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musnad

Syllables: mus·nad/mus.nɑd/

musnad noun: a collection of hadith arranged according to the Companion who transmitted them from Muhammad. Also the alternative form of musnud.

Noun

musnad (plural musnads)

  1. A collection of hadith arranged according to the Companion who transmitted them from Muhammad.
    • 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.1996 July-September, Eerik Dickinson, “Ahmad B. al-Salt and his biography of Abu Hanifa”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 116, number 2
    • 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.2001, Eerik Dickinson, The Development of Early Sunnite Ḥadīth Criticism, →ISBN

Proper noun capitalized: Musnad

Musnad

  1. The Ancient South Arabian alphabet, which branched from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in about the 9th century BC.
    • With a stretch of imagination, some Nabataean shapes can be made to resemble those of Jazm, but so do many Musnad shapes. Still, as stated earlier, shape's similarity is not the only indication of a script origin, especially since Nabataean, Aramaic, and Musnad, share the same roots.2011, Saad D. Abulhab, DeArabizing Arabia, →ISBN
    • But he wrote a message in the Himyar script (Musnad) with his knife on the saddle of a passing camel, and the message eventually reached his tribe in Hadhramaut.2011, Freya Stark, The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut, →ISBN, page 203

Also used as

musnad is also the alternative form of musnud.

Examples of musnad in a sentence

  • 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.2002 July, R. Marston Speight, “Some Formal Characteristics of the Musnad Type of Ḥadīṯ Collection”, in Arabica:
  • Such works were called musnads, the most famous of which is the Musnad of Ibn Hanbal (d. 855).2013, Gerhard Böwering, Patricia Crone, Mahan Mirza, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, →ISBN, page 211:

Forms of musnad

pluralmusnads

Origin of musnad

Arabic مُسْنَد (musnad), passive participle of أَسْنَدَ (ʔasnada, “support, evidence”).

From Arabic مُسْنَد (musnad), from Old South Arabian 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵 (ms³nd).

Questions about musnad

What does musnad mean?
Musnad means a collection of hadith arranged according to the Companion who transmitted them from Muhammad.
How do you use musnad in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is musnad?
Musnad can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce musnad?
Musnad is pronounced /mus.nɑd/.
What is the plural of musnad?
The plural of musnad is musnads.

Words near musnad in the dictionary

  1. Musloid
  2. Musloids
  3. musmon
  4. musmons
  5. musn't
  6. musnad
  7. musnads
  8. musnud
  9. musnuds
  10. muso
  11. Musof

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