ISLAMIC EXCELLENCES (FADA'IL) LITERATURE

Fadā'il al-Qur'ān

("The Excellences of the Qur'an")


Stephen N. Lambden (Ohio Unversity), Athens, Ohio.

IN PROGRESS 2006-7

"There is a voluminous literature in Islam called faḍā'il or manaqib ("virtues" or "excellences") that praises the merits of reciting the Qur'an, of the Companions of the Prophet, the performance of religious duties such as hajj and jihad, and of sacred cities such as Makka, Madina, and Jerusalem. Initially, faḍā'il  traditions were part of hadlth compilations. Several of the sub-categories, such as faḍā'il  al-sahāba and faḍā'il  al-buldān, have been studied in some depth;  but the faḍā'il al-Qur'an literature has not received similar attention" (Afsaruddin, 2002:1).

 

(1) THE QUR'AN

Fadā'il al-Qur'ān ("The Excellences of the Qur'an")

Among the Fadā'il al-Qur'ān ("The Excellences of the Qur'an") [1]

Sunni Hadith -- Muslim = http://www.tanzeem.org/quran/Muslim/content30.html

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al-Harawī = Abu `Ubayd al-Qāsim ibn al-Sallām ibn `Abd-Allah Abī `Ubayd al-Harawī (d. 157-224 AH = 774-839 CE).

Sunni Hadith  scholar and philologist.

  • Kitāb Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān. Damascus-Beirut: Dar Ibn Kathir, 1420/1999 (478pp.). *

  • Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān. Sidon-Beirut: Maktabat al-`Aṣriyya, 1426/2005 (176pp.). ISBN 9953-34-397-7. *

  • Gharīb al-Ḥadīth,

al-Qāsim ibn Sallām ibn `Abd-Allah Abī `Ubayd al-Harawī (d. 157/224) was an early  Sunni Hadith  scholar and philologist who authored the Gharīb al-Ḥadīth,

  • Kitāb Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān  (3rd printing) Damascus-Beirut: Dār Ibn Kathīr, 1420/1999. 478pp. incl. indexes.

Abu ‘Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam (ca. 773-ca. 837 ???

  • Kitab Fada'il al-Qur'an.  ed. Marwān al-‘Atīyah, Muhsin Kharābah, Wafā' Taqī al-Dīn,  Damascus: Dar Ibn Kathir, 1995
     

Ibn Kathīr = 'Imād al-Dīn Abu'l-Fiḍā' Ismā'il ibn 'Urnar ibn Kathīr (d. 774/1373).

  • Kitab Fada'il al-Qur'an. ed. Abu Ishāq al-Huwaynī al-Atharī.  Cairo:  Maktabat Ibn Taymīyah ; Jiddah : tawzī‘ Maktabat al-‘Ilm, 1416 /1995-6.

Nasā'ī, Ahmad ibn Shu‘ayb (d. c. 830 / 915).

  •  Fadā'i,l al-Qur'ān ed.  Fārūq Hammādah  Beirut:  al-Dār al-Baydā' : Dār al-Thaqāfah, 1980
     

  • Kitāb Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān. (3rd printing) Damascus-Beirut: Dār Ibn Kathīr, 1420/1999. 478pp. incl. indexes. SL-USA*

 

General articles

Afsaruddin, Asma :

  • The Excellences of the Qur'an: Textual Sacrality and the Organization of Early Islamic Society' in JAOS 122/1 (2002), 1-24.