Musnad al-Shamians

Translation

The book “Musnad al-Shamiyyin” by Imam al-Tabarani is one of the books of hadith texts, and it collects the narrations of one narrator, Ibrahim bin Abi Abla. The book begins by mentioning his virtues and news, then lists the hadiths that he narrated on the authority of the Companions and followers, such as Anas bin Malik, Abu Umamah, Ubadah bin al-Samit, Omar bin Abdul Aziz, and others. The book falls within the hadith works that focus on the narrations of a specific narrator from the people of the Levant, which makes it an important source for studying the chain of transmission and texts in that class.