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Musnad¹

Where it comes from

From Arabic مُسْنَد (musnad), from Old South Arabian 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵 (ms³nd).

proper noun

  1. The Ancient South Arabian alphabet, which branched from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in about the 9th century BC. With a stretch of imagination, some Nabataean shapes can be made to resemble those of Jazm, but so do many Musnad shapes. Still, as stated earlier, shape's similarity is not the only indication of a script origin, especially since Nabataean, Aramaic, and Musnad, share the same roots.

musnad²

  • /mus.nɑd/

Where it comes from

Arabic مُسْنَد (musnad), passive participle of أَسْنَدَ (ʔasnada, “support, evidence”).

noun musnads

  1. of hadith A collection of hadith arranged according to the Companion who transmitted them from Muhammad. Mahmud al-Khwarazmi (593/ 1197-655/1257), a well-travelled Hanafite scholar who ended his career as a teacher in Baghdad, composed a kind of super-musnad of Abu Hanifa.
  2. alternative Alternative form of musnud (ceremonial seat or throne)

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@misc{musnad_2026,
  title = {musnad},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/musnad},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}