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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