Masabih al-Sunnah

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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

Masabih al-Sunnah is a collection of hadith by the Persian Shafi'i scholar Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud ibn Mubammad al-Farra' al-Baghawi, also known as al-Farra' from sometime before 1122 CE. An improved version of this work, Mishkat al-Masabih, has additional hadith, and was the work of another Persian traditionalist Al-Tabari. The collection is divided into a number of books which are divided into chapters which are further divided into two separate sections, one for Sahih ahadeeth as labeled by him and from the collections of Bukhari and Muslim. The second section was for hasan ahadeeth from Al-Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud and others. Al-Tabari would alter certain ahadeeth positions in his own collection.

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Al-Baghawi omitted the isnads of these ahadeeth but kept the names of the Sahaba to whom the ahadith were traced.
Part of his purpose, as explained in the introduction, was to enlighten Muslims about certain things of which the Quran is silent.
Contains a grand total of 4434 ahadeeth.
2434 are from Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim

325 Sahih Bukhari Only

875 Sahih Muslim Only

1234 from both Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim

Al-Baghawi tells which ahadeeth from the second section of his work are gharib and da'if
A number of commentaries were made on this collection. Tufat Al-Abrar, Al-Maysir and the commentary by Abd al-Qadir ibn 'Abd Allah al-Suhrawardi.