Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal

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.

Description

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

• Majma al-Zawa'id

References

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

External links

• Methodology of Imam Ahmad (Arabic)
• Search Musnad Ahmad Bin Hanbal at Ekabakti.com (Arabic)

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