Mishkat al-Masabih

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Most famous
Sunni six major collections (Al-Kutub al-Sittah): Sahih al-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 Yahduruhu' l-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq Tahdhibu 'l-Ahkam by al-Tusi al-Istibsar by al-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 Sharh Usul al-Kafi — ?-1081 Jesus through Shiite Narrations — ?
Mu'tazili collections
Nahj with comments — ?-1258

Mishkat al-Masabih is the improved version of Masabih al-Sunnah. Al-Tabrizi essentially rendered a version of the text more preferable to those who don't posses a more advanced knowledge of the science of hadith by writing a commentary on it by the directions of 'Allamah Husayn ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Tibi, and this writing is what came to be known as Mishkat al-Masabih. It contains 4434 to 5945 ahadith, divided up amongst 29 books and is considered by Sunni scholars as an important writing. An example of a hadith from Mishkat al-Masabih is as follows:

"He is not a perfect believer, who goes to bed full and knows that his neighbour is hungry. [Mishkat Al-Masabih 2/424]"

[edit] Improvements by Al-Tabrizi

He added 1511 ahadith to the ahadith already found in the collection Masabih al-Sunnah.
Al-Baghawi classified many ahadith as sahih when at times Al-Tabrizi did not agree. Al-Tabrizi expounded on the labels he placed on the ahadith and re-classified many of them.
He added al-Fasl al-Thalith, a third section to the Masabih al-Sunnah, which was already divided in two parts by Al-Baghawi.
Al-Baghawi didn't mention the isnads of the ahadith he collected, Al-Tabrizi mentions the source from where the hadith is originally found making the text more reliable.