Sunni Hadith Compilations -
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Sahifah - Musannaf - Musnad, - Ṣaḥīḥ -
Stephen Lambden, UC Merced. Y1
1980s +2018.
IN PROGRESS - Last updated 09-04-2018.
This webpage is partly based upon Muhammad Abd al-Rauf (The Islamic Centre, Washington, D.C.), 'Hadith Literature - I: The Development of the Science of Hadith', in the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature [= CHAL.,] ed. Beeston, A F L. et. al. Cambridge: CUP., 1983), `Arabic Literature to the end of the Umayyad Period', vol. 1, pp. 271-288.
The bibliographical lists of the texts and translations of the Hadith collections listed below are only selections of classical and modern editions. They are by no means all trustworthy of good edition. Translations are likewise often inadequate and sometimes fail to include religiously controversial materils. Sadly, there do not seem to be modern reliable critical editions of many of the Hadith collections (see further Juynboll, Encyclopedia, 2007: xixff).
Basic Definitions of Hadith
The Oxford Dictionary of Islam :
"Report of the words and deeds of Muhammad and other early Muslims; considered an authoritative source of revelation, second only to the Quran (sometimes referred to as sayings of the Prophet). Hadith (pl. ahadith; hadith is used as a singular or a collective term in English) were collected, transmitted, and taught orally for two centuries after Muhammad's death and then began to be collected in written form and codified... See further
http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e758
"Hadith literature is exceedingly abundant ... The collection and arrangement of the Hadith, i.e. words, deeds and tacit approvals attributed to the Prophet, as well as descriptions of his person, developed through a number of stages. These are designated here as the sahifab, musannaf, musnad, sahih and the analytical stages" (Hadifth literature-I: The development of the science of Hadith ^MUHAMMAD ABDUL RAUF, The Islamic Centre, Washington, D.C.) Ch. 10 = CHAL 2:271).
Criterion of Hadith Reliability.
"As the mass of traditions gradually increased, it became more difficult to distinguish the genuine from the spurious. Isnād criticism, as referred to above, developed into a regular scholarly discipline constituting one of the branches of the `ilm al-hadith,
the science of tradition. Eventualiy the traditionists came to distinguish three types of isnāds:
I. Sahīh, i.e. "sound", the transmitters of which are all trustworthy; each of them had to have been in actual contact with his infonnant and this throughout the chain. Traditions with "sound" isnāds had to be generally accepted as historically authentic according to the Muslim traditionists
II. Hasan, i.e. "fair". These isnāds are sligbtly less reliable · because, for example, there may be found among the transmitters someone who is known to have been "forgetful" at times.
III. Da`īf, i.e. "weak". A "weak" isnād, generaliy speaking,.does not fulfil the conditions (shurut) of a sound or a fair isnād." (Juynboll, 1969: 7).
See further Juynboll, 2007: xxiiiff.
SELECT EARLY HADITH COMPILATIONS.
Ibn Jurayj (d. 150/767). A very early musannaf author,
Kitab al-Sunan,
Ma`mar ibn Rashid (b. Basra, d. 153/770)
The Musannaf of the Yemenite `Abd al-Razzaq Ibn Hammam al-San`ani (b. San`a', XXX d. 211/ 826)
al-Musannaf, 11 vols. ed. Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami. Beirut: XXXX, 1970-2
al-Musannaf ed. Habib al-Rahmin al-A`zami, 11 vols. Simlak, 1391/1972.
al·Musannaf. ed Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami. Beirut, 1390-2.
`Abd al-Razzaq al-San`ani
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Malik ibn Anas (d. 179/796),
Imam Malik ibn Anas (93 AH/711 CE – 179 AH/795 CE)
Founder of the second major Maliki law school
al- Muwaṭṭa’ - In 61 sections, "also containing opinions and legal decisions" (CHAL 2:272).
Ahadith. co.uk = http://ahadith.co.uk/maliksmuwatta.php
"The Muwatta' was revised several times over forty years by its author, who flourished in Medina, having studied earlier with renowned scholars there, and in turn taught those revised works to his disciples. Malik's revised work survived in some different versions through his disciples, notably Yahya b. Yahya al-Laythi of Cordoba (d. 232/848), and of Muhammad b. al-Hasan al-Shaybanl (d. 189/804), the well known Hanafi authority. Yahya's version is the more popular.
"The Muwatta''s sixty-one chapters, here called " books " (sing, kitab), are arranged according to the categories of the religious law, each dealing with one topic such as purity, prayers, zakat (alms-tax), fasting and so on. Chapters are divided into sub-chapters (sing. bab). A bab may begin with
a relevant hadith followed by comments, or with a question addressed to Malik followed by his answer, either alone or supported by a hadith or a Quranic verse, or by an opinion of a Companion or a Follower, or by the custom prevailing among the people of Medina.
"Among the 1,720 hadith existing in Yahya's version, which include 613 statements attributed to Companions and another 285 attributed to Followers, there are 61 without an isndd, some with interrupted isnads and 222 in which the narrating Companion is not mentioned. Some scholars later discovered complete isnads for those hadith" ( CHAL 2:272-3).
