Hadith collection

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Most famous
Sunni six major collections (Al-Kutub al-Sittah): Sahih Bukhari Sahih Muslim al-Sunan al-Sughra Sunan Abu Da'ud Sunan al-Tirmidhi Sunan Ibn Maja/Al-Muwatta Shi'a collections: Nahj al-Balagha "The Four Books" (Al-Kutub Al-Arb'ah) Usul al-Kafi and Furu al-Kafi of Kulayni Man la Yahdhuruhu' l-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq Tahdhibu 'l-Ahkam by Tusi al-Istibsar by Tusi Ibadi collections: al-Jami' as-Sahih by al-Rabi' ibn Habib Tartib al-Musnad by al-Warijlani
Sunni collections
Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal — 780-855 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 Talkhis al-Mustadrak — 1274-1348 Majma al-Zawa'id — 1335-1405 Bulugh al-Maram — 1372-1449 Kanz al-Ummal — 1500th Da'if al-Tirmidhi — 20th century Sahih al-Tirmidhi — 20th century
Shi'a collections
The book of Sulaym ibn Qays — 600th Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya — 678-713 Bihar al-Anwar — 1600s Haqq al-Yaqeen — 1600s Shahr Usul al-Kafi — ?-1081 Jesus through Shiite Narrations — ?
Mu'tazili collections
Nahj with comments — ?-1258

This is a sub-article of hadith.

Most hadith hadith collection were collected a few centuries after hijra. The most famous Sunni collection are Sahih Muslim and Sahih Bukhari, and the most famous Shi'a collections are Nahj al-Balagha and Usul al-Kafi.

1 History
2 Muslim view
- 2.1 Sunni view
- 2.2 Shi'a view
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

Generally, Umar II is credited with having ordered the first collection of hadith material in an official manner, fearing that some of it might be lost. Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Hazm and Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, are among those who compiled hadiths at `Umar II’s behest. ^[1]

[edit] Muslim view

While Sunni's believe that "the door to Ijtihad is sealed", the Shi'a do not concur in this conclusion.

[edit] Sunni view

Accordingly, Sunni Islam views the conclusions of the authors of the collections Sahih Muslim and Sahih Bukhari to be above critique per doctrine. This result in the authors conclusion of their book only containing Sahih hadith to be true.

[edit] Shi'a view

Shi'a do not consider the door to Ijtihad to be sealed, and in the contrary, they do not deem any hadith to be Sahih unless the scholar claiming it to be Sahih is alive and can formulate the reason for his conclusion.

This results in Shi'a not accepting any Hadith collection as being "all authentic", unless its author is alive, and hence, Shi'a do not have any old Hadith collection whom they hold in the same status as Sunnis hold Sahih Bukhari.

However, Shi'a do value their own collections as having been deemed to have a very high amount of Sahih narrations by many scholars through time. For example, Nahj al-Balagha is considered almost entirely authentic by all Shi'a scholars in all times, but for the sake of the principle, it is not said to contain only authentic hadith.