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seen from its title, the collection of Hadiths   According to several sources, Hasan          hadith, al-Bantani showed that he      was born in Termas, Pacitan, East
                                   in this book concern information about the   Besut ibn Ishaq al-Fathani (d. 1860) also        was part of the strong assembly of     Java, on 12  Jumada al-Awwal 1285
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                                   Mahdi and it is thus the first book in Malay   made a Malay translation of ‘Abd al-‘Azim      hadith‘ulama and hence also was one    A.H./31  August 1868 A.D. He resided
                                   on hadith that specifically discuss the   al-Munziri’s forty Hadiths. He entitled             of the authorities in this field. Another   in Mecca up to his death on 1  Rajab
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                                   theological concept of the Mahdi.       his translation Hidayat al-mukhtar fi fadl            ‘alim who wrote a commentary on        1338 A.H./20  May 1919 A.D. Mahfuz
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                                                                           al-talab al-‘ilm wa fadl sahibihi min kalam           the Lubab al-Hadith was Wan Ali bin    Termas composed the Manhaj Dhawi
                                   Dawud al-Fatani also wrote Kashf        sayyid al-akhyar, which was completed in              Abdur Rahman Kutan al-Kelantani,       al-nazarfi sharh manzumat ‘ilm al-
                                   al-Ghummah in 1236 A.H./1822 A.D.,      1259 A.H./1833 A.D. 65                                whose bookal-Jawhar al-mawhūb was      atharwhich was completed on 1329
                                   which is a Malay translation of a work                                                        completed on Monday night, 2  Jumada   A.H./1911 A.D., about nine years before
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                                   under the same Arabic title composed    A grand-disciple of Dawud al-Fatani, al-              al-awal 1306 A.H./1888 A.D. If al-Bantani   he passed away. This work in Arabic
                                   by ‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha’rani. When     Nawawi al-Bantani (born 1230 A.H./1814                wrote in Arabic, al-Kelantani composed   is a commentary on Jalal al-Din al-
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                                   printing reached its golden age during   A.D.) was an ‘alim from Banten who                   his commentary in Malay.               Suyuti’sal-Manzumat ‘Ilm al-athar and
                                   the ‘Fataniyah dynasty, this book was   continued the tradition of writing books                                                     turned Mahfuz Termas into aneminent
                                   one among many others that were edited   on hadith in the archipelago in the                  Ahmad al-Fatani, the son of another ‘alim   Indonesian ‘alim who was also
                                   and printed in 1303 A.H./1885 A.D.      following periods. His was specialized                within the Fatani family, Muhammad Zain   prominent in Hadith, and many ‘ulama
                                   Another book in Malay from this period   in Islamic law but two of his books                  al-Fatani was an ‘alim from the Malay-  from all over the Islamic world referred
                                   is Shifa’ al-Qulub that comprises about   concern Hadith. The first is in Arabic              Indonesian region who paid great attention   to this book.
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                                   forty Hadiths. Its author is unknown but   entitled Tanqih qawl hadith bi sharh               to the field of hadth at the end of the 19
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                                   the work was completed on 2  Ramadan    lubab al-hadith and is a commentary on                century. Ahmad wrote several books on   Entering the 20  century, the writing
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                                   1225 A.H./1  October 1810 A.D. Its      al-Suyuti’sLubab al-hadith.                           hadith, both in Arabic and Malay, viz.   of books on hadith in the archipelago
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                                   introductory section states:            The second is Nasa’ih al-ibad sharh                   Bisharat al-‘amilin wa nazarat al-ghafilin,   did not subside. Among the works that
                                                                                                                                 Hadis memulakan makan dengan garam
                                                                                                                                                                        were produced is the Hadith ‘Ataqah by
                                      “…I collected various prophetic      munabbihat ‘ala al-isti’dad li yawm al-               dan disudahi dengannya, Hadis-hadis    Muhammad Mukhtar bin Ataridi al-Jawi
                                      hadiths whose narrations have valid   ma’ad and was completed on Thursday,                 pilihan, and Daftar rijal hadis. 66    al-Batawi al-Bawaqiri, an ‘alimfrom
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                                      chains of transmission (isnad) and are   21  Safar 1311 A.H./1893 A.D. and                                                        Bogor, West Java. He proposed several
                                      trusted accounts (riwayat). However,   comprisesof 250 hadiths. As can be seen             Mahfuz Termas, whose full name was     problems on‘Ataqah Kubra.It was
                                      I omitted all sorts of isnad as I did   from its title, it is a commentary on the          Muhammad Mahfuz bin Abdullah bin       completed on the 21  Zulhijjah 1330
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                                      not strickly take over each redaction.   Munabbihat ‘ala al-isti’dad by Shihab             Abdul Manan bin Abdullah bin Ahmad     A.H./1  December 1912.
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                                      I took only the meanings so that one   al-Din Ahmad ibn ‘Ali ibn Muhammad ibn              al-Tarmasi was the leading Hadith‘alim
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                                      can write them with no difficulties, and   Ahmad al-Shafi’i, who was well known to         at the end of the 19  century and      Finally, the last book on hadith written in
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                                      one would not get bored reading it. I   Ibn Hajar al-Asqallani.                            the beginning of the 20  century. He   Malay I was able to find is Muhammad
                                      collected [those hadiths] in a book.”  It is clear that through his books on               66.  HWM Shagir Abdullah, Al-‘Allamah Syeikh   67.  Abdurrahman Mas’ud, “Mahfuz al-Tirmisi (d.
                                                                                                                                 Ahmad Al Fathani Ahli Fikir Islam dan Dunia   1338/1919): An Intellectual Biography” Studia
                                   64. Shagir Abdullah, Penyebaran…. (vol. 10, 2000),   65. Shagir Abdullah, Penyebaran…. (vol. 13, 2000),   Melayu (Kuala Lumpur: Khazanah Fathaniyah,   Islamika, 5:2 (Jakarta: PPIM UIN Jakarta), p. 33-
                                   p. 21.                                  p. 42.                                                1992), pp. 44-48.                      35.


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