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Al-Muwaṭṭa’, riwayat Yahya ibn Yahya, ed. Muhammad Fu'ad `Abd al-Baqi, 2 vols. Cairo: XXXX, 1370/1951.
Al-Muwaṭṭa’, riwayat Yahya ibn Yahya, ed. Muhammad Fu'ad `Abd al-Baqi, 2 vols, Cairo 1952-3. .
Al-Muwaṭṭa’ ... ed. Bashshar Awwad Ma'ruf and Mahmud Muhammad Khalil. 2 vols. Beirut: XXXX, 1993.
Al-Muwatta (The Approved) By Imam Malik: ARB-ENG, DKI., 2 Vos.l Narrator: Yahia bin Yahia al-Laithi, Eng. Trans.Gehan 'Abdel-Raouf Hibah Revised by Muphtah Aduli. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya, Published in Arabic + English (Diwan Press) as well as Arabic (Maktaba al-Assrya ) and English only (Madinah Press).
Muwatta Imam Malik, Trans. Rahimuddin, Mohammad, New Delhi: Kitab Bhavan, 1981.
al-Suyuti, Jalal al-Din
Is`af al-mubatta bi-rijal al-Muwatta', ed. Faruq Sa`d, Beirut : XXXX, /1979
al-Zurqani, Muhammad
Sharh `ala al-Muwatta' al-imam Malik. al-Maktaba al-tijariyya al-kubra. Cairo: XXXX., 1954.
Sulayman b. Da'ud al-Tayalisi (d. 204/818),
al-Musnad - "contains 2,767 hadith, is believed to be the first musnad. Critics say that it includes some errors" (ABDUL RAUF, CHAL 2:273).
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al-Musnad Abi Dawud al-Tayalisi...
Musnad, Hyderabad : XXXX., 1321/19XX.
Arabic Urdu = PDf. Archive :2014 printing.
https://archive.org/details/MusnadAbuDawudTayalisiJild1LR
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241/855) (164-241 AH - 780-855 CE).
The large collection of prophetic ḥadīth of Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal (d. Baghdad, 241 / 855) is entitled al-Musnad ("The Supported [Traditions]"). It is a highly respected supplementary collection to the six books (see below and Burton,1994).
al-Musnad
"The Musnad of Ahmad b. Hanbal... founder of the fourth law school, is the best known of this category. It was transmitted through Ibn Hanbal's own son, 'Abdullah (d. 290/903), and then through 'Abdullah's disciple, Abu Bakr al-Qati`i (d. 368-979), both of whom made a few additions. It relates on the authority of 700 male and almost 100 female Companions whose names are arranged according to their seniority, beginning with the first four caliphs (the " Rashidiin"). It contains 30,000 hadiths, excluding 10,000 repetitions, filling six large volumes in small type in its Cairo edition (1312-13H). Although the claim that the Musnad contains a few discredited hadith was rejected by later scholars, it is admitted that some are "weak" (da* if). However, to some jurists, like Ibn Hanbal himself, this type of hadith was useful in making legal decisions. (ABDUL RAUF, CHAL 2:273-4).
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al-Musnad 6 vols. Cairo edition. 1312-13/ 18XX.
al-Musnad. 15+ vols. ed. Ahmad Muhammad Shakir, Cairo 1949-56+
Musnad Ahmad bin Hanbal, ed. Samir Taha al-Majdub, Beirut: XXXX., 1993
Musnad [Arabic text] Musnad, English Translation of the Musnad Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal, Abu Abdullah Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hanbal Ash-Shaibani {164-241 AH - 780-855 CE} Ahadeeth Edited. Researched and Referenced by DARUSSALAM. Translated by Nasiruddin Al-Khattab Edited by Huda Al-Khattab, 3 vols. . Riyadh:Maktaba Dar-us-Salam, 2012,
THE SIX + `CANNONICAL' SAHIH (SOUND) COLLECTIONS
Both Sunnī and Shī`ī Muslims give tremendous weight to ḥadīth (pl. aḥādīth), khabar (pl. akhbār ) literatures. Sunnī Muslims give primacy to "the six books" (al-kutub al-sittah) of `canonical’ ḥadīth compilations and secondary importance to numerous other supplementary works. They are first the two highly respected Ṣaḥīḥ or ("Reliable [Collections]"), the Ṣaḥīḥayn of al‑Bukhārī and Muslim b. Ḥajjāj :
(1) The Ṣaḥīḥ ("Reliable [Collection]") of al‑Bukhārī, Muḥammad b. Ismā’īl (194-256 AH = 810-870 CE).
(2) The Ṣaḥīḥ ("Reliable [Collection]") of Muslim b. Ḥajjāj (204-261 AH = 819-875 CE).
(3) The Sunan of Abū Dāwūd, Sulaymān ibn al-Ash‘ath al-Azdi al-Sijistānī (b. Sijistān c. 818 – d. Basra, 275/888). 202-275 AH = 817-888 CE.
(4) The Sunan of al Tirmidhī, Abū ‘Īsá Muhammad ibn ‛Īsá al-Sulamī (209-279 AH = 824-892 CE), d. Termez 279/892).
