Musnad of Abu Dawud al-Tayalisi

The Musnad of Abu Dawud al-Tayalisi is attributed to Sulayman ibn Dawud ibn al-Jarud al-Tayalisi (d. 204 AH). The editor holds that the book is not his own composition. It is a set of sessions that Yunus ibn Habib heard from him, which Abu Mas'ud al-Razi arranged for Yunus, as the editor reports from Abu Nu'aym and al-Dhahabi. ¹

The editor gives three grounds for attributing the book to al-Tayalisi. The chain of transmission at the start of the copies runs back to al-Tayalisi through sound hearing. Many recorded hearings are written at the end of each part. And the reports that the imams cite from al-Tayalisi through Yunus ibn Habib match the musnad exactly, as al-Bayhaqi and Abu Nu'aym show. ¹

The edition gives about 2,890 reports. Al-Tayalisi is said to have narrated a hundred thousand hadiths in Khurasan, so the musnad is a small part of his transmission. The book has a few reports from Yunus ibn Habib through other shaykhs. ²

Dar Hajar for Printing, Publishing and Distribution, Giza, in partnership with the Centre for Arab and Islamic Research and Studies at Dar Hajar, edited by Dr. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Turki. Volume 1 is dated 1419 AH and volume 2 is dated 1420 AH, both 1999 CE. ³

The scanned portion of volume 2 includes the musnad of Abu Mas'ud al-Badri. Its first numbered report in the scan is 641, about a man who prays behind an imam who prolongs the prayer. ⁴

• Because the book is a set of sessions heard by Yunus ibn Habib, the arrangement should not be credited to al-Tayalisi alone without that qualification.
• Hadith numbers are those of the edition scanned.
• The two byte-identical scans of volume 1 were read once.