Fayd al-Qadir Sharh al-Jami' al-Saghir

Fayd al-Qadir Sharh al-Jami' al-Saghir is 'Abd al-Ra'uf al-Munawi's large commentary on al-Suyuti's al-Jami' al-Saghir. ¹ Al-Albani describes it as criticising the hadiths of the Jami' and stating their grades at length without covering them all; it treats the original only and not the Ziyada, which makes up nearly half of al-Fath al-Kabir. ¹

Al-Albani quotes al-Munawi's commentary that al-Suyuti included many weak hadiths in the Jami', that he ought to have followed each hadith with the word "sound", "good" or "weak", and that the sigla in some copies — a head of sad, ha' or dad — should not be trusted, as copyists so often corrupted them. ² He also quotes him that al-Suyuti often cites a hadith to its compiler when the compiler had added a remark impugning its chain, and leaves that remark out. ³ Al-Albani points to places where the siglum in the very copy carrying al-Munawi's commentary contradicts what al-Munawi says the author's siglum was. ⁴