Saha e sitta

Name: Abdullah Mubeen

Section: C
Sap ID: 70141644
E-mail: 70141644@student.uol.edu.pk
Subject: Islamiat
Mam: Sumaira Nawaz
Topic: Saha e Sitta

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What is Saha e Sitta ?

 “ Al Sihah-al-Sittah” which is commonly translated as “ The Authentic Six
“. They were first rightfully grouped and defined by Ibn Al Qaisarani in the
11th century.
 We Muslims view the six significant ahadith collections as the most important.
They are in order of authenticity:
 Sahih Al Bukhari
 Sahih Muslim
 Sunan Abu Dawood
 Sunan al-Trimidhi
 Sunan al-Nasa’i
 Sunan ibn Majah

1-Sahih Al Bukhari
Features:
Compiled by : Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī
When: 9th century
Total Hadith: 7563
Chapters: 97
Weak ahadith: 78
Followed by: Sunnis
About Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari (compiler of Sahih
Bukhari):
 Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari, also known as Imam al-Bukhri or Imam
Bukhari, was a Muslim muhadith who lived in the 9th century. He is
considered as the most significant hadith scholar in Sunni Islam's history. He
lived from 21 July 810 to 1 September 870. The hadith collections of Bukhari
include:
 Al-Tarikh al-Kabir
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 Al-Adab al-Mufrad.
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 Al-Bukhari is known to have traveled to most of the important Islamic

learning centers of his time, including Kufa, Basra, Egypt, Yemen,
and Baghdad. Al-Bukhari is known to have memorized over
600,000 hadith narrations.
Method Of Classification and Annotation:
Before a hadith was included in Imam al-Bukhr's book he (rahimahullah) set
requirements that all narrators and witnesses in the hadith chain had to follow.:
1. The chain's narrators must all be just ('adl).

2. The chain of narrators must all have strong memories, and all Muhadditheen with
extensive knowledge of the ahadith must concur on the narrators' capacity for
learning and memorization as well as their reporting methods.

3. There must be no gaps in the chain of narrators.

4. The fourth requirement, added by Imam al-Bukhr, is that it be established that

successive narrators in the chain came into contact with one another.
He conducted ghusl and two raka'ah nafl prayers and prayed to Allah for direction
before adding a hadith to his compilation. Each hadith was completed by him at the
masjid's raw-dah, which is located between the Prophet's tomb and mimbar. He
only included a hadith in his collection after he was entirely blissful with it..
Authenticity:
 Bukhari also said, "I saw the Prophet in a dream and it was as if I was
standing in front of him. In my hand was a fan with which I was
protecting him. I asked some dream interpreters, who said to me, 'You
will protect him from lies.' This is what compelled me to produce the Sahih
 Bukhari narrates, "We were with Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh who said, "If only
you would compile a book of only authentic narrations of the Prophet."
This suggestion remained in my heart so I began compiling the Sahih”.
Status:
Imām an-Nawawi (rahimahullah) relates that all scholars in Islām have agreed
that Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī has gained the status of being the most faithful book after the
Qur'an.
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2-Sahih Muslim:
Features:
Compiled by: Muslim Ibn Al-Hajjaj
When: 9th Century
Total Hadith: 7500
Weak hadith: 100
Followed by: Sunnis
About Muslim Ibn Al-Hajjaj (compiler of Shih Muslim)
Abū al-Ḥusayn ‘Asākir ad-Dīn Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj ibn Muslim after 815 – May
875 CE / 206 - 261 AH) or Muslim Nayshapuri commonly known as Imam
Muslim, was an Islamic scholar from the city of Nishapur, particularly known as
a muhaddith (scholar of hadith). His hadith collection, Sahih Muslim, is one of
the six major hadith collections in Sunni Islam and is regarded as one of the two
most authentic (sahih) collections, alongside Sahih al-Bukhari.
Method of classification and annotation:
He divided narrators and sub-narrators into 3 levels:

 First Level– Those people who are completely accurate in their commemoration
and charm with no deficiency whatsoever. They were known to be honest and
trustworthy.
 Second Level– People of slightly lesser memory and rightness than the previous
category, yet still trustworthy and familiar, not liars by any measure. Examples of
people in this category include `Ata ibn Said and Layth ibn Abi Sulaim.
 Third Level– whose honesty was a subject of dispute or even discussion. Imam
Muslims did not concern themselves with such people. Examples in this category
include Abdullah ibn Maswar and Muhammad ibn Said al-Maslub.

