''Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal'' ( ar, مسند أحمد بن حنبل) is a collection of
musnad hadith compiled by the
Islamic
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scholar
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Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241 AH/855 AD) to whom the
Hanbali
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fiqh
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(legislation) is attributed.
Description
It is one of the largest hadith books in Islamic history containing more than twenty-seven thousand hadiths, according to Maktaba Shamila. It is organized into compilations of the hadiths narrated by each companion, starting with "the ten who were promised Paradise". This highlights their status and the efforts they made to preserve the
ahadith of
Muhammad
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.
It is said by some that
Ahmad ibn Hanbal made a comment in regard to his book which reads as follows: "I have only included a hadith in this book if it had been used as evidence by some of the scholars."
Abu al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzi ironically claimed that the ''Musnad'' contains hadiths that are
fabricated by interpolation (i.e. the narrator jumbling up information, mixing texts and authoritative chains), which were said to be nine Hadiths by some, or fifteen hadiths by others. However, it is agreed that the hadith that are suspected to be fabricated are not new hadiths that are creations of a dubious narrator's imagination.
Publications
The book has been published by many organizations around the world, including:
* Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Hanbal: Published: Noor Foundation USA
* English Translation Of Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal (4 Vols) : Published: Darussalam
* English Translation Of Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal (5 Vols) : Published: Darussalam
See also
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List of Sunni books
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Sahih Muslim
Sahih Muslim ( ar, صحيح مسلم, translit=Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim), group=note is a 9th-century '' hadith'' collection and a book of '' sunnah'' compiled by the Persian scholar Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj (815–875). It is one of the most valued b ...
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Jami al-Tirmidhi
Jami at-Tirmidhi ( ar, جامع الترمذي), also known as Sunan at-Tirmidhi, is one of "the six books" ('' Kutub al-Sittah'' - the six major hadith collections). It was collected by Al-Tirmidhi. He began compiling it after the year 250 A.H ...
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Sunan Abu Dawood
''Sunan Abu Dawood'' ( ar-at, سنن أبي داود, Sunan Abī Dāwūd) is one of the '' Kutub al-Sittah'' (six major hadith collections), collected by Abu Dawud al-Sijistani (d.889).
Introduction
Abu Dawood compiled twenty-one books related ...
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Sunan ibn Majah
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Muwatta Malik
The ''Muwaṭṭaʾ'' ( ar, الموطأ, "well-trodden path") or ''Muwatta Imam Malik'' ( ar, موطأ الإمام مالك) of Imam Malik (711–795) written in the 8th-century, is one of the earliest collections of hadith texts comprising t ...
*
Majma al-Zawa'id
Notes
The Internet Archive hosts a copy of Musnad Ahmad Volume 4 in English at https://archive.org/details/musnadahmadvol.4final.
References
External links
Methodology of Imam Ahmad(Arabic)
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