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Hadith [b] is the Arabic word for 'things' like a 'report' or an 'account [of an event]' [3] [4] [5]: 471 and refers to the Islamic oral anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle (companions in Sunni Islam, [6] [7] ahl al-Bayt in Shiite Islam).
According to classical Islamic theories, [3] the sunnah is primarily documented by hadith—which are the verbally-transmitted record of the teachings, actions, deeds, sayings, and silent approvals or disapprovals attributed to Muhammad—and alongside the Quran (the book of Islam) are the divine revelation delivered through Muhammad [3] that ...
The Nine Hadith books that are indexed in the world renowned Hadith concordance (Al-Mu’jamul Mufahras li Alfadhil Hadithin Nabawi) [1] that includes al-Sihah al-Sittah (The Authentic Six), Muwatta Imam Malik, Sunan al-Darimi, and Musnad Ahmad. Sahih al-Bukhari (9th century) Sahih Muslim (9th century) Sunan Abu Dawood (9th century)
Hadith studies is the academic study of hadith, a literature typically thought in Islamic religion to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval of the Muhammad as transmitted through chains of narrators.
This hadith should not clash with a more reliable report and must not suffer from any other hidden defect. [3] Ḍaʻīf - which cannot gain the status of hasan because it lacks one or more elements of a hasan hadith. (For example, if the narrator is not of sound memory and sound character, or if there is a hidden fault in the narrative or if ...
Traditional theory of Islamic jurisprudence elaborates how the scriptures (Quran and hadith) should be interpreted from the standpoint of linguistics and rhetoric. [2] It also comprises methods for establishing authenticity of hadith and for determining when the legal force of a scriptural passage is abrogated by a passage revealed at a later ...
He then defines a hadith that is ṣaḥīḥ lighairihi ("ṣaḥīḥ due to external factors") as a hadith "with something, such as numerous chains of narration, strengthening it." [3] [full citation needed] In the Sunni branch of Islam, the canonical hadith collections are the six books (Kutub al-Sittah) listed below.
Sahih Muslim (Arabic: صحيح مسلم, romanized: Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim) is the second hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. Compiled by Islamic scholar Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj (d. 875) in the musannaf format, the work is valued by Sunnis, alongside Sahih al-Bukhari, as the most important source for Islamic religion after the Qur'an.