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Hadith were not promptly written down during Muhammad's lifetime or immediately after his death. [3] Hadith were evaluated orally to written and gathered into large collections during the 8th and 9th centuries, generations after Muhammad's death, after the end of the era of the Rashidun Caliphate, over 1,000 km (600 mi) from where Muhammad lived.
Sources differ on the exact number of hadiths in Sahih al-Bukhari, with definitions of hadith varying from a prophetic tradition or sunnah, or a narration of that tradition. Experts have estimated the number of full- isnad narrations in the Sahih at 7,563, with the number reducing to around 2,600 without considerations to repetitions or ...
Beyond Authenticity, Alternative Approaches to Hadith Narrations and Collections. Brill. pp. 20– 59. Gharaibeh, Mohammad (2021). "Intertextuality between History and Hadith Studies: The Mūqiẓah fī ʿilm muṣṭalaḥ al-ḥadīth in the Center of al-Dhahabī's (d. 748/1348) work".
List of notable compilers of hadiths collections. and authors of Hadith commentaries: Muhammad al-Bukhari (194-256 AH) Sahih Bukhari (hadith #1/6 of Kutub al-Sittah), primarily used by Sunni. Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni (250-329 AH) Kitab al-Kafi (hadith #1/4 of The Four Books), primarily used by Shi'a Islam. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (773-852 AH)
Other Primary/Major Collections (Primary Hadith books are those books which are collected and written by author or their students themselves). Most of the following list has been given in Preface (Muqadamah) of the book Al-Jami al-Kamil (published in 2019) by Imam Ziya-ur-Rahman Azmi , but the 1st century collections are not really available:
This book was written by the early Islamic scholar, Shafi‘i. Even though this is not a book written specifically in the field of hadith, it still contains dozens of hadiths. There are two manuscripts of this book at the National Library in Cairo. The first known as the manuscript of Ibn Jama'ah and the second one is the manuscript of Ar-Rabi'.
Not only were the hadith collections compiled centuries after the Quran, but their canonization also came much later. Scholar Jonathan A. C. Brown has studied the process of canonization of the two "most famous" collections of hadith -- sahihayn of al-Bukhari and Muslim—which went from "controversial to indispensable" over the centuries. [4]
Despite the book's reputation and the consensus of scholars that it is the second most authentic collection of hadith after Sahih al-Bukhari, it is agreed upon that this does not mean that every hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari is more valid than every hadith in Sahih Muslim, but that the total of what is contained in Sahih al-Bukhari is more valid ...