(5) The Sunan of al‑Nasā’ī, Aḥmad ibn Shu`ayb ibn Alī ibn Sīnān (d. Ramla or Mecca, 303 / 915 ),
(6A) The Sunan of Ibn Mājah, Muḥammad ibn Yazīd (b. Qazvin, 824 – d. c. 273/ 887/9).
(6B) The Sunan/ Musnad/ al-Jāmiʿ of al-Dārimī, 'Abdullah ibn 'Abd al-Rahman (b. Samarqand,181/797 -d. c. 250/865).
(7) The Sunan of al-Dāraquṭnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar al-Dāraquṭnī (d. 385/995), etc...
See further below ...
Abu‘l-Hajjaj Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Yusuf al-Mizzi, a Syrian traditionalist (654/1256- 742/1341).
Tu fat al-asharf bi-ma`rifat al-atraf, 13 vols. ed, `Abd al-Samad Sharaf al-Din, Bhiwandi, Bombay : XXXX, l965-1981.
This volume contains " all the canonical traditions from the Six Books and some major other collections with a unique arrangement of the hadith materrial which is "organized on the basis of the alphabetical order of Muhammad’s companions who allegedly transmitted one or more hadths from him" (so Juynboll, Encyclopedia, 2007: xviii).
[1] al-Bukharī, Abū 'Abd-Allāh Muhammad ibn Ismā'īl (d.256/870).
Al-Bukharī, regarded as founder of the sahih movement and its first author, began memorizing hadith at an early age and started compiling al-Jami` al-saḥīḥ, which took him sixteen years after establishing himself in Hadith criticism, to which he contributed significantly, and thus was able to extract from his material 6,000 reliable hadtth. He divided his work into 97 kitabs, and each kitab into babs (3,450 altogether), leaving unfilled those divisions for which he could not find satisfactory material. Titles of divisions cover the themes of revelation, tmdn, knowledge, law, eschatology, biography, exegesis and doctrine. The work includes hadtth without isndd or with broken isndds, quoted not as integral parts of the Sahth but for clarification or corroboration. To criticize al-Bukharī or his apparent incompleteness is therefore unfair. The number of hadtth in the Ṣaḥīḥ, excluding those without complete isnad, amounts to 7,397, of which about 4,000 are repetitions" (ABDUL RAUF, CHAL 2:274-5)
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al-Bukharī: al-Ṣaḥīḥ
Kitāb Jami` al-Ṣaḥīḥ. Ed. Ludolf Krehl + Th. W. Juynboll. 4 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1862-1908. Many reprints
al-Ṣaḥīḥ ... 9 vols., Cairo 1313/1895
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukharī. 4 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1997.
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukharī. Arabic-Engliah. Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan. 6 vols. Lahore: Ashraf, 1978-1980 + Riyadh, Saudi Arabia : Dār al-Salām, 1997.
al-Ṣaḥīḥ ... Beirut: 1422/2001.
Al-Bukharl's Kitab al-Rijdl al-kabir ("The Great Book on trustworthy authorities "
A work in four parts, published in eight volumes. "It is the corner-stone of criticism,treating 40,000 men, arranged alphabetically except that, in honour of the Prophet, it begins with those whose name is Muhammad " (RAUF, CHAL 2:278).
Kitab al-Rijal al-kabir. Hyderabad, 1361 / XXXX.
URLs
Ahadith.co.uk = http://ahadith.co.uk/sahihbukhari.php
[2] Muslim / Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj , Abū al-Ḥusayn, al-Qushayrī (d. 261/875).
"Following al-Bukhari's steps, Muslim recorded only authentic material in his work al-Jami`al-saḥīḥ. It contains 12,000 hadith including 4,000 repetitions, and is dedicated to hadith alone, unburdened with legal notes, and divided into 54 kitabs with titles such as iman, purity, prayer, zakah, hajj (pilgrimage). Divisions within kitabs are without titles, although sub-titles are added in commentaries. Each hadith appears where it should be, and all versions of a hadith and its available isnads are put together, thus making the book easier to use.
Al-Bukharl and Muslim are referred to as al-Shaykhan, i.e. the two leading authorities on hadith', and the hadith which exist in both works, said to number 2,326, are the most respected. Both al-Bukhari and Muslim phrase their reports in honest and careful terms. When two or more authorities narrate the same text, they add the words: "all say", or "both say"; but when the given version belongs to one of them they say: "and the text is his". When a teacher's name is obscure, they explain it by such words as: "and he is he son of so and so".
In terms of comparison, the majority prefer al-Bukhari who insists on an isnad mu`an`an, i.e. a chain of authorities in which the disciple is known actually to have met his teacher. Muslim is satisfied if they were contemporaries. Some, however, prefer Muslim for his better punctuation and easier order. (ABDUL RAUF, CHAL 2:275).
Select Modern printings.
Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj : al-Ṣaḥīḥ
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim. 8 vols. Cairo: XXXX, 1330-1334,
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim. ed. Muhammad Fu'ad `Abd al-Baqi. Cairo: Dār Iḥyā al-kutub al-`Arabiyya, 1374/ 1955-6.
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 10 vols. ed. Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Nawawī. Beirut: Dār al-Ma‘rifah, 1994.
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim. 7 vols., English trans. Nasiruddin Al-Khattab. Riyadh: Dar-us-Salam Publications Inc;, 2007.
