Christopher Melchert
The Musnad of A?mad ibn ?anbal: How It Was Composed and What Distinguishes It from the Six Books
The Musnad dictated by A?mad ibn ?anbal (d. Baghdad, 241/855) to his son ?bd All?h (d. Baghdad, 290/903) is the largest of the great ninth-century collections of ?ad?? to survive. It did not gain a place among “the Six Books” that became more or less the Sunn? canon of ?ad?? from the tenth to the twelfth century C. E. But it was included in most lists that went beyond the Six Books; for example, al-?usayn?’s directory of men in the ten books.Al-?usayn?, al-Ta?kira bi-ma?rifat ri??l al-kutub al-?a?ara, ed. Rif?at Fawz? ?bd al-Mu??alib (Cairo 1418/1997), covering the six plus a collection from each eponym, mainly Ab? ?an?fa, M?lik, al-??fi??, and A?mad ibn ?anbal.
What follows is an attempt to determine above all how it was collected and what makes it so much longer than other collections.
Der Islam, Walter de Gruyter
Print ISSN: 0021-1818
Volume: 82, 04/2005
Pages: 32 - 51
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