The Treasures of the Doers of Good Deeds (, ), better known simply as Kanz al-Ummal, is a Sunni hadith collection, collected by the Islamic scholar Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik al-Hindi (1472 AD– 1567 AD).

Description

Kanz al-Ummal is an arrangement of Jalaluddin al-Suyuti's work, Jami' al-Kabir. It contains around 46,000 hadith, which are an assortment of varying reliability. It means that the Ahadith found in it may be authentic, weak or fabricated.

Editions

First published by Dā’irat al-Ma‘ārif Hyderabad Deccan, edited by the scholars of Jamia Nizamia. Published by Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmīyah, Lebanon, 1998, edited by Mahmud Umar al-Dumyati.

See also List of Sunni books

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