Ṣaḥīḥ ... Beirut: XXXX, 1421/ 2000.
Sahih Muslim, Trans. Siddiqi, Abdul Hamid. Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf Publishers, 1987.
See below on the commentary and text in Muhyi al-Dln Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (d. 676/1278),
URLs
Ahadith,co,uk http://ahadith.co.uk/sahihmuslim.php [In Progress]
[3] Abū Dāʼūd / Dāwūd, Sulaymān ibn al-Ash‘ath al-Azdi al-Sijistani (b. Sijistani c. 818 – d. Basra, 275/888). Hanbalī Sunnī Muslim compiler of a `canonical’ collection of ḥadīth.
"The work compiled by Abu Da'ud, Kitab al-Sunan, contains 4,800 hadtth pertaining mainly to devotional and ceremonial topics, which the author selected from half a million hadtth he had learned, distributing them over 40 kitabs. Each kitab is divided into babs, 1,870 altogether, arranged in the legal categories. The work includes weak and very weak hadtth, but then their quality is indicated. The absence of such indication means that the hadtth is sahih or nearly so" (CHAL 2: 276).
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Abū Dāʼūd - Suman.
Sunan, 2 vols. Cairo 1863.
سنن أبي داود
Sunnan Abū Dāʼwūd (around 4,800 - 5,300 ḥadīth).
Ed. Muhammad Muḥyi al-Dīn `Abd al-Hamid. Cairo: Matba`at Mustafa Muhammad, 1354/1935). In this edition 5,274 ḥadīth are collected and compiled.
Sunan Abu Dawud, (English Trans. Ahamd Hasan), Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf Publishers,1987.
`Azimabadi, ed. + commentary.
`Awn al-Ma`bud - contains a good edition of the Sunan of Abū Dā'wūd.
URLs :
Ahadith.co.uk http://ahadith.co.uk/sunanabudawood.php [in progress]
[4] al-Tirmidhī, Abū ‘Īsá Muhammad ibn ‛Īsá al-Sulamī (d. Termez, 279/892).
جامع الترمذي,
"Al-Tirmidhfs significant compilation, called al-Jami` al-sahih ("The Comprehensive") and also al-Sunan, covers in its 46 kitabs, which are divided into babs, legal, ethical, doctrinal, Quranic and eschatological topics. Chapters on the Qur'an and the manaqib, i.e. the virtues of some Companions, lacking in other sunan, are extensive here.The author enters each of his 4,000 hadtths where it appears it should be, giving the variants, if any, at the same time. The importance of this compilation, confined to hadtth acceptable in legal circles, is that the author follows each hadtth with notes on its use by the jurists, thus making a valuable comparative legal study, and makes analytical remarks on the degree of the authenticity of a. hadtth, introducing the term hadtth, meaning a grade between sahth and da'tf. Thus, for him, a hadtth is sahih, hasan or da6tf\ but the combinations hasan—sahih and hasan-gharib, which he used in describing some hadtth, are difficult to interpret. The author's interest in hadtth criticism is further displayed by his adding a valuable supplement to his work, called Kitab al-`iIlal ....
al-Tirmidhī, al-Jāmi‘ al-Ṣaḥīḥ (`The Sound Collection’).
جامع الترمذي
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al-Jāmi‘ al-Ṣaḥīḥ - bi-sharh iman Ibn al-`Arabi al-Maliki - 13 vols. Cairo : XXXX., 1350-1352/ 1931-1934.
Al-jami` al-sahih, 5 vols. ed. Ahmad Muhammad. Shakir, Muhammad Fu'ad `Abd al-Baqi, Ibrahim `Atwa .. Cairo: XXXX 1937-65
al-Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tirmidhī,
al-Jami` al-Kabir, Beirut 1998, X vols ed.
al-Jami` al-Ṣaḥīḥ 6 vols. Arabic text and English translation of Jāmi ʿ at-Tirmidhī = Ğāmiʿ al-Tirmiḏī. 6 vols. translated by, Abu Khalīl ; Aḥādith edited and referenced by, Abū Tāhir Zubair ʻAli Zaʼi; final review by Islamic Research Section Darussalam. Riyad: Darussalam, 2007. See url below.
Sunan Al Tirmidhi - True Collection in Arabic/ English, ed, Haytham 4 Vols, Dar al Kutub al-`Ilmiyya,
Jami' At-Tirmidhi - Arabic / English. 6 Vols. ed. Abū Tāhir Zubair ʻAli Zaʼi;.Trans. Abu Khalil. Riyadh " Dar al-Salam. 2007,
URLs
جامع الترمذي
Jami` al-Tirmidhi is a collection of hadith compiled by Imam Abu `Isa Muhammad at-Tirmidhi... It contains roughly 4400 hadith (with repetitions) in 46 books
Ahadith.co.uk = http://ahadith.co.uk/ibnmajah.php
ARCHIVE. ORG - PDf. 6 Vols. Riyadh : Maktabah Dar al-Salam, 2007> جامع ترمذي، حديث متن عربي و ترجمه انجليزي جلد اول تا سادس
https://archive.org/details/JamiAtTirmidhiVol.632913956EnglishArabic
الشمائل المحمدية
al-Shamāʼil al-Muhammadiyya, Tirmidhī.
al-Shamāʼil al-Muhammadiyya, ed. Abd al-Majid Ta`ma Halabi. Beirut: XXXX, 1966.
