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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).
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.
As in any Islamic discipline, there is a rich history of literature describing the principles and fine points of hadith sciences. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani provides a summation of this development with the following: “Works authored in the terminology of the people of hadith have become plentiful from the Imaams both old and contemporary:
Sahih al-Bukhari (Arabic: صحيح البخاري, romanized: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī) is the first hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. Compiled by Islamic scholar al-Bukhari ( d. 870 ) in the musannaf format, the work is valued by Sunni Muslims, alongside Sahih Muslim , as the most authentic after the Qur'an .
The scholars of the science of hadith criticism hold that a khabar and, therefore, a hadith can be a true report or a concoction. It is on the basis of this premise that the Muslim scholars hold that a hadith offers a ẓannī (inconclusive/probably true) evidence. It is as though a hadith may have many possibilities on the plane of reliability ...
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 ...
Introduction to the Science of Hadith (Muqaddimah fi Ulum al-Ḥadith) by Ibn al-Salah; Some of the works of al-Madini; Tawil Mukhtalif al-Hadith by Ibn Qutaybah; Gharib al-Hadith by Al-Khattabi; al-Kifaya fi ma'rifat usul 'ilm al-riwaya by Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi [19] al-Ilma ila Maʿrifa Usul al-Riwaya wa Taqyid al-Samaʿ by Qadi Ayyad
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)