Kanz al-Ummal Fee Sunan al-Aqwal wa al-Af'al ( ar-at, كنز العمال في سنن الأقوال والأفعال, '), known in English as Treasures of the Doers of Good Deeds, is a
Sunni hadith collection, collected by the
Islamic scholar
In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of religious ...
Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik al-Hindi
‘Ala al-Din ‘Ali ibn ‘Abd-al-Malik Husam al-Din al-Muttaqi al-Hindi (1472 - 1567 CE/888 - 975 AH) was a Sunni Islamic scholar who is known for writing Kanz al-Ummal.dhikr.html" ;"title="l. of "dhikr">l. of "dhikr" ‘Ali al-Muttaqī soon af ...
(1472 CE - 1567 CE).
Description
Kanz al-Ummal is an arrangement of
Jalaluddin al-Suyuti
Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti ( ar, جلال الدين السيوطي, Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī) ( 1445–1505 CE),; ( Brill 2nd) or Al-Suyuti, was an Arab Egyptian polymath, Islamic scholar, historian, Sufi, and jurist. From a family of Persian ...
's work, Jami' al-Kabir.
It contains around 46,000 hadith,
which are an assortment of varying reliability.
Hadith found in it are quoted without a full chain and there are potentially fabricated hadith in the work.
Editions
*First Published by Dā’irat al-Ma‘ārif
Hyderabad
Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India ...
Deccan, edited by the scholars of
Jamia Nizamia
Jamia Nizamia more properly, Jami'ah Nizamiyyah, is one of the oldest Islamic seminaries of higher learning for Muslims located in Hyderabad, India. It is named after its founder- the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad.
History
It was founded by Shaykh ...
.
*Published by Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmīyah, Lebanon, 1998, edited by Mahmud Umar al-Dumyati.
See also
*
List of Sunni books
This is a list of significant books in the doctrines of Sunni Islam. A classical example of an index of Islamic books can be found in Kitāb al-Fihrist of Ibn Al-Nadim.
The Qur'an and its translations (in English)
:# ''The Meaning of the Glorio ...
References
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Sunni literature
Sunni hadith collections
15th-century Indian books
16th-century Indian books
15th-century Arabic books
16th-century Arabic books
Islamic literature
Indian religious texts
Indian non-fiction books