The Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq is a very early book of Hadith that was collected by ‘Abd ar-Razzaq. It not only contains a huge number of hadith directly from Muhammad but also from the Sahaba and early Muslim scholars. The title roughly means "The Classified", which suggests the nature of this hadith collection, as it is arranged according to topics of Fiqh.

The hadith in the Musannaf come mainly from three people: Ma'mar Ibn Rashid (d. 153/770), Ibn Jurayj, and Sufyan al-Thawri. There are also relatively small numbers of hadith from Syfyan Ibn 'Uyayna, Abu Hanifa, and Malik Ibn Anas among a large number of other people. Most of them are said to have been compilers of hadith books in their own right.

An article by Harald Motzki appeared in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies that mentioned the Musannaf of `Abd al-Razzaq al-San`ani as a source of authentic ahadith of the first century AH. The conclusion of the author was, "While studying the Musannaf of `Abd al-Razzaq, I came to the conclusion that the theory championed by Goldziher, Schacht, and in their footsteps, many others - myself included - which in general, reject hadith literature as a historically reliable sources for the first century AH, deprives the historical study of early Islam of an important and a useful type of source.

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See also

• List of Sunni books