The Characteristics of Prophet Muhammad. Trans. and Comm. Bahaa Addin Ibrahin Ahmad Shalaby, ed. Selma Cook. Cairo [Egypt] Dār al-Manārah, 1422/2003.
S̲h̲amaa-il Tirmid̲h̲i [= Shamāʼil Tirmidhī]. New Delhi : Adam Publishers & Distributors, 2012 (also, 1992 1st ed. + 2nd ed 1998, etc).
Shamā’il Tirmidhī. A Commentary on the Depiction of Prophet Muhammad. Shama'il Muhammadiyyah. Birmingham, UK. : Dar al-Arqam, 2015.
Shamā’il Tirmidhī. Portrait of the Prophet : As Seen by His Contemporaries ASH-Shama'Il Al-Muhammadiyya. Arabic text and translation / Bilingual edition. Muhtar Holland, Fons Vitae, 2018.
[5] al-Nasāʼī, Aḥmad ibn Shu`ayb ibn Alī ibn Sīnān (d. Ramla or Mecca, 303 / 915 CE).
Hanbalī Sunnī Muslim compiler of a major collection of over 5,000 ḥadīth.
"Al-Nasa'i's Kitab al-Sunan contains over 5,000 hadtth listed in 51 chapters, divided into sub-chapters, arranged in the familiar legal order. It treats mainly ceremonial topics and details of prayer formulae. The original work, which contained many da'tf and even more discredited hadtth, has never been published, but was condensed by the author's disciple, Ibn al-Sanl (d. 364/974) under the title al-Mujtabd, with the discredited categories deleted. " (CHAL 2: 276).
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The Sunan or al-Mujtaba
Sunan [Sunan al-Nasā’ī] bi-sharh al-Suyuti (Sunan al-Nasā’ī with Commentary of Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti = al-Mujtaba), 8 vols. Cairo : XXXX., 1348/XXXX.
al-Sunan al-Kubra 6 vols. ed. `Abd al-Ghaffar Sulayman al-Bundari and Sayyid Kasrawi Hasan, Beirut : XXXX., 1991.
Al-Sunan. 6 vols. English translation of Sunan an-Nasâ'i. edited & referenced by Abu Tāhir Zubayr ̀Alī Za'ī ; translated by Nâsiruddin al-Khaṭṭâb ; edited by Hudâ Khaṭṭâb ; final review by Abû Khaliyl. Riyadh : Darussalam, 2007.
Sunan al-Nasā’ī. English Translation of Sunan An-Nasa'i, 6 vols. Riyadh: Darussalam, 2007.
Sunan al-Nasā’ī. 2 vols. English translation with Arabic text ed. Muhammad Iqbal Siddiqi. New Delhi, India : Kitab Bhavan, 2008.
Sunan al-Nasā’ī bi-sharh al-Hafiz Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti , hashiyya Imam al-Sindi. 2 vols. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya,
URLs
Ahadith.co.uk = http://ahadith.co.uk/sunanannasai.php [In Progress].
[6] Ibn Mājah, Abu `Abd-Allah Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Qazvini (d. Qazvin, 824 – d. c. 273/ 889).
"Ibn Majah also produced a Kitdb al-Sunan which comprises 37 kitdbs divided into 1515 bdbs, and contains 4,341 hadtth of which 3,002 exist in the aforementioned five works. It includes also da'tf&nd discredited hadtth. The above six compilations gradually won universal recognition, and are usually referred to as the Six Books." (CHAL 2: 276-7).
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سُنن ابن ماجه
Ibn Mājah
Sunan Ibn Mājah. 2 vols. ed. Muhammad Fu'ad `Abd al-Baqi, Cairo: XXXX, 1952-3.
Sunan Ibn Mājah. 2 vols. ed. Muhammad Fu'ad `Abd al-Baqi, Cairo: XXXX, 1972.
Sunan Ibn Mājah. 5 vols., Riyadh : Dar-us-Salam Publications, 2578 pp.
Sunan lbn Mājah. ed. M. M. al-A 'zami. 4 vols. Riyadh, 1983.
Sunan Ibn-i-Majah [Arabic/English, ED. Ansari, Muhammad Tufail], Lahore: Kazi Publications, 1993.
Sunan Ibn Mājah : the sixth correct Tradition of the Prophetic Sunna, English - Arabic text. In 4 vols. trans. Mohammad Mahdi al-Sharif. Beirut : Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya, 2008.
URLs
Ahadith.co.uk = http://ahadith.co.uk/ibnmajah.php
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[6B] al-Dārimī, 'Abdullah ibn 'Abd al-Rahman (b. Samarqand, 181/797 - d. c. 250/865).
The Sunan/ Musnad/ al-Jāmiʿ of al-Dārimī.
