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A 14/15th-century manuscript of Sahih al-Bukhari. 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).
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 Muslims, alongside Sahih Muslim , as the most authentic after the Qur'an .
A number of Islamic scholars have sought to produce additional collections to supplement the six canonical hadith collections with additional useful and/or sound hadith. Many hadith in larger and important works, for example the Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal , are not found in the six (along with works of Tabarani, Abu Ya'la, and Bazzar).
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 is a book titled Gharib Al-Hadith. It was written by an early Islamic scholar, Abu Ubaid al-Qasim bin Salam (770-838). There's an incomplete manuscript of this book dated back to 252 AH (866CE). It is now kept at Leiden University Libraries. A digital version of the manuscript is available via Leiden University Libraries’ Digital ...
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.
Sahifah al-Sadiqah (Arabic: الصحيفة الصادقة, romanized: The Truthful Script) is a collection of hadith (sayings and practice of Muhammad) compiled by Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As, one of his companions, It is often called the first book of hadith.