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 / 775âÂÂ849 CE). He curated reports of Muhammad, his predecessors and companions.
Due to the lost of Baqi ibn Makhlad's Musnad after the Spanish Reconquista, Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah remains the world's biggest hadith compilation.
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
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), marfooâ (attributed to Muhammad S.A.W), mawqoof (attributed to the Companions), and munqaá¹Âiû (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.