al-Jami al-Sahih lil-Sunan wa al-Masanid
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al-Jami al-Sahih lil-Sunan wa al-Masanid (The Authentic Comprehensive Collection of Sunan and Musnads) is a contemporary multi-volume hadith encyclopedia compiled by the Palestinian scholar Suhayb Abd al-Jabbar, completed in 1435 AH / 2014 CE, that gathers authentic prophetic traditions arranged thematically into a unified text .
Background and Purpose
The author, a resident of Nablus in the West Bank holding a licentiate in Islamic jurisprudence and its legal theory (usul al-fiqh) and a former mosque imam, conceived the work while reading al-Mughni by Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi . Noting that jurisprudential disputes frequently arose when jurists were unaware of authentic hadiths or relied on weak narrations, he resolved to compile the authentic Sunnah into a single comprehensive, non-repetitive thematic collection before delving into comparative legal rulings . His aim was to provide a pure corpus of sound traditions that combines the authenticity of the primary collections with comprehensive thematic coverage .
Scope and Sources
The encyclopedia was compiled from an examination of more than 100,000 hadiths, which the author filtered and condensed into approximately 15,000 authentic narrations after eliminating repetitions and weak reports . The work incorporates:
- The entirety of Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim .
- All authentic narrations found in Sahih Ibn Khuzayma, Sahih Ibn Hibban, the Four Sunan (Sunan Abi Dawud, Jami al-Tirmidhi, Sunan al-Nasa'i, and Sunan Ibn Majah), and Musnad Ahmad .
- All traditions graded as authentic (sahih) by Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani across his published works .
Methodology and Structure
The book is organized topically into thematic chapters, beginning with the first book of creed (Kitab al-Aqida al-Awwal) . Rather than listing every distinct chain and variant separately, the compiler synthesizes the unique, sound wordings across various transmission paths of a hadith into a single integrated narrative text . When a hadith is narrated by multiple Companions, he quotes one Companion's name in the text and omits the rest to avoid redundancy .
In the footnotes, he cites hadith evaluations by modern scholars such as al-Albani and Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut, as well as classical explanations of difficult vocabulary and legal commentary from works such as Awn al-Ma'bud and Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi . Although the book is almost exclusively restricted to authentic hadiths, the author occasionally includes slightly weak narrations in specific legal domains—such as commercial transactions (mu'amalat)—when prioritizing a weak report over unsubstantiated legal deduction (ijtihad), while explicitly flagging each as weak (da'if) in a distinct color .
Related Works and Completion
The compiler prepared a companion work titled al-Musnad al-Mawdu'i al-Jami lil-Kutub al-Ashara (The Thematic Musnad Compendium of the Ten Books), which functions as an index and detailed source attribution (takhrij) for all the chains, variants, supporting reports (shawahid), and scholarly gradings underlying the text of al-Jami al-Sahih lil-Sunan wa al-Masanid .
The compilation was completed on Thursday, 18 Shawwal 1435 AH (15 August 2014 CE) and spans 38 volumes . The author made the publication and reproduction rights open to all Muslims on the condition that the scientific text remain unaltered .
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