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On Maktaba Shamela there is a book titled'

مسند أبي حنيفة رواية الحصكفي
Musnad Abi Hanifa, the transmission of Haskafi

but inside the book I didn't find any chains from Imam Abu Hanifa to us. So I came here to ask is this book authentically attributed to the hand of Imam Abu Hanifa رحمه الله

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    "but inside the book I didn't find any chains from Imam Abu Hanifa to us" this is an expectation any hadith book will fail to achieve. Because the person who is sharing his hadith narrations or knowledge is usually the author (the person referring to) or one of his students.
    – Medi1Saif ♦
    Commented Aug 11, 2022 at 18:25
  • thanks for the response but then how can a hadith book be authentically attributed to the alleged author
    – Hisham
    Commented Aug 12, 2022 at 1:46
  • This is a question which was addressed in Can any hadith truly be called sahih anymore.
    – Medi1Saif ♦
    Commented Aug 12, 2022 at 8:44
  • Are you referring to this copy? If so what imam al-Haskafi did was: he compiled the hadith as if abu Hanifa is citing it. Note that a Musnad usually is a book in which the order of narrations is based on the names of narrators of the author not on topics as arranged by al-Haskafi (Hanafi died 650 a.H.) in his compilation. There are at least two more known Musnad's of abu Hanifa one was compiled by abu N'uaym (336-430 a.H. who's a shafi'i scholar) the author of Hilyat al-Awliya' and the version of al-Harithi (Hanafi 258 a.H. - 340 a.H.).
    – Medi1Saif ♦
    Commented May 8 at 7:01
  • Therefore the sanad part from abu Hanifa (died 150 a.H.) and al-Haskafi (died 650 a.H.) is missing. Thus for a layman it is hard to check the authenticity of al-Haskafi's "version". However, a printed Pakistani edition includes a commentary and some takhreej of ahadith. Further scholars among them a-Dhahabi say that al-Harithi's version is full of quotes that no reasonable man would attribute to abu Hanifa. Al-Harithi was known to practice a certain kind of wada' one could say he performed "permutation" on trustworthy narrators so he attributed ahadith to wrong narrators of similar level.
    – Medi1Saif ♦
    Commented May 8 at 7:36

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Muhaddith Zubair Ali Zai said the book was written by Abu Muhammad Abdullah Bin Muhammad Bin Yaqub Al Harithi and it is mentioned in Mizan al-Itidal (Book by Dhahabi) that he was a fabricator and wrote a book named Musnad Abu Hanifa.

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