Musnad Ibn Abi Awfa li-Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Said
- Author died
- 318 AH
- Editions
- Maktabat al-Rushd
Musnad Ibn Abi Awfa (The Hadith Collection of Ibn Abi Awfa) is a specialized hadith work compiled by the Baghdadi traditionist Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Sa'id (d. 318 AH / 930 CE), dedicated to gathering the narrations of the Companion Abd Allah ibn Abi Awfa .
Content and Method
The work belongs to the monographic musnad genre (ajza' hadithiyya), wherein a compiler compiles all accessible transmission pathways and reports traced back to a single Companion. In this collection, Ibn Sa'id records the hadiths of Abd Allah ibn Abi Awfa through various lines of transmission, including those of his students and subsequent narrators such as Ismail ibn Abi Khalid, al-A'mash, Mansur, al-Qasim al-Shaybani, and Mudrik ibn Imarah .
In addition to narrating texts with full chains of transmission (isnad), Ibn Sa'id incorporates critical remarks on the defects (ilal) of certain chains. For instance, after recording a narration through Yusuf ibn Bahr from Sufyan ibn Uyayna from Ismail ibn Abi Khalid from Ibn Abi Awfa concerning the Prophet's ﷺ combining of the pilgrimage and umrah, Ibn Sa'id remarked that the report was in fact transmitted by Ibn Uyayna from Ismail from Abd Allah ibn Abi Qatada in a mursal (hurried/broken) form .
The narrations compiled in the work encompass legal rulings, theological warnings, and ethical guidance. Among the subjects documented are prophetic prohibitions regarding fermented beverages (nabidh), statements concerning major sins and faith, and descriptions of deviant factions such as the Kharijites .
Transmission and Publication
The collection was preserved and transmitted through classical hadith scholars via direct audition (sama') and authorization (ijazah). One prominent line of transmission went from Ibn Sa'id through Abu al-Qasim Ubayd Allah ibn Hubaba, and later through traditionists such as Ibn al-Jawzi .
Manuscript copies of the work survived in institutions such as the al-Zahiriyya Library in Damascus, and the text was subsequently published in Riyadh in 1408 AH (1988 CE) .
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