she met some of the most prominent poets, artists, and intellectuals of the age. Her friend, the late poet Onsi Hajj, recalled their meeting fondly, as cited by Nawal al-Ali in Al Akhbar: “A girl with curly hair on her head, and a sharp but deep look at ...
but seeing as this is a sermon its spread was probably not like the spread of ahadith. The genre this would have been in early Islamic history would have been siyar and akhbar, the transmission of which is made out to be sloppy with the inclusion of majahil, but the authorities and meth...
(9)”Arba’in Hadith fi al-Mahdi,”by Abdul Ala al-Hamadani. (10)”Akhbar al-Mahdi,”by al-Hafidh Abu Nu’aym. In conclusion, the belief in the coming Mahdi (as) who is a person other than Jesus (as), is an undeniable fact for the Sunnis. As we discussed above, the Sunni sc...
received the work from someone who is once called Saʿīd and another time Saʿīda, and whom I have not been able to identify.91 The reading Saʿīda seems to be the more reliable, as the text has Abū al-Fatḥ state akhbaratnī and mention her audition from al-Ḥumaydī....
91 The reading Saʿīda seems to be the more reliable, as the text has Abū al-Fatḥ state akhbaratnī and mention her audition from al-Ḥumaydī. This sheds an interesting light on the composition of the latter’s student body. Having himself intensively studied Ṣaḥīḥ al-...