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Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “very early book of hadith that was collected by ‘abd ar-razzaq as-san‘ani”. Today it says “early hadith collection compiled by the yemeni hadith scholar ʽabd al-razzaq al-sanʽani”.
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Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq al-Sanʿani ( Arabic : مصنف عبد الرزاق الصنعاني , romanized : Muṣannaf ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Sanʿānī ) is an early hadith collection compiled by the Yemeni hadith scholar ʽAbd al-Razzaq al-Sanʽani (744–827). As a collection of the musannaf genre, it contains over 18,000 traditions arranged in topical order.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “very early book of hadith that was collected by ‘abd ar-razzaq as-san‘ani”. Today it says “early hadith collection compiled by the yemeni hadith scholar ʽabd al-razzaq al-sanʽani”. Read the current article and compare.
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very early book of hadith that was collected by ‘abd ar-razzaq as-san‘ani
Now
early hadith collection compiled by the yemeni hadith scholar ʽabd al-razzaq al-sanʽani
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