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Shuab ul Iman, (Arabic: شعب الايمان), is a multi-volume Hadith book compiled by Imam al-Bayhaqi (384 AH – 458 AH). [1] The author provides an exhaustive textual commentary relating to foundations of faith and its branches.
Often, Al-Bayhaqi would then understand such hadith as less reliable or allegorical. [ 25 ] Al-Bayhaqi is regarded as the last person in history to comprehensively collect and assemble the textual evidence of the Shafi'i madhab including the hadith, the opinions of Imam Shafi'i and those of his direct students.
It is the largest Sunan Book available in history of Hadith collection, containing almost twenty two thousand (22,000) Hadiths according to Al-Maktaba Al-Shamela. [2] A book with similar name (Sunan al-Kubra) is also written by Imam al-Nasa'i having almost twelve thousand (12,000) hadiths.
Aqidah al-Salafi Ahl al-Hadith by Al-Sabuni; Al-Asma' wa al-Sifat by Al-Bayhaqi; Al-Durrah fi ma Yazibu Itiqaduhu by Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi; Al-I'tqaad alaa Madhabis-Salaf Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaah by Al-Bayhaqi; Hayat ul Anbiya fi Quboor by Al-Bayhaqi; Al-Ishara ila Madhhab Ahl al-Haqq by Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi [28] Kashf ul Mahjoob by Ali Hujwiri
The book contains almost three thousand (3000) hadiths according to Maktaba Shamila. [3] His work is commonly known as Ṣaḥiḥ Ibn Khuzaymah. According to Ibn Ḥajar, the actual title of the book is Kitâb Al-Ṣaḥîḥ, The Authentic Book.
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]
The hadith, including its isnād, is free of ʻillah (hidden detrimental flaw or flaws, e.g. the establishment that two narrators, although contemporaries, could not have shared the hadith, thereby breaking the isnād.) The hadith is free of irregularity, meaning that it does not contradict another hadith already established (accepted).
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 ...