Kanz-ul-Amal

[SilverCrescent]

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Can somebody give me some details /info on the book Kanz-ul-Amal ?

Also, how authentic are the hadith found in this book considered to be ?

[junaid123]

Question: Is the work “Kanz al- `Ummâl” by Alî Muttaqî al-Hindî a reliable source of hadîth?

Answered by Sheikh Muhammad al-Turkî, professor at King Sa`ûd University
Regarding the book Kanz al-`Ummâl, if the questioner is asking if all hadîth mentioned in this book are authentic, then I would have to say: Definately not. The book is full of weak and false hadîth.

If you like to know where the author got the book’s narrations from then I can tell you that this book is, in fact, a rearrangement of al-Jâmi` al-Kabîr and its annexes that was originally compiled by Imam al-Sûyûtî. When Imam al-Sûyûtî wrote his book, his intention was to gather together all the hadîth that he knew, whether they were authentic or not. Al-Sûyûtî openly admitted that there were some false hadîth in it.

Therefore, when the author of Kanz al-`Ummâl rearranged al-Sûyûtî’s book, it was obvious that his book would also contain a number of weak and false hadîth, since the original work on which it was based contained the same

al-Muttaqi al-Hindi (d.975), Kanz al-‘Ummal fi Sunan al-Aqwa wa’l-Af’al, ed. Shaykh Bakri Hayyani, Mu’assasat al-Risalah, Beirut 1409-1989.

Subject arranged collection by an Indian scholar who put together al-Suyuti’s large Hadith-collections al-Jami’ al-Saghir and its Zawa’id into one and arranged them in Fiqh-chapter headings as in a Jami’ or Sunan book. It was one of the largest published works, containing an amazing number of 46.624 narrations. Al-Mutaqqi wrote several works based on al-Suyuti’s collections, but this work is the most comprehensive and its culmination.al-Muttaqi al-Hindi (d.975), Kanz al-‘Ummal fi Sunan al-Aqwa wa’l-Af’al, ed. Shaykh Bakri Hayyani, Mu’assasat al-Risalah, Beirut 1409-1989.

If you want the book wiht takhriz, i may give you in arabic.