Musnad Abd Allah ibn Umar li-l-Tarsusi
- Author died
- 273 AH
- Editions
- Dār al-Nafāʼis
Musnad Abd Allah ibn Umar (Musnad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar) is a specialized hadith work compiled by the traditionist Abu Umayya al-Tarsusi (d. 273 AH / 886 CE), gathering prophetic traditions narrated on the authority of the Companion Abd Allah ibn Umar.
Transmission and Preservation
The text has survived as a preserved part (juzʾ) of Abu Umayya's larger Musnad transmissions. One prominent line of transmission recorded on the manuscript runs from Abu Umayya via Abu Amr Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Hakim al-Madini, then Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Jawlah al-Abhari, to Abu Abd Allah al-Qasim ibn al-Fadl al-Thaqafi, then the traditionist Abu Tahir al-Silafi, down to Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Mahmud ibn Ahmad al-Sabuni.
Another transmission path preserved in the text runs through Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Habib ibn Abd al-Malik al-Hada'iri from Abu Umayya, transmitted onward by Abu Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ibn Uthman ibn Abi Nasr (heard in Safar 420 AH), to Abu al-Fadl Ahmad ibn Ali ibn al-Furat (read in Dhu al-Qi'da 490 AH), and received by Abu Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Darani in 558 AH.
Contents and Subjects
The collection documents reports narrated through various intermediate transmitters from Ibn Umar, spanning ritual practices, legal rulings, and ethics:
- Ritual Prayer and Purification: Reports concerning the Prophet's ﷺ obligatory and voluntary prayers in resident status and while traveling, the night prayer (qiyam al-layl) in units of two, teaching the tashahhud in prayer, performing ablution (wudu) before sleeping while in a state of ritual impurity (janaba), and ablution after consuming camel meat.
- Pilgrimage and Legal Injunctions: Ibn Umar's adherence to the Prophet's ﷺ practices during the circumambulation of the Kaaba—touching both the Yemeni Corner and the Black Stone—and wearing tanned, hairless sandals (al-niʿāl al-sibtiyya); rulings prohibiting the sale of unripened fruit; and the prohibition of certain vessels for brewing drinks.
- Social and Ethical Teachings: Narrations describing the core tenets of Islam and faith (iman); the virtue of the adhan and the status of muezzins; filial piety and the mutual rights between parents and children; warnings against slander, rancor, wailing over the dead, and greed; and accounts of Ibn Umar's interactions with political events during his lifetime.
Editions
The work was edited and published under the title Musnad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar by Ahmad Ratib Armush, issued by Dar al-Nafa'is in Beirut (1393 AH).
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