Sahih Muslim

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Most famous

Sunni six major collections (Al-Sihah al-Sittah): Sahih al-Bukhari Sahih Muslim Sunan an-Nasa'i al-Sughra Sunan Abu Dawood Sunan al-Tirmidhi Sunan Ibn Maja Shi'a Twelver collections: Nahj al-Balagha "The Four Books" (Al-Kutub Al-Arb'ah) Kitab al-Kafi of Kulainy Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq Tahdhib al-Ahkam by Shaikh Tusi al-Istibsar by Shaykh Tusi Ibadi collections: al-Jami' as-Sahih by al-Rabi' ibn Habib Tartib al-Musnad by al-Warijlani

Sunni collections

Al-Muwatta Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal — 780-855 Sunan al-Darimi — 868 Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah — 923 Sahih Ibn Hibbaan — 965 Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain — 1014 Mawdu'at al-Kubra— 1128-1217 Riyadh as-Saaliheen — 1233 - 1278 Mishkat al-Masabih - 1340 Talkhis al-Mustadrak — 1274-1348 Majma al-Zawa'id — 1335-1405 Bulugh al-Maram — 1372-1449 Kanz al-Ummal — 1500th

Shi'a Twelver collections

The book of Sulaym ibn Qays — 600th Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya — 678-713 Wasael ush-Shia — 1600s Bihar al-Anwar — 1600s Haqq al-Yaqeen — 1600s Ain Al-Hayat — 1600s Sharh Usul al-Kafi — ?-1081

Shi'a Ismaili collections

Qalam-e-Mowla Daim al-Islam

Mu'tazili collections

Nahj with comments — ?-1258

Sahih Muslim (Arabic: صحيح مسلم, ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, full title "Al-Musnadu Al-Sahihu bi Naklil Adli") is one of the Six major collections of the hadith in Sunni Islam, oral traditions relating to the words and deeds of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. It is the second most authentic hadith collection according to Sunni Muslims, the most authentic book of hadith after Sahih Al-Bukhari. It was collected by Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, also known as Imam Muslim.

Collection

Imam Muslim (Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj) was born in 202 AH in Naysabur (817/818CE) and died in 261AH (874/875CE)also in Naysabur. He traveled widely to gather his collection of ahadith (plural of hadith), including to Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt. Out of 300,000 hadith which he evaluated, approximately 4,000 were extracted for inclusion into his collection based on stringent acceptance criteria. Each report in his collection was checked and the veracity of the chain of reporters was painstakingly established. Sunni Muslims consider it the second most authentic hadith collection, after Sahih Bukhari. However, it is important to realize that Imam Muslim never claimed to collect all authentic traditions as his goal was to collect only traditions that all Muslims should agree on about accuracy.

According to Munthiri, there are a total of 2200 hadiths (without repetition) in Sahih Muslim. According to Muhammad Amin, ^[1] there are 1400 authentic hadiths that are reported in other books, mainly the Six major Hadith collections.

Views

Sunni Muslims regard this collection as the second most authentic of the Six major Hadith collections,^[2] containing only sahih hadith, an honor it shares only with Sahih Bukhari, both being referred to as the Two Sahihs. Shia Muslims dismiss many parts of it as fabrications or untrustworthy.

Commentaries and translations

1. Siyanah Sahih Muslim by Ibn al-Salah, of which only the beginning segment remains
2. Al Minhaj Be Sharh Sahih Muslim by Yahiya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi^[3].
3. Fath al-Mulhim
4. Takmilat Fath al-Mulhim
5. Sahih Muslim (Siddiqui) translated by Islamic scholar Abd-al-Hamid Siddiqui ^[4]. The text is used in the USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts
6. Summarized Sahih Muslim
7. Sharh Sahih Muslim by Allama Ghulam Rasool Saeedi

See also

• List of Sunni books
• Hadith terminology
• Science of hadith
• Hadith

References

1. ^ The number of authentic hadiths (Arabic), Muhammad Amin, retrieved May 22, 2006
2. ^ Various Issues About Hadiths
3. ^ Kitaabun - Classical and Contemporary Muslim and Islamic Books: What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam: Esposito, John L Esposito and Online version of Al Minhaj bi Sharh Sahih Muslim
4. ^ Sahih Muslim: Arabic-English [8 Volume Set] :: SoundVisionCanada.com Shopping

External links

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