war&peace said: ↑
"Actually I do...I was raised in UAE and then I proceeded to USA for university education. I have been schooled Islamically but that I never wanted to boast but since you asked so I told you. You have mentioned only one book by ibn-e-Kathri as if that's the only standard which in fact is wrong since Ibn-e-Kathir represents a special of thought...so now I know about where you are coming from...there are many books of hadeeth (masnad Ahmed, Sahah-e-sitah, Imaam Asqalani and many tafaseer."
The Six Authentic Hadeeth Books
(Sihah Sitta)
- Sahih al-Bukhari
- Sahih Muslim
- Sunan an-Nasa'i al-Sughra
- Sunan Abu Dawood
- Sunan al-Tirmidhi
- Sunan ibn Majah
A
hadith is a saying of Muhammad or a report about something he did. Over time, during the first few centuries of Islam, it became obvious that many so-called hadith were in fact spurious sayings that had been fabricated for various motives, at best to encourage believers to act righteously and at worse to corrupt believers' understanding of Islam and to lead them astray. Since Islamic legal scholars were utilizing hadith as an adjunct to the Qur'an in their development of the Islamic legal system, it became critically important to have reliable collections of hadith. While the early collections of hadith often contained hadith that were of questionable origin, gradually collections of authenticated hadith called
sahih (lit. true, correct) were compiled. Such collections were made possible by the development of the science of hadith criticism, a science at the basis of which was a critical analysis of the chain of (oral) transmission
(isnad) of the hadith going all the way back to Muhammad pbuh.
The two most highly respected collections of hadith are the authenticated collections the Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. (Sahih literally means "correct, true, valid, or sound.")
In addition to these, four other collections came to be well-respected, although not to the degree of Bukhari and Muslim's
sahih collections. These four other collections are the Sunan of
Tirmidhi,
Nasa'i,
Ibn Majah, and
Abu Da'ud. Together these four and the two sahih collections are called the "six books"
(al-kutub al-sitta). Two other important collections, in particular, are the
Muwatta of Ibn Malik, the founder of the Maliki school of law, and the
Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the founder of the Hanbali school of law.
