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Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal

 
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Sunni six major collections
(Al-Sihah al-Sittah):

  1. Sahih al-Bukhari
  2. Sahih Muslim
  3. Sunan an-Nasa'i al-Sughra
  4. Sunan Abu Dawood
  5. Sunan al-Tirmidhi
  6. Sunan Ibn Maja

Shi'a Twelver collections:

  1. Kitab al-Kafi of Kulainy
  2. Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq
  3. Tahdhib al-Ahkam by Shaikh Tusi
  4. al-Istibsar by Shaykh Tusi

Ibadi collections:

  • al-Jami' as-Sahih by al-Rabi' ibn Habib
  • Tartib al-Musnad by al-Warijlani
Sunni collections
Shi'a Twelver collections
Shi'a Ismaili collections
Mu'tazili collections

Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal is a collection of Hadith collected by the famous Sunni scholar Ibn Hanbal to whom the Hanbali madhab of Sunnis is attributed.

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It is said by some that Ibn Hanbal made a comment in regards to his book which read as follows:

"There is not a hadith that I have included in this book except that it was used as evidence by some of the scholars."

Certain Hanbali scholars, such as Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi claimed that the Musnad contains hadiths that are fabricated by interpolation (i.e. the narrator jumbling up information, mixing texts and authoritative chains). However, it is agreed that the hadith that are suspected to be fabricated are not new hadiths that are creations of a dubious narrators imagination.[1].

An issue concerning Imam Ahmad's hadith collection, his Musnad, was that during his work on it, he struck out various hadith as not belonging to his collection. This methodology was not understood by some of the copyists and they reinserted some of these hadith which Ibn Hanbal had made efforts to remove in their transcriptions.

See also

References

  1. ^ Fatawa of Ibn Taimiya, vol 1, page 248.

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