() is a hadith collection attributed to Islamic scholar al-ShafiâÂÂi.
Shah Abd Al-Aziz Ad-Dehlawi writes âÂÂThis Musnad is used to designate the marfà «â hadëth which ash-ShÃÂfiâÂÂë related to his companions. Those of them which reached Abul-'Abbas Muhammad ibn YaâÂÂqà «b al-Asamm from what he heard from Rabi' ibn SulaymÃÂn of the KitÃÂb al-Umm and al-Mabsà «t were collected by him in one place; he called it the Musnad ash-ShÃÂfiâÂÂë.
The book contains almost two thousand (2000) hadiths according to Al-Maktaba Al-Shamela. It is one of the oldest Musnad (a kind of Hadith book) written. The Musnad (àóÃÂï) are collections of Hadiths which are classified by narrators, and therefore by Sahabas (companions of Muhammad). The collection is not directly the work of the Imam, but rather it was written by later scholars who were students of al-Rabi', the inheritor of al-Shafi'i as ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani explains.
Shah Abd Al-Azëz Ad-Dehlawi writes âÂÂRabi' Ibn SulaymÃÂn kept the company of ash-ShÃÂfiâÂÂë, took from him, and listened to all but four hadëth from the first section which al-Buwayti related from ash-ShafiâÂÂë.
This Musnad is not arranged in the same order as the Musnads nor is it arranged in chapters. He collected it without any order or organisation. There were a lot of repetitions in it.âÂÂ
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