freococo/musannaf_ibn_abi_shaybah

Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah (English & Arabic)

This dataset contains the complete digital collection of the Musannaf of Ibn Abi Shaybah (d. 235 AH), one of the earliest and most significant compilations of Hadith, Athar (sayings of the Companions), and legal rulings in Islamic history.

The dataset includes approximately 37,943 narrations with their original Arabic text and corresponding English translations.

Dataset Structure

Each entry in the dataset contains the following fields:

• hadith_id: A unique numerical identifier for the narration.
• arabic_text: The full original Arabic text including the Isnad (chain of transmission) and Matn (body text).
• english_text: The English translation of the narration.
• narrators_ar: Extracted names of narrators in Arabic.
• narrators_en: Extracted names of narrators in English.

Example Entry

 {
    "hadith_id": 37943,
    "arabic_text": "حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ، ثَنَا مُعْضِلٌ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ عَرْفَجَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ: لَمَّا جِيءَ عَلِيٌّ بِمَا فِي عَسْكَرِ أَهْلِ النَّهْرِ قَالَ: مَنْ عَرَفَ شَيْئًا فَلْيَأْخُذْهُ , قَالَ: فَأُخِذَتْ إِلَّا قَدْرًا , قَالَ: ثُمَّ رَأَيْتُهَا بَعْدُ قَدْ أُخِذَتْ",
    "english_text": "Yahya bin Adam told us, Mu'dil told us, from Abu Ishaq, from 'Arfaja, from his father, who said: When what was in the camp of the people of Al-Nahrawan was brought to Ali, he said: \"Whoever recognizes something, let him take it.\" He said: So [everything] was taken except a pot. He said: Then I saw it later having been taken.",
    "narrators_ar": "يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ، مُعْضِلٌ، أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَرْفَجَةَ، أَبِيهِ",
    "narrators_en": "Yahya b. Adam, Mu'dil, Abu Ishaq, 'Arfaja, his father"
  }

Source & Digitization

This dataset was sourced from the ibnabishaybah GitHub repository by muxaibest. The goal of the original project was to make these historical texts accessible online in a structured, searchable, and user-friendly format.

Licensing

Arabic Text

The original Arabic text of Ibn Abi Shaybah’s works is over 1,000 years old and is in the Public Domain.

English Translation

The English translation was released by Sheikh Abu Sultana under the CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).

This means:

• You are free to use, copy, modify, and distribute this data for any purpose.
• No attribution is strictly required (though appreciated for scholarly transparency).
• It can be used for commercial projects, AI training, and research without restriction.

Usage

You can load this dataset directly using the Hugging Face datasets library:

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("freococo/musannaf_ibn_abi_shaybah")

# Access the first entry
print(dataset['train'][0])

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to:

• Sheikh Abu Sultana for his generous contribution of the English translation to the public domain.
• muxaibest for the digitization and structural organization of the JSON files.