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180 THE HISTORY OF THE QUR'ANIC TEXT

Figure 12.3: First page qf MaghiiztRasiilulliih by VVahb b. Munabbih (44-114
A.H.) copied in 227 A.H./841 C.E. Source: R.G. Khoury, Wahb b. Munabbih,
Plate PEI. Reprinted with the publisher's kindpermission.
Here the transmitter's names have become a permanent addendum to
the very beginning of the text. This common pattern can be discerned in
the $a&z& of al-Bukhari and Sunan of an-Nasa'i for example, but it is by
no means the only one. Certain works go further by inserting the original
author's name at the start of every hadith. in the book, such as the Musannof
of 'Abdur-Razzaq, Musanncf of Ibn AbI Shaiba, and (for the most part)
Sunan of at-Tirmidhl. A third variety in fact cites the book's entire chain
of transmitters at the beginning of each hadith. Obviously with the passing
of generations the inclusion of this entire chain will become prohibitively