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The Musnad of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal: How It Was Composed and What Distinguishes It from the Six Books
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Christopher Melchert
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July 27, 2005
Abstract
The Musnad dictated by Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (d. Baghdad, 241/855) to his son Ἁbd Allāh (d. Baghdad, 290/903) is the largest of the great ninth-century collections of ḥadῑṯ to survive. It did not gain a place among “the Six Books” that became more or less the Sunnī canon of ḥadῑṯ 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-Ḥusaynī’s directory of men in the ten books.[1] What follows is an attempt to determine above all how it was collected and what makes it so much longer than other collections.
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Published Online: 2005-07-27
Published in Print: 2005-04-01
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