Mawaddat al-Qurba

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Sunni six major collections
(Al-Kutub al-Sittah):

  1. Sahih Bukhari
  2. Sahih Muslim
  3. al-Sunan al-Sughra
  4. Sunan Abu Da'ud
  5. Sunan al-Tirmidhi
  6. Sunan Ibn Maja/Al-Muwatta

Shi'a collections:

  1. Usul al-Kafi and Furu al-Kafi of Kulayni
  2. Man la Yahdhuruhu' l-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq
  3. Tahdhibu 'l-Ahkam by Tusi
  4. al-Istibsar by Tusi

Ibadi collections:

  • al-Jami' as-Sahih by al-Rabi' ibn Habib
  • Tartib al-Musnad by al-Warijlani
Sunni collections
Shi'a collections
Mu'tazili collections

Expresed love for the close of kin (Arabic: Mawaddat al-Qurba) is a Sunni Hadith collection written by Ali Al-Hamdani It contains only Hadith that are authentic according to the Sunni criteria of authentification.

The book is name based on the Qur'anic verse 42:23, a verse the according to many Muslims, both Shi'a and Sunni, makes love to the Ahl al-Bayt obligatory.

The Turkish author, after having read the Qur'anic verse that demand Muslim to exprese love (mawaddat) for the Ahl al-Bayt (fi al-Qurba), started to collect authentic narrations regarding them. At the end, it mounted up to a book.

His book is also praised by Shi'as as having many hadith that support the Shi'a view.

This book is quoted in Yanabi al-Muwadda by Sulayman al-Qunduzi.

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