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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 ...
Hadith terminology (Arabic: مصطلح الحديث, romanized: muṣṭalaḥu l-ḥadīth) is the body of terminology in Islam which specifies the acceptability of the sayings attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad by other early Islamic figures of significance such as the companions and followers/successors.
According to Sunni Islam, which reflects the beliefs followed by 80–90% of adherents of Islam worldwide, [5] Sahih status was achieved by the first two books in the following list (known as "the six books" or Kutub al-Sittah): Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī. Considered the most authentic book after the Quran. [6] Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim. Considered ...
Western scholars participating in the field of hadith studies are generally skeptical of the value of hadith for understanding the true historical Muhammad, even those considered sahih by Muslim scholars. Among other reasons, this is due to the late date for when the hadith compilations were made (at least 1 century and usually multiple ...
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.
Sunni Muslims believe that this view is strengthened by the fact that in both Sahih's, the hadith is included under Hajj-related topics. Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi, a 13th century Sunni Islamic scholar, the author of the commentary of Sahih Muslim supports the view that this hadith concerning Mut'ah refers to the Mut'ah of Hajj. [14]
Shi'a Muslims use different books of hadith from those used by Sunni Muslims, [b] who prize the six major hadith collections.In particular, Twelver Shi'a consider many Sunni transmitters of hadith to be unreliable because many of them took the side of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali instead of only Ali (and the rest of Muhammad's family) and the majority of them were narrated through certain ...
The author collected in this book the names and biographies of all, or most, of the hadith narrators mentioned in the six canonical hadith collections.These six books are Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim and the four Sunan books by Al-Nasa'i, al-Tirmidhi, Abu Dawood and Ibn Majah.