"This author had a work entitled Kitab al-Sunan or al-Musnad al-jami` which was musannaf, not musnad, though its author so named it. It consists of 1,363 hadtih distributed over 23 kitdas, each divided into babs, arranged in the legal order. The author examines the credibility of narrators and discusses legal points in an original, independent manner, but the book lacks consistency and many of its isnads are of the interrupted categories. Some, however, grade it higher than Ibn Majah's book and include it among the Six Works instead of the latter's work." (CHAL 2: 277).
"The utility of the Sunan comes in the first sixth of the book, which is a veritable excursus on the ahl al-sunna wa-l-jamāʿa worldview and methodology. Through an assortment of Prophetic ḥadīths and transmitted opinions from Companions and Successor scholars, these chapters cover areas from the condemnation of raʾy (independent legal reasoning) and hypothetical fiqh (jurisprudence) to the centrality of ḥadīth, the rules of ḥadīth transmission, and the legal thought of the early Muslim community" (Jonathan A. C. Brown, art. al-Dārimī in EI3 ).
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Sunan/ Musnad/ al-Jāmiʿ
Sunan al-Dārimī, ed. Fawwaz Ahmad Zamarli and Khalid al-Sab` al-`Alami. Cairo: XXXX, 1987.
Sunan al-Dārimī, ed. Muhammad Ahmad Duhman, 2 vols. n,p,. n.d.
Musnad/Sunan al-Darimi. ed. Husayn Salim Asad, Dar al-Maghni, 1420 AH / 2000 / Dar al-Mughni, 1431/2000.
Archive PDf. = https://archive.org/details/sunan_darimi
Musnad al-Darimi
For further details refer:
Brown, Jonathan A.C., “al-Dārimī”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Edited by: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson. Consulted online on 08 April 2018 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_25887> First published online: 2012
OTHER SIGNIFICANT SUNNI HADITH COLLECTIONS.
Ibn Khuzaymah, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ishaq (b. Nishapur, 223/837) – d. 311/ 923),
A Shafi'i jurist.
أبو بكر محمد بن إسحاق بن خزيمة.
Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Khuzaymah
Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Khuzaymah. ed. M. M. al-A`zami 4 vols. Beirut: al-Maktab al-lslami, no date
Muhammad Ibn Ḥibbān ibn Ahmad al-Tamimi al-Busti (d. 354/965)
صحيح ابن حبان
Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān = al-Taqasim wa al-Anwa`,
"This author's compilation, al-Musnad al-sahih 'ala a-taqasim wa'1-anwa', is said to follow closely the Sahihs of al-Bukharl and Muslim in authenticity; but its arrangement is neither that of musannaf nor that of musnad. Hence it is difficult to use as a reference. It was rearranged into chapters by 'Alli b. Balban (d. 739/1339), who called it al-Ihsan fi taqrib al-Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Hibban. Moreover, Nur al-Din 'Alli b. Abl Bakr al-Haythami (d. 807/1405), in his book Mawarid al-zam'an ila zawa'id Ibn Hibban, comprising several chapters arranged in the legal order, lists 2,647 hadiths included in Ibn Hibban's Musnad but not existing in the Sahihs of al-Bukhari and Muslim" (CHAL 2: 277)..
Select Modern Printings.
Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān. ed. Ahmad Muhammad Shakir. ? vols. Cairo : XXXX, 1952,
Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān ... al-Taqasim wa al-Anwa`. 8 vols. Beirut: Dar Ibn Hazm, 2012, (see images above).
Kitab al-majruhin. 3 vols . Aleppo: Dar al-Wa'y, 1396/XXX.
al-Tabarānī (d. 360/971)
al-Dāraquṭnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar al-Dāraquṭnī (b. Baghdad 306/918 - d. 385/995).
A Shāfiʿī school Sunni Muslim. Prolific Hadith expert and markedly anti-kalām ("Theology") scholar.
دارقطني، علي بن عمر
"In al-Ilzamat 'ala'l-Bukhdri wa-Muslim the author compiles hadith which fulfil the prerequisites of al-Bukhari and Muslim and therefore could have been included in their Sahihs, This type is known as istidrak (plural, istidrakaf), i.e. readjustment by additions. Al-Daraqutnl chose the term ilfzamat i.e. "those which must be accepted", for emphasis. Unlike our author's larger compilation, al-Sunan, in which he treats only legal points, al-llt(dmdt ranks high among sahih compilations" (CHAL 2: 279)..
W-Cat Identities: http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n83055955/
Josef van Ess
Traditionistische Polemik gegen 'Amr b. 'Ubaid. Zu einem Text des 'Ali b. 'Umar ad-Dâraqutnî. Beirut 1967 (2nd edition 2004). 74 pp. german, 16 pp. arabic, 2 tables.
"In this work, Josef van Ess examines the polemic writings of the lexicographer ʿAlī b. ʿUmar ad-Dāraquṭnī from Bagdad (d. 385/995), directed against the muʿtazili scholar ʿAmr b. ʿUbaid. Van Ess translates and interpretes this satire, correcting the text and adding valuable background information, such as Ḥadīṯs and juridical contestations. His analysis offers a better access to the whole text and to other traditions about ʿAmr b. ʿUbaid, which have been maintained in the Taʾrīḫ Baġdād"
See : .https://www.orient-institut.org/publications/bts-beiruter-texte-und-stud...
