''Al-Mu'jam al-Awsat'' (), is one of the famous
Hadith
Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...
books written by great Hadith Narrator Imam
Al-Tabarani
Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn Muṭayyir al-Lakhmī ash-Shāmī aṭ-Ṭabarānī () (873/874–970/971 CE/260–360 AH), commonly known as at-Tabarani (), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and traditionist known for the exten ...
(874–971 CE, 260–360 AH).
Description
The book contains almost 9500
hadith
Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...
s according to
Al-Maktaba Al-Shamela
Al-Maktaba Al-Shamela () is an Arabic digital library computer software and website which was first launched in April 2005. Users can read more than a hundred digitized books in the Arabic language. The digital library has also been made into appli ...
. It is one of the major book of Hadith written by Imam Tabarani beside his other books. The book contains
Sahih
Hadith terminology () is the body of terminology in Islam which specifies the acceptability of the sayings (''hadith'') attributed to the Prophets in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad by other early Islamic figures of significance such as the compa ...
(authentic), Da'if (weak) and Maud'o (fabricated) narrations.
Publications
The book has been published in various languages by many organizations around the world:
* al-Mu`jam al-awsat
* Mu'jam al-Awsat (7 vol) المعجم الأوسط للطبراني: Published: DKI, Beirut, 2012 (Beirut, Lebanon)
* Urdu: Al-Mujam Al-Awsat Arabic - Urdu (7 Volumes Full Set). By Imam Tabrani: Published: Non, Darussalam
See also
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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
Qur'anic translations ''(in English)''
Some notable & famous ...
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Kutub al-Sittah
(), also known as () are the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam. They were all compiled in the 9th and early 10th centuries, roughly from 840 to 912 CE and are thought to embody the Sunnah of Muhammad.
The books are the of al ...
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Sahih Muslim
() is the second hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. Compiled by Islamic scholar Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj () in the format, the work is valued by Sunnis, alongside , as the most important source for Islamic religion after the Q ...
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Jami al-Tirmidhi
''Sunan al-Tirmidhi'' () is the fourth hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. It was compiled by Islamic scholar al-Tirmidhi in (250–270 AH).
Title
The full title of the compilation is (). It is shortened to , , , or .
The te ...
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Sunan Abu Dawood
''Sunan Abi Dawud'' () is the third hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. It was compiled by scholar Abu Dawud al-Sijistani ().
Introduction
Abu Dawood compiled twenty-one books related to Hadith and preferred those (plural of ...
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Jami' at-Tirmidhi
''Sunan al-Tirmidhi'' () is the fourth hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. It was compiled by Islamic scholar al-Tirmidhi in (250–270 AH).
Title
The full title of the compilation is (). It is shortened to , , , or .
The t ...
* Either:
Sunan ibn Majah,
Muwatta Malik
''Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ'' (, 'the approved') or ''Muwatta Imam Malik'' () of Imam Malik (711–795) written in the 8th-century, is one of the earliest collections of hadith texts comprising the subjects of Islamic law, compiled by the Imam, Malik ...
References
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9th-century Arabic-language books
10th-century Arabic-language books
Sunni literature
Sunni hadith collections