Fadā'il al-Qur'ān
("The Excellences of the Qur'an") and related Islamic Literatures, Notes and Bibliography.
Stephen N. Lambden (Ohio Unversity), Athens, Ohio/ UCMerced.
NOW IN PROGRESS 2016.
"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).
Fadā'il al-Qur'ān ("The Excellences of the Qur'an").
فـضـائـل الـقـرآن :
al-Harawī = Abu `Ubayd al-Qāsim ibn al-Sallām ibn `Abd-Allah Abī `Ubayd al-Harawī (157-224 AH = 774-839 CE).
Sunni Hadith scholar and philologist.
- Kitab Fada'il al-Qur'an. ed. Marwān al-‘Atīyah, Muhsin Kharābah, Wafā' Taqī al-Dīn, Damascus: Dar Ibn Kathir, 1995.
- Kitāb Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān. Damascus-Beirut: Dar Ibn Kathir, 1420/1998-9 (478pp.). *
- Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān. Sidon-Beirut: Maktabat al-`Aṣriyya, 1426/2005 (176pp.). ISBN 9953-34-397-7. *
- Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān. Beirut : Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmīyah, 2005. 280pp.
- PDf. Univ. Tübingen (Germany) : http://idb.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/diglit/MaVI96.
- Gharīb al-Ḥadīth,
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'il 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.
