Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah () is the second largest hadith collection ever compiled and one of the most known musannaf compiled by Ibn Abi Shaybah (159H-235H / 775–849 CE). He curated reports of Prophet Muhammad, his predecessors and companions. Since the loss of imam Baqi ibn Makhlad's Musnad after the Spanish Reconquista, Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah remained the world's biggest hadith compilation.
Description It is the second largest compilations of Hadiths, including more than thirty seven thousand (37,000) Hadiths. He listed 125 Hadiths which Abu Hanifa contradicted Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah : Chapter : "Book of the Refutation of Abu Hanifa"
Ibn Abi Shaybah narrated reports from predecessors about each subject area, including the controversial topics of discussions between Muslims, like the Battle of Siffin, the Battle of the Camel, the Battle of Nahrawan and the death of the 3rd Caliph, Uthman. It includes Ahadeeth classified as Sahih (sound), marfoo‘ (attributed to Muhammad), mawqoof (attributed to the Companions), and munqaṭiʻ (with discontinuity in chain of transmission).
Multiple manuscripts have been preserved (some printed more recently in Delhi, India and volumes of much more earlier manuscripts also exist) and some may differ.Pellat, Ch. ‘Ibn Abī S̲h̲ayba’. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, edited by P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs, P.J. Bearman (Volumes X, XI, XII), Th. Bianquis (Volumes X, XI, XII), et al. Accessed November 20, 2019. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_3055.Ibn Abi Shayba vii, 127, n.1 (K. al-Sayd)See for example: https://archive.org/details/m-0001
See also List of Sunni books Kutub al-Sittah Sahih Muslim Jami al-Tirmidhi Sunan Abu Dawood Either: Sunan ibn Majah, Muwatta Malik
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