Musnad Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz lil-Baghandi
- Author died
- 312 AH
- Editions
- Mu’assasat ‘Ulūm al-Qur’ān
Musnad Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (The Musnad of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz) is a specialized hadith collection compiled by the Iraqi hadith scholar Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Baghandi (d. 312 AH / 924 CE), dedicated to gathering the traditions and reports transmitted through the Umayyad caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz.
Content and Structure
The work is organized as a musnad, focusing specifically on the narrations of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, documenting both the authorities from whom he received hadiths and the individuals who transmitted them on his authority. In his biographical dictionary Ikmal Tahdhib al-Kamal, Alaa al-Din Mughultay cited the work extensively when documenting Umar's transmissions.
According to al-Baghandi's compilation, Umar's teachers and sources of narration included:
- Companions and early figures such as Tamim al-Dari, Mu'awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan, Aisha, and Asma bint Umays.
- Prominent Successors, including Salim ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar, Aban ibn Uthman ibn Affan, Abu Burdah ibn Abi Musa al-Ash'ari, Abu Sallam al-Habashi, Sa'id ibn Khalid ibn Amr, Qays ibn al-Harith, Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Hazm, his father Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan, Abd Allah ibn Mawhab, Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Utbah, Salma (the client of Marwan ibn al-Hakam), Ubadah ibn Abd Allah, Irik ibn Malik, and an unnamed intermediary from al-Sunabihi.
The collection also records various transmitters who related narrations from Umar, such as Yazid ibn Muhammad, Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Aqil, Afif al-Madani, a descendant of Talhah ibn Ubayd Allah, al-Abbas ibn Salim, Abd al-Aziz ibn al-Abbas, Abbad ibn Kathir, and Sulayman ibn Asim. The narrations encompass legal rulings, acts of worship—such as prostrations during Quranic recitation—and historical interactions during Umar's governance.
Transmission and Reception
The book was preserved and transmitted from al-Baghandi through his student, the hadith memorizer Abu al-Husayn Muhammad ibn al-Muzaffar. It passed through successive generations of scholars, notably recorded through the transmission line running from al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Jawhari to Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Baqi al-Ansari, and subsequently through Ibn Tabarzad, as documented in transmission registries such as Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti's Inshab al-Kuthub fi Ansab al-Kutub. Later hadith commentators and critics, including Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani and Ibn Sayyid al-Nas, frequently cited and evaluated its chains in their hadith commentaries and extract collections (takhrij).
Editions
The work has been published in modern scholarly editions:
- Edited with critical annotations and an appendix (tadhyil) by Muhammad Awwamah, published by Dar al-Da'wah in Aleppo (1397 AH / 1977 CE) and later reprinted by Mu'assasat Ulum al-Qur'an.
- Edited by Badi' al-Din al-Rashidi, published by al-Maktaba al-Faruqiyya in Pakistan.
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