from the kutub al-sittah, Ahmed's Musnad and Malik's Muwatta - he estimates no more than 2,000 exist elsewhere.
Editions[edit]
The first edition was published in 2016 by Dar us Salam, Riyad in 12 volumes. Al-Maktabah al-Shamela digitised this edition and it is available online.[5]
Azami then reviewed his work and made minor modifications resulting in the second and final edition that was published by Maktaba bayt al-Salam, Dar Ibn Bashir (دار ابن بشیر) in Pakistan in 19 volumes. This is the used (mu'tamad) edition representing the author's settled views.
For the benefit of laypeople, Ziya-ur-Rahman Azmi compiled an abridged version (talkhīs) that omits commentary on each hadith's authenticity (takhrīj), only containing the hadīths themselves, and omitting the additional c.1000 weak hadiths that others considered authentic but he declared weak.
Translations[edit]
The English translation of the abridged edition is complete and is awaiting publication (as of March 2024).[6]
Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria edited the first volume of the Bengali translation of the book translated by Abdullah Al-Mamun Al-Azhari.[7]
Its Urdu translation is due to be completed in Q2 2024, under the supervision of Sheikh Ibn Bashir (of Dar Ibn Bashir) and Abdul Rehman Mahdi.
Publication[edit]
- Arabic first edition (12 volumes), published by Dar-us-salam Publications KSA.[8][9][10][11]
- Final Arabic second edition (19 volumes) published by Maktaba Bayt al-Salam, Dar Ibn Bashir, Pakistan
- Urdu translation (based on the Arabic second/final edition) published by Dar Ibn Bashir, Pakistan.
References[edit]
- ^ "Jāmi' al-kāmil fī al-ḥadīth al-ṣaḥīḥ al-shāmil al-murattab 'alá abwāb al-fiqh (12 v.)". www.arabicbookshop.net. 19 July 2023. ISBN 9786030192618.
- ^ Azmi, Zakir (3 March 2017). "Journey from Hinduism to Islam to professor of Hadith in Madinah". Saudi Gazette. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
- ^ Tariq 2020.
- ^ Bhatti 2012, p. 75.
- ^ "Al Jaame Al Kaamil Al Hadeeth As Saheeh Ash Shaamil - A Collection of All the Saheeh Hadeeth..." Zakir Naik's Official Youtube Page. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ^ "Al-Jami Ul-Kamil Fi Al-Hadith Al-Sahih Al-Shamil (12 Vols.)". www.islamhouse.in. 15 Feb 2022. Retrieved 15 Feb 2022.
- ^ "সহীহ হাদীস সম্বলিত অহী ও ঈমান বিশ্বকোষ - বাংলা". IslamHouse.com (in Bengali).
- ^ "Arabic: Al-Jamiul Kamil fee Al-Hadith As-Sahih Al-Shamil (12 Vol Set)". www.dar-us-salam.com. 15 Feb 2022. Archived from the original on 28 January 2022. Retrieved 15 Feb 2022.
- ^ "Jāmi' al-kāmil fī al-ḥadīth al-ṣaḥīḥ al-shāmil al-murattab 'alá abwāb al-fiqh (12 v.)". 19 July 2023. ISBN 9786030192618.
- ^ "Al-Jami Ul-Kamil Fi Al-Hadith Al-Sahih Al-Shamil (12 Vols.)". www.islamhouse.in. 15 Feb 2022. Retrieved 15 Feb 2022.
- ^ "Al Jami Ul Kamil Fi Hadith Al Shamil". aalimbooks.com. 15 Feb 2022. Retrieved 15 Feb 2022.
Works cited[edit]
- Bhatti, Muhammad Ishaq (2012). "Dr. Ziaur Rahman Azmi". Barr-e-Sagheer mai Ahle Hadees ki Awwaliyaat (in Urdu). Gujranwala: Dar Abi al-Tayyib. pp. 74–76.
- Tariq, Lubna (30 June 2020). "اعظم گڑھ کا ہندو کیسے مدینہ یونیورسٹی اور مسجد نبوی کا معلم بن گیا" [How did a Hindu of Azamgarh became professor of the Medina University and Masjid Nabawi]. Baseerat Online (in Urdu). Retrieved 27 December 2021.
