Al-Sunan al-Wusta

Al-Sunan al-Wusta

Author	Al-Bayhaqi
Original title	السنن الوسطى
Country	Lebanon
Language	Arabic
Subject	Shafi'i jurisprudence
Genre	Hadith collection
Published	Dar al-Kotob al-'Ilmiyya
Publication date	2010
Pages	4000
ISBN	2745114522

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Al-Sunan al-Wusta, (Arabic: السنن الوسطى), or Marifat al-Sunan wa-al-Athar (Arabic: معرفة السنن والآثار) is a hadith work compiled by Imam al-Bayhaqi (384 AH – 458 AH).^[1] It is multi-volume book which provides a compilation of textual evidences for Shafi'i jurisprudence.^[2]

Description

This book is considered to be one of the most important Shafi’i books, as it collected the hadith evidence of the school of thought, a way out for it from the Sahih and Sunnah, showing its methods, the reason for what was faltered from it, and the reason for Al-Shafi’i inferring it if it was faltered. Al-Bayhaqi also explained the doctrines of the followers and those after them, such as Abu Thawr, Al-Hasan al-Basri and Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, and he arranged it according to the arrangement of Al-Muzani. The old sayings of Al-Shafi’i are sometimes cited, and the book has some comments from the transcription of a hadith, the translation of a scholar, and attribution to a reference.^[3][4]

Reception

Ibn al-Subki said: "No Shafi'i jurist can do without it," while his father, Taqi al-Din al-Subki said: "He meant by the title: Al-Shafi'i's Knowledge of the Sunnahs and Reports (Athar)."^[2]

A dream of al-Shafi'i carrying sections of this book in his hand occurred to one of the right-acting men when al-Bayhaqi was writing Ma'rifat as-Sunan wal-Athar. He was stating, "I have read them," or, alternatively, "I have written seven sections of the Book of the jurist Ahmad (al-Bayhaqi)."^[5]

See also

• List of Sunni books
• Sunan al-Kubra
• Shu'ab al-Iman
• Nihayat al-Matlab fi Dirayat al-Madhhab

References

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