musnad

name

1. The Ancient South Arabian alphabet, which branched from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in about the 9th century BC.

   “With a stretch of imagination, some Nabataean shapes can be made to resemble those of Jazm, but so do many Musnad shapes. Still, as stated earlier, shape's similarity is not the only indication of a script origin, especially since Nabataean, Aramaic, and Musnad, share the same roots.”

   “But he wrote a message in the Himyar script (Musnad) with his knife on the saddle of a passing camel, and the message eventually reached his tribe in Hadhramaut.”

   “Since the characteristics of Musnad handwriting is not famous, and some of the readers may be unfamiliar with these scripts, a brief description of the important aspects of Musnad will be presented in this section.”

noun

1. A collection of hadith arranged according to the Companion who transmitted them from Muhammad.

   “Mahmud al-Khwarazmi (593/ 1197-655/1257), a well-travelled Hanafite scholar who ended his career as a teacher in Baghdad, composed a kind of super-musnad of Abu Hanifa.”

   “In these cases, the musnad was a scholarly exercise undertaken by some later admirer who would cull all of the hadīth a particular figure quotes in his works and elsewhere and place them in a single book.”

   “The type of hadīṯ collection called musnad is one in which compilers brought together reports whose chains of transmission go back to a particular Companion of the Prophet.”

   “Such works were called musnads, the most famous of which is the Musnad of Ibn Hanbal (d. 855).”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of musnud (ceremonial seat or throne)