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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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