Al-Mujtaba of al-Nasai (al-Sunan al-Sughra, Dar al-Tasil Edition)

About this book

This Dar al-Tasil edition of al-Mujtaba min al-Sunan, known as al-Sunan al-Sughra, by Imam Abu Abd al-Rahman Ahmad ibn Shuayb al-Nasai, is a modern scholarly publication prepared by the publisher’s Center for Research and Information Technology. It establishes the text against relied-upon sources, records significant manuscript variants, verifies narrators’ names and wording, and preserves al-Nasai’s arrangement of chapters and his repetition of reports when their routes, wording, or legal implications differ. Al-Mujtaba’s importance among the Sunan collections also reflects al-Nasai’s critical method: he presents variant routes, sometimes notes chain differences, prefers one narration over another, and comments on certain narrators and reports. It is therefore an important source for studying hidden defects and variant transmissions, not merely a collection of legal hadiths.