Mishkat al-Masabih

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

  1. Sahih al-Bukhari
  2. Sahih Muslim
  3. al-Sunan al-Sughra
  4. Sunan Abi Dawood
  5. Sunan al-Tirmidhi
  6. Sunan Ibn Maja/Al-Muwatta

Shi'a Twelver collections:

  1. Kitab al-Kafi of Kulainy
  2. Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq
  3. Tahdhib al-Ahkam by Shaikh Tusi
  4. al-Istibsar by Shaykh Tusi

Ibadi collections:

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

Mishkat al-Masabih is the improved version of Masabih al-Sunnah. Al-Tabrizi d. 741H [1] essentially rendered a version of the text more preferable to those who don't possess 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.

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[edit] References

    1. ^ Zirikli, al-A'lam, p. 6/234