musnad

plural musnads

1. scienceA collection of hadith arranged according to the Companion who transmitted them from Muhammad.

   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

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   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

   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

2. alternativeAlternative form of musnud (ceremonial seat or throne)

1. The Ancient South Arabian alphabet, which branched from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in about the 9th century BC.

   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

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   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

   Since the characteristics of Musnad handwriting is not famous, and some of the readers may be unfamiliar with these scripts, a brief description of the important aspects of Musnad will be presented in this section.

   2011, Mohammed A. Qatran, Template matching method for recognition Musnad characters based on correlation analysis