musnad

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

musnad (plural musnads)

1. A collection of hadith arranged according to the Companion who transmitted them from Muhammad.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 2001, Eerik Dickinson, The Development of Early Sunnite Ḥadīth Criticism, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2002 July, R. Marston Speight, “Some Formal Characteristics of the Musnad Type of Ḥadīṯ Collection”, in Arabica:

     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.

   • 2013, Gerhard Böwering, ‎Patricia Crone, ‎& Mahan Mirza, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, →ISBN, page 211:

     Such works were called musnads, the most famous of which is the Musnad of Ibn Hanbal (d. 855).

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

• Dumans, Mundas, dunams, maunds, undams