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The Hadith
In Islam the Hadith is second in authority only to the Qur'an. It is a record of the prophet Mohammed's (pbuh) life, actions, and deeds. A saying in the Hadith is called a sunnah. These sunnah were transmitted by word of mouth down through the centuries having been memorised first by prophet Muhammad's (pbuh) companions and then later by subsequent Muslims. Therefore, the hadith is the written record of the oral traditions passed down from Muslim to Muslim of what the prophet Mohammed (pbuh) was supposed to have said and done.

The Hadith are split into two categories, "Hadith Qudsi (sacred hadith) in which Allah (God) himself is speaking in, as it were, a complementary revelation through the prophet, and Hadith Sharif (noble hadith), the prophet's own acts and utterances."

The most famous and universally accepted among the six collections of Hadith are those of Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.

The internet is full of sites that claim the Hadith to be false. Muslims need to be careful about going to such sites as they are deliberately making false claims. This is the work of the none believers who are trying to mislead Muslims. Many western scholars have written books and papers claiming to prove that the Hadith are false. We also have many Muslim sects that also make such claims. Be very careful what you read on the internet. Always check your source with at least 3 accepted Islamic sources. Please remember that the Qur'an is the main authority in Islam.

It is essential to remove one of the serious misgivings under which so many none muslim and weak Muslim scholars are labouring. When they are told that Imam Muslim selected 4,000 ahadith out of a total collection of 300,000, they think that since quite a large number of ahadith were unreliable, therefore, these were rejected, and then jump to the conclusion that the whole stock of hadith is spurious and should be rejected outright. This betrays utter ignorance of the critics even about the elementary knowledge of hadith. Matn (text) is not the basis on which is calculated the number of ahadith. Hadith is counted on the chain of transmission. Thus when we say that Imam Muslim collected 300,000 ahadith and included only 4,000 in his compilation, it does not imply that he rejected the rest of the whole lot of the Prophet's sayings being unreliable. What this means is that the words and deeds of the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) were transmitted to Imam Muslim through so many chains of transmission out of which he selected 4,000 chains as most authentic and narrated the text on their authority. A text (matn) which is transmitted through one hundred isnads (
the chain of transmitters) is in Hadith literature treated as one hundred traditions. For example, the text of the first hadith in Bukhari (The Actions Are Based on Intention) is counted as a selection of one out of 700 ahadith since it has been transmitted through such a large number of isnads(the chain of transmitters).

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Authority of the Sunnah 

Authority of the Sunnah
Definition of the Sunnah, and the History of the Sunnah, and the Efforts of the Scholars in verifying the Sunnah.

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Bukhari :: Muslim :: Malik :: Dawud Hadith Collection 

Bukhari :: Muslim :: Malik :: Dawud Hadith Collection


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Introduction to and History of the Sunnah 

Introduction to and History of the Sunnah


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Rules Governing the Criticism of Hadeeth 

Rules Governing the Criticism of Hadeeth


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