Musnad
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /mus.nɑd/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Musnad is a noun meaning (science of hadith) A collection of hadith arranged according to the Companion who transmitted them from Muhammad.
Meaning
(science of hadith) A collection of hadith arranged according to the Companion who transmitted them from Muhammad.
More Meanings
- Alternative form of musnud (ceremonial seat or throne)
Example Sentences
Such works were called musnads, the most famous of which is the Musnad of Ibn Hanbal (d. 855).
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.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- musnads
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include arabic, aljamiado, isnad, mucaddam.
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