Kitāb fīhi arbaʻūn ḥadīthan min musnad Burayd ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Abī Burdah ʻan jaddih, ʻan Abī Mūsá al-Ashʻarī (Min al-turāth al-Islāmī).
Robson, James,
'al-Darakutnl', Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edn (EI2), ADD,
Brown, Jonathan A.C.,
The canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, Leiden 2007
Criticism of the proto-hadith canon. Al-Daraqutni’s adjustment of al-Bukhari and Muslim’s Sahihs, Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies 15/1 (2004), 1–37
“al-Dāraquṭnī”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Edited by: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson. Consulted online on 06 April 2018 =
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_25875>
First published online: 2012. First print edition: 9789004225459, 2012, 2012-3
Select Modern Printings.
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Sunan al-Dāraquṭnī, ed. Muḥammad Shams al-Ḥaqq ʻAẓīmābādī; Ḥusayn ibn Muḥsin al-Anṣārī Yamānī. al-Dihlī : al-Maṭbaʻ al-Anṣārī : al-Maṭbaʻ al-Fārūqī, [1892].
al-Daraqutnl, Sunan al-Daraqutni, ed. 'Abdallah Hashim al-Madanl, 4 vols. Cairo: Dar al-Mahasin li-l-Tiba'a, 1386/1966.
Sunan al-Dāraquṭnī / taʾlīf al-Imām ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar al-Dāraquṭnī ; wa-badhīluh al-taʻlīq al-mughnī ʻalá al-Dāraquṭnī ; taʾlīf Abī al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad Shams al-Ḥaqq al-ʻAẓīm Ābādī ; ʻuniya bi-taṣḥīḥih ... al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh Hāshim Yamānī al-Madanī. 4 vols. al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah : s.n., 1966. SEE :
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001404499
Sunan al-Dāraquṭnī / taʹlīf ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar al-Dāraquṭnī ; wa-bi-dhaylihi al-Taʻlīq al-Mughnī ʻalá al-Dāraquṭnī / taʹlīf Abī al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad Shams al-Ḥaqq al-ʻAẓīmābādī. 4 vols. Cairo : Dār al-Maḥāsin lil-Ṭibāʻah, [1980]
Sunan al-Dāraquṭnī + Comm. XX vols. of al-ʻAẓīmābādī. Beirut: XXXX, 1986.
Sunan al-Dāraquṭnī, wa bi-dhaylih, al-taʻlīq al-mughnī ʻalá al-Dāraquṭnī / li-Abī al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad Shams al-Ḥaqq al-ʻAẓīmābādī. 6 vols. Beirut: Dār Iḥyāʼ al-Turāth al-ʻArabī / Muʼassasat al-Tārīkh al-ʻArabī, 1993 + Muʼassasat al-Risālah, 2004.
Sunan al-Dāraquṭnī - ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar al-Dāraquṭnī. Wa-bi-dhaylih, al-Taʻlīq al-mughnī ʻalá al-Dāraquṭnī / li-Abī al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad Shams al-Ḥaqq al-ʻAẓīmābādī. 6 vols. Beirut : Muʼassasat al-Risālah, 2004
Sunan al-Dāraquṭnī, ed. ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyá Ghassānī. Beirut : Dār al-Fikr, 2005.
Kitab al-ilzamat wa-l-tataban ('The Book Suggested Additions and Revisions') by al-Daraqutni ...
Taʻlīqāt al-Dāraquṭnī ʻalá al-Majrūḥīn li-Ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī; wa-maʻahu nuqūlāt min Kitāb al-ḍuʻafāʼ lil-Sājī min riwāyat Ibn Shāqlā ʻan al-Iyādī bih / taḥqīq Khalīl ibn Muḥammad al-ʻArabī. 2nd ed. Cairo al-Fārūq al-Ḥadīthah, 2001.
URLs
Hathi Trust : https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006020296
al-Hākim, Muhammad ibn `Abd-Allah al-Nīsābūrī (d. 405/1014).
المستدرك على الصحيحين
المستدرك على الصحيحين = Al-Mustadrak 'ala al-Ṣaḥīḥayn / Supplement to the Ṣaḥīḥayn of al‑Bukhārī and Muslim b. Ḥajjāj (see above).
al-Mustadrak 'ala al-Ṣaḥīḥayn. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyya, 1411/1990.
al-Bayhaqī (d. 458/1066).
al-Sunan al-kubra.. 10 vols. Hyderabad, 1344/1925.
Muhyi al-Dln Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (d. 676/1278),
Muslim‘ al-Ṣaḥīḥ with commentary of al-Nawawi 18 vols, ed. Mahmud Tawfiq, Cairo: XXXX., 1349/1930
Al-Manhaj fl sharh sahib Muslim, ed. 'Ali 'Abd al-Hamid Abu al-Khayr, 19 vols. Beirut: Dar al-Khayr, 1420/1999
al-Musnad al-mustakhrfi 'al ... al-lmam Muslim. 4 vols. Beirut, 1996. ???
al-Tabrīzī, Muhammad ibn `Abd Allāh al-Khaṭīb (d. c. 741/1340)
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Mishkat = Mishkat al-maṣābīḥ. 3 vols. Beirut: al-Maktab al-Islām.1405/1985.
