Kanz al-Ummal

Kanz al-Ummal Fee Sunan al-Aqwal wa al-Af'al (Arabic: كنز العمال في سنن الأقوال والأفعال, kanz al-ʿummāl fī sunan al-aqwāl wa l-afʿāl), known in English as Treasures of the Doers of Good Deeds, is a Sunni hadith collection, collected by the Islamic scholar Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik al-Hindi (1472 CE - 1567 CE).

Description

Kanz al-Ummal is an arrangement of Jalaluddin al-Suyuti's work, Jami' al-Kabir. It contains around 46,000 hadith, which are an assortment of varying reliability. Hadith found are authentic and it is written by a big Islamic scholar of his time.

Editions

• First Published by Dā’irat al-Ma‘ārif Hyderabad Deccan, edited by the scholars of Jamia Nizamia.
• Published by Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmīyah, Lebanon, 1998, edited by Mahmud Umar al-Dumyati.

See also

• List of Sunni books

References