Authenticity:
Muslim imams pay close devotion to the narrators' exact language and point out even
the slightest difference in the phrasing of their tales. In addition, Imam Muslim has
always measured the distinction between the two well-known narrative techniques,
haddathana (which he provided for us) and akhbarana (he informed us).
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Status
Despite the book's reputation and the consensus of scholars that it is the second most
authentic collection of hadith after Sahih al-Bukhari, it is agreed upon that this
does not mean that every hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari is more valid than
every hadith in Sahih Muslim, but that the total of what is contained in Sahih al-
Bukhari is more reasonable than the total of what is contained in Sahih Muslim.
3-Sunan al-Nasa’i:
Features:
Compiled by: Al-Nasa'i
Period: 9th century
Total Ahadiths: 5270
About Al-Nasai (compiler of Sunan al-Nasai):
Al-Nasa'i claims he was born in the city of Nasa in modern-day Turkmenistan.
Nasa was a part of Khorasan, a region in Western Asia and Central Asia known for
its numerous centers of Islamic learning. Al-Nasa'i claims he was born in the year
830 (215 h.), although some claim it was 829 or 869 (214 or 255 h.). He authored
an edited version of his "As-Sunan al-Kubra" (The Big Sunan), called "Al-
Mujtaba" or (The Concise Sunan). Of the fifteen books he is known to have written,
six treat the science of hadīth.

Authenticity:
According to al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar, the book of Sunan an-Nasa'i contains the least
da‘eef (weak) hadiths and major narrators among the six books after the Saheehain
there is not a single mawdhoo (fabricated) hadith in it.
It is claimed Sunan al-Sughra is "politically biased" toward Ali, the cousin of
Muhammad

Status:
Within Kutub al-Sittah, it is considered the most trustworthy book
of hadith (narrations of Muhammad) after the Sahihayn (Sahih al-Bukhari & Sahih
Muslim) by most scholars of hadith
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4-Sunan Abu Dawood :

Features:
Compiled by: Abu Dawood Al Sijistani
Period: 9th century
Total Hadeet: 4800
About Abu Dawood Al Sijistani (compiler of Sunan Abu Dawood)
The full name of Abu Dawud is Sulaiman Bin Asyas Bin Ishaq Al-Azdy Al-
Sijistaniy, often known as "Sistan." He is the author of the well-known Hadith
collection Sunan Abu Dawud, which is third in importance and reputation only to
Sahih Al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslims. One of the most competent scholars of the
Prophet's (S.A.W.) Hadith, its fiqh (Islamic law), flaws, texts, and chains of narrators
throughout Islamic history was Abu Dawood. The scholars of his time recognized
his high scientific status.
Method of classification and annotation:
 In compiling the Sunan, Imam Abu Dawud included only those aḥadith that
fall under topics of Fiqh.
 He included only one or two ahadith under each chapter to make the
collection concise and easy to derive fiqh.
He occasionally summarized long ahadith for brevity, so that the fiqh didn't
get lost in the long narration.
 In his Sunan, he included several aḥadith that is mursal in instances where
he did not know of a contradictory hadith with a connected chain.
 He did not include ahadith from those considered matruk al-hadith (a
narrator whose ahadith is rejected). He included a munkar (mistaken or
rejected) ḥadith only when there were no other ḥādīth in that topic. In such
cases, he mentioned that the ḥadith is munkar

Authenticity:
” When the Sunan was read out to Ibn al-A`rābī, he commented: “If a man had
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nothing with him except for the Book of Allah, and this book (of), he would need
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Status:
His Sunan has been known as a standard work by academics from various regions
of the Islamic world, especially when Ibn al-Qaisarani included it in the official
canonization of the six main collections. This is because the author had gathered
hadiths that no one had ever accumulated.

5-Sunan al-Trimidhi:
Features:
Compiled by: Al-Tirmidhi.
Period: 9th century
Total Ahadith: 4400
Weak ahadith: 23 or 32
About Al-Tirmidhi (compiler of Sunan al-Trimidhi):
At-Tirmidhi began the study of hadith at the age of 20. From the year 235 AH
(849/850) he traveled widely in Khurasan, Iraq, and the Hijaz to collect hadith.
Method of classification and annotation:
 Tirmidhi's system was that of signing the heading first, then mentioning one
or two Ahadith which were associated with the heading. These Ahadith are
followed by his estimation as to the status of the Hadith.
 Afterward, he mentions the feelings of the different jurists. He also signposts
if there were other descriptions transmitted by other companions on the same
matter.
 His principal aim was to discuss the legal opinions of early jurists. This book
became an important source for the different viewpoints of the various legal
schools.

Authenticity:
Sunnis regard this collection as fifth in the strength of their six major hadith
collections. Ibn al-Jawzi stated that there are twenty-three or thirty forged hadiths
in it, while Al-Albani identified sixteen fabricated hadiths
Status: Some scholars have criticized his findings as being too strict, concluding
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that there are no fabricated hadith in the Jami.

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6- Sunan ibn Majah:

Features:
Compiled by: Ibn Majah
Period: 9th century
Total Ahadiths: 4341
Weak: About 20
About Ibn Majah (compiler of Sunan ibn Majah):
Ibn Mājah was born in Qazwin, the modern-day Iranian province of Qazvin, in
824 CE/209 AH to a family who were members of the Rabiah tribe. Majah was the
nickname of his father.
Authenticity:
Upon completing it, he read it to Abu Zur’a al-Razi, a hadith authority of his time,
who commented, "I think that were people to get their hands on this, the other
collections, or most of them, would be rendered obsolete."
Status:
In terms of authenticity, Sunnis consider this collection to be the sixth of their six
main Hadith collections.

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