al-Muntakhab min Musnad Abd ibn Humayd
- Author died
- 249 AH
- Editions
- t Mustafa al-Adawi · t Subhi al-Samarrai
al-Muntakhab min Musnad Abd ibn Humayd (The Selection from the Musnad of Abd ibn Humayd) is an abridged surviving portion of the comprehensive hadith collection compiled by the Transoxanian hadith scholar Abd ibn Humayd (d. 249 AH / 863 CE) .
Composition and Transmission
Abd ibn Humayd originally compiled a large work arranged by narrator (al-Musnad al-Kabir) . As noted by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani and Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Kattani, the text known as al-Muntakhab ("the selection") represents the portion directly audited and transmitted from the author by his student Ibrahim ibn Khuzaym al-Shashi (Ibrahim ibn Khuzaym ibn Qumayr) . Al-Kattani and Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Rudani observed that because it forms an excerpt preserved in a single concise volume (mujallad latif), it lacks the musnads of many well-known Companions that were part of the original larger compilation .
The primary chain of transmission for the work descends from Ibrahim ibn Khuzaym al-Shashi to Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Hamawayh al-Sarakhsi, to Abu al-Hasan Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad al-Dawudi, and then to the prominent traditionist Abu al-Waqt Abd al-Awwal ibn Isa al-Sijzi (458–553 AH) . Abu al-Waqt transmitted the work repeatedly, passing it down to scholars such as Ibn al-Latti (Abu al-Munajja Abd Allah ibn Umar) and Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Mas'ud ibn Bahruz . Ibn Hajar highlighted this transmission in al-Mu'jam al-mufahras, noting that it provided one of the elevated chains of transmission (a'la al-masanid) in his possession, an elevation likewise prized by al-Dhahabi .
Scholarly Reception and Editions
The narrations preserved in al-Muntakhab served as an important source for later hadith compilers documenting supplementary traditions (zawa'id) not found in the standard collections . Ibn Hajar included its unique transmissions in al-Matalib al-aliyah, identifying 174 supplementary traditions, and al-Busiri incorporated its material into Ithaf al-khiyara al-maharah . Extracts containing its three-narrator chains (thulathiyyat) also circulated independently among scholars and survive in manuscript collections in Cairo, Istanbul, and Damascus .
The text has been published in modern edited editions, including one edited by Subhi al-Badri al-Samarra'i and Mahmud Muhammad Khalil al-Sa'idi (Beirut: Alam al-Kutub), and another edited by Mustafa al-Adawi (Kuwait: Dar al-Arqam) .
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