Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal


Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal is a collection of hadith compiled by the Islamic scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal, to whom the Hanbali fiqh is attributed.

Description

It is one of the largest hadith book written in Islamic History containing more than twenty seven thousand hadiths according to Makaba Shamila. It is organized into compilations of the hadiths narrated by each Companion, starting with the 'asharah mubashsharah. This highlights their status and the efforts they made to preserve the ahadeeth of the Messenger of Allah.
It is said by some that Ahmad ibn Hanbal made a comment in regard to his book which reads as follows: "I have only included a hadith in this book if it had been used as evidence by some of the scholars." Abu al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzi ironically claimed that the Musnad contains hadiths that are fabricated by interpolation, which were said to be nine Hadiths by some, or fifteen hadiths by some others. However, it is agreed that the hadith that are suspected to be fabricated are not new hadiths that are creations of a dubious narrator's imagination.

Publications

The book has been published by many organizations around the world, including: