About Hadith

ABOUT HADITH

The two most highly respected collections of hadith are the authenticated collections:

1. Sahih Bukhari

2. Sahih Muslim.

(Sahih literally means "correct, true, valid, or sound.")

In addition to these, four other collections came to be well-respected, although not to the degree of Bukhari and Muslim's sahih collections. These four other collections are:

3. Sunan of Tirmidhi

4. Sunan Nasa'i

5. Sunan Ibn Majah

6. Sunan Abu Da'ud.

Together these four and the two sahih collections are called the "six books" (al-kutub al-sitta).

Two other important collections, in particular, are:

7. Muwatta of Ibn Malik, the founder of the Maliki school of law

8. Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the founder of the Hanbali school of law.

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