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What is the most comprehensive and largest printed book of prophetic hadith?

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Among the largest and most comprehensive printed hadith books are:

1. Al-Musnad Al-Jami' by Dr. Bashar Awwad Ma'rouf: It includes hadiths from 21 sources, among them the Six Books, and was printed in forty volumes. 2. Jam' Al-Fawa'id min Jami' Al-Usul wa Majma' Al-Zawa'id by Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Sulaiman al-Maghribi al-Maliki: It compiled 15 books from the fundamental diwans of the Sunnah and arranged them according to the chapters of fiqh. 3. Al-Jami' Al-Kabir by Al-Suyuti: Printed in twenty-five volumes. 4. Kanz Al-Ummal fi Sunan Al-Aqwal wa Al-Af'al by Al-Muttaqi Al-Hindi: It contains Al-Jami' Al-Kabir and Al-Jami' Al-Saghir by Al-Suyuti, and includes approximately 47,000 hadiths. 5. Musnad Imam Ahmad: It contains forty thousand hadiths, about ten thousand of which are repetitions.

As for the books that have not yet been confirmed to be printed, or about which nothing is known:

1. Al-Jami' Al-Azhar, min Hadith Al-Nabi Al-Anwar, by Allama Al-Munawi. 2. Bahr Al-Asanid fi Sahah Al-Masaniid by Abu Muhammad Al-Samarqandi: In it, its author compiled 100,000 hadiths. 3. Musnad Imam Baqi ibn Makhlad Al-Andalusi: This is a musnad categorized by fiqh, in which he narrated from 1600 companions, and it is lost except for a small part.

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