Musnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal

Musnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal is a collection of hadith compiled by the Islamic scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241 AH/855 AD) to whom the Hanbali fiqh (legislation) is attributed.

Description

It is one of the largest hadith books written in Islamic History containing more than twenty-seven thousand (27000) hadiths according to Maktaba Shamila. It is organized into compilations of the hadiths narrated by each Companion (Sahabi), starting with the ‘asharah mubashsharah (“the ten who were promised Paradise”). This highlights their status and the efforts they made to preserve the ahadeeth of the Messenger of Allah.

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 some 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.

Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal

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 (5 Vols) : Published: Darussalam

Read

1. Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal Volume 1
2. Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal Volume 2
3. Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal Volume 3

Sunni collections

Main article: List of Sunni Books

• Kutub al-Sittah, the Six Canonical Books of Hadith.

1. 1. Sahih Bukhari (English)
   2. Sahih Muslim (English)
   3. Sunan Abu Dawud
   4. Jami al-Tirmidhi
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      2. jami-at-tirmidhi-vol-2-ahadith-0544-1204
      3. jami-at-tirmidhi-vol-3-ahadith-1205-1896
      4. jami-at-tirmidhi-vol-4-ahadith-1897-2605
      5. jami-at-tirmidhi-vol-5-ahadith-2606-3290
      6. jami-at-tirmidhi-vol-6-ahadith-3291-3956
   5. Sunan an-Nasa’i
      1. Sunan-an-Nasa-i-Vol-1-English
      2. Sunan-an-Nasa-i-Vol-2-English
      3. Sunan-an-Nasa-i-Vol-3-English
      4. Sunan-an-Nasa-i-Vol-4-English
      5. Sunan-an-Nasa-i-Vol-5-English
   6. Sunan ibn Majah
      1. Sunan Ibn Majah Vol. 1 – 1-802
      2. Sunan Ibn Majah Vol. 2 – 803-1782
      3. Sunan Ibn Majah Vol. 3 – 1783-2718
      4. Sunan Ibn Majah Vol. 4 – 2719-3656
      5. Sunan Ibn Majah Vol. 5 – 3657-4341

• Other Primary/Major Collections (Primary Hadith books are those books that are collected and written by the author or their students themselves).

1. 1. Muwatta Imam Malik
   2. Majma al-Zawa’id

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