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Sahih Muslim

By Muslim Ibn Al Hajjaj

صحيح مسلم

The Musnad al-Sahih of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Naysaburi (d. 261 AH): the second most celebrated hadith collection, famed for gathering the variant transmissions of each report in one place and for its introductory essay that became a founding text of hadith method.

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Arabia
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Scripture and its sciences

Overview

"Al-Musnad al-Sahih al-Mukhtasar bi-Naql al-Adl an al-Adl ila Rasul Allah" (The Concise Authentic Collection of Reports Transmitted by the Reliable from the Reliable to the Messenger of God ﷺ), by Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri al-Nisaburi (d. 261 AH) (his biography). It is one of the Six Books. 1

It is regarded as the second most famous book of hadith. It is known for bringing together the different chains of a single hadith in one place. Its introduction on the terminology of hadith became a foundational text in the science of hadith. 1

Structure and size

Sunnah.com describes Sahih Muslim as containing roughly 7,500 hadith (counting repetitions) in 57 books. Its English translation is by Abdul Hamid Siddiqui 2. Together with Sahih al-Bukhari it is known as the two Sahihs.

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Part of
The Six Books
Mentioned in
Muslim's prologue — the isnad is part of the religion

People and things also explored

Isnad· Muwatta of Imam Malik· The Six Books· Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak· Jami' al-Tirmidhi· Sahih al-Bukhari· Sunan Abi Dawud· Sunan al-Nasa'i

Sources

  1. Sahih Muslim
  2. Sunnah.com — hadith collections , muslim
  • The Method of Documenting the Prophetic Sunna — Muhammad Ibrahim al-Fayyumi
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Isnad

The isnad is the chain of men linking a hadith's text back to the Prophet or a Companion — 'so-and-so told us from so-and-so'; by it the muhaddithun judged a report sound or weak, examining narrators for integrity and precision and the chain for continuity. Muslim opened his Sahih with the isnad's dignity and its guarding against fabrication, so that it came to be counted among this community's distinguishing marks.