Musnad al-Khumaydi

Musnad al-Khumaydi ( Arabic: مسند الحميدي ) is a collection of hadiths , Muslim legends about the life and work of the Prophet Muhammad , collected by Imam al-Khumaydi .

Musnad al-Khumaydi
Arab. مسند الحميدي
Musnad al-Khumaydi
Authors	Abu Bakr al-Khumaydi
Original language	Arabic
Describes	early Middle Ages
Genre	historical chronicle
Volume	about 1300 hadiths
Characters	Prophet Muhammad and his Companions
Primary sources	oral retelling of contemporaries
Confirmed by	Sahih al-Bukhari , Sahih Muslim

The authorship of the book is confirmed by the fact that this musnad became known under the name “Musnad al-Khumaydi”, as well as the fact that all hadiths transmitted in the collection go back personally to Imam al-Khumaydi. The sources of hadith in the book are teachers and sheikhs al-Khumaidi (for example, Sufyan ibn Uyayna).

In Musnad al-Khumaydi, about 1300 hadiths were collected from 182 associates of Muhammad, of which 582 hadiths correspond to the conditions of the Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim , 96 conditions of only al-Bukhari and 152 conditions of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (that is, 830 hadiths of 1300 are reliable - sahih ). In addition to reliable hadiths, the Musnad also contains good ( hasan ) and weak hadiths ( daif ). According to later researchers, the number of weak hadiths is 7% of the total. This indicates a high degree of reliability and trust in the traditions of al-Khumaydi among Sunni hadith scholars . Al-Khumaidi was one of the strong students of Sufyan ibn Uyayna, was a friend of al-Shafi'ya , a teacher of al-Bukhari, al-Zuhli, Abu Zura ar-Razi and Abu Hatima ar-Razi ^[1] .