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2. Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih Is a Shia Hadith collection by the famous scholar Abu Jafar
Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Babuyah al Qummi commonly known as ibn Babuyah or Al shaykh
al-Saduq. This
The collection has just over 9000 Hadiths.
3. Tahzib al-Ahkam has been compiled by the shia scholar Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Hassan
Tusi
commonly known as sheikh Tusi. This work comprises close to 13600 Hadiths.6
4. Al-Istibsar is a Hadith collection also by sheikh Tusi. It includes the same topics as Tahzib
al-Ahkam
but in a shorter form.
All of these four collections were compiled during the period from the mid-fourth to
mid-fifth centuries Hijri.
O/N 2019 (22)
2. (a) Write a detailed account of the Musannaf and Musnad collections of
Hadith. [10]
Answer (Learn and write):
The collection Hadiths became very important after the Prophet’s (pbuh) death. Two
techniques were were
mainly adopted resulting in two types of collections i.e Musannaf and Musnad.
The first organized compilations of Hadiths that had developed during the first two centuries
of Islam are called
Musannaf hadith collections. They are defined by their arrangement of content according to
topic e.g
Zakat, Prayer, purity, inheritance etc and constitute a major category within the class of all
such works.
Musannaf is from the Arabic verb sannafa, meaning to arrange by chapter, and so has the
literal meaning of
something that is sectionally arranged.
The Muwatta by Imam Malik is an early example of an earliest Musannaf collection. He was
the founder of