City-centred musnads and the example of Musnad al-Kūfiyyīn within the framework of Ahmad b. Hanbal's work named Musnad

In our study, the section of Musnad al-Kūfiyyīn in the content of Ahmad b. Hanbal's al-Musnad has been analysed in terms of rāvi and mawī, and the extent to which the relevant section is reflected in the works of al-Jāmi's of al-Bukhārī, Muslim and Tirmidhī, Abu Dāwud, al-Nasā'i and Ibn Mājah's al-Sunān, known as Qutub al-Sitta, has been examined in a comparative manner. The thesis consists of an introduction and two chapters. The introduction is devoted to the classification types of hadith literature and concludes with the methods followed in the formation of musannafat in this field. In the first chapter, the types of classification, musnads, city-centred musnads and Ahmad b. Hanbal's al-Musnad are discussed. Hanbal's al-Musnad, Musnad al-Maqiyyîn, Musnad al-Madaniyyîn, Musnad al-Shāmiyyîn, Musnad al-Basriyyîn and Musnad al-Kūfiyyîn, the narrators, the narrations they narrated and their numbers, as well as the Companions who are repeated in each chapter or whose names are repeated in other musnads are tried to be shown in tables. In the second chapter, the topics covered by the hadiths in the Musnad al-Kūfiyyīn and the distribution of the aforementioned narrations in the books of the Qur'ān al-Sitta have been analysed in the form of book (chapter title), chapter and hadīth numbers and the data obtained have been presented in tables starting from al-Bukhārī's al-Jāmi al-Sahīh and also subjected to analysis.