musnad

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English

Etymology

Arabic مُسْنَد (musnad), passive participle of أَسْنَدَ (ʔasnada, “support, evidence”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mus.nɑd/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation: mus‧nad

Noun

musnad (plural musnads)

  1. (science of hadith) A collection of hadith arranged according to the Companion who transmitted them from Muhammad.
    • 1996 July-September, Eerik Dickinson, “Ahmad B. al-Salt and his biography of Abu Hanifa”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 116, number 2:
      Mahmud al-Khwarazmi (593/ 1197-655/1257), a well-travelled Hanafite scholar who ended his career as a teacher in Baghdad, composed a kind of super-musnad of Abu Hanifa.
    • 2001, Eerik Dickinson, The Development of Early Sunnite Ḥadīth Criticism, →ISBN:
      In these cases, the musnad was a scholarly exercise undertaken by some later admirer who would cull all of the hadīth a particular figure quotes in his works and elsewhere and place them in a single book.
    • 2002 July, R. Marston Speight, “Some Formal Characteristics of the Musnad Type of Ḥadīṯ Collection”, in Arabica:
      The type of hadīṯ collection called musnad is one in which compilers brought together reports whose chains of transmission go back to a particular Companion of the Prophet.
    • 2013, Gerhard Böwering, Patricia Crone, Mahan Mirza, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, →ISBN, page 211:
      Such works were called musnads, the most famous of which is the Musnad of Ibn Hanbal (d. 855).
  2. Alternative form of musnud (ceremonial seat or throne)

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