Mishkat al-maṣābīḥ trans. James Robson, 2 vols. Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf. 1975.
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Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalanl, Ahmad ibn Nur al-Dln (d. 852/1449)
"His Fath al-Bari 'ala Sahih al-Bukhari (Cairo 1321-2 H, 13 vols) is an encyclopaedic, and probably the greatest, commentary on al-Bukhari's Sahfh, incorporating valuable information, biographical data on narrators, useful linguistic details and interesting anecdotes. Attempts are made here to account for al-Bukhari's action in placing hadith or parts thereof where they seem to be misplaced, and references are made to locations of scattered versions of an individual hadith" (CHAL2:281). .
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Fath al-bari', ed. Mustafa Babi al-Halabi. XX vols. Cairo: XXXX, 1959.
Fath al-bari', ed . Cairo: al-Matba`ah al-Salafiyya, 1380/ 1959-60.
Fath al-bari', ed. Sa'd al-Din al-Khatib and Muhammad Fu'ad 'Abd al-Baqi. 17 vols. Beirut: Dar al-Ma'arif, 1959
Lisan al-mizan (Hyderabad, 1329-31)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY - Hadith Literatures and Hadith Criticism
Abbott, Nabia.
`Hadith Literature II : Collection and transmission of Hadith' in The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature : Arabic Literature to the `Umayyad Period, 289-298. Ed. A F. L. Beeston et al. London, Cambridge: CUP., 1983.
`Abd al-Rauf, Mohammad,
'Hadith Literature - I: The Development of the Science of Hadith', in Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, i: Arabic Literature until the End of the Umayyad Period, eds. A. F. L. Beeston et al., London: Cambridge University Press) 1.
Burton, John.
An Introduction to the Hadith, Edinburgh : 1994.
Dickinson, Eerik.
The Development of Early Sunnite Hadith Criticism, The Taqdima of Ibn Abi Hatim Al-Razi (240 854-327 938). Leiden ; Boston; Koln : Brill Academic, 2001.
GAL = Carl Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Leiden 1937-49
GAS = F. Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. I, Leiden 1967
GdQ = Th. Nöldeke, F. Schwally a.o., Geschichte des Qorns , Leipzig 1909-38'
Graham, W. A.
Divine Word and Prophetic Word in Early Islam. A reconsideration of the sources, with special reference to the divine saying or Hadith qudsi, The Hague/Paris., 1977
Ignaz Goldziher,
Muslim Studies II, ed. S. M. Stern Chicago: Aldine Atherton, 1971.
Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law. Translated by Andras and Ruth Hamori. Princeton. 1981 (1910).
Juynboll, Gautier. H . A.
The Authenticity of the Tradition Literature, Discussions in Modern Egypt. Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1969.
Muslim Tradition: Studies in Chronology, Provenance and Authorship of Early Hadith. Cambridge, 1983.
`Some new ideas on the development of sunna as a technical term in early Islam', in Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, X, 1987, 97-118,
Studies on the Origins and Uses of Islamic Hadith. Variorum, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot 1996
Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith. Brill: Leiden-Boston, 2007.
Robson, James,
An Introduction to the Science of Tradition, being al-Madkhal ila ma'rifat al-lklifl bi· AI Hakim Abu 'Abdallah Mubammad b. 'Abdallah al-Naisaburi. London: XXXX 1953.
Harald Motzki ed.
Hadith: Origins and Developments (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, ‘The Formation of the Classical Islamic World Series, 28’, 2004), 394 pp. ISBN 0–860–78704–4.
Review by Recep Senturk, Center for Islamic Studies, Istanbul : "Harald Motzki has produced an excellent reference work for students and researchers. It brings together articles by sixteen well-known scholars including himself. J. Fueck, Joseph Schacht, John Burton, Ignaz Goldziher, Gregor Schoeler, Etan Kohlberg, Joseph Horovitz, James Robson, G. H. A. Juynboll, Michael Cook, J. H. Kramers, R. Marston Speight, M. J. Kister, Albrecht Noth and Maher Jarrar. These essays may be seen as an Orientalist metanarrative on hadith...The book aims to present the evolution of the views of Western Orientalists on the origins of hadith ." (From the Journal of Islamic Studies, Oxford UK).
`The Muṣannaf of ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Sanʿānī as a Source of Authentic Aḥādīth of the First Century A. H.' in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Jan., 1991), pp. 1-21
Lucas, Scott Cameron,
'The Arts of Hadlth Compilation and Criticism: the Study of the Emergence of Sunnism in the Third/Ninth Century', Ph.D. diss., 2 vols. (University of Chicago, 2002.
Constructive Critics, Hadith Literature, and the Articulation of Sunni Islam : The Legacy of the Generation of Ibn Sa`d, Ibn Ma'in, and Ibn Hanbal. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004.
Schacht, Joseph.
`A Revaluation of Islamic Traditions' in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1949, 143-54
The Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence. Oxford 1950.
Wensinck, Arent Jan (1882-1939).
A Handbook of Early Muḥammadan Tradition: Alphabetically Arranged. Leiden: Brill, 1927 [rep. 1971].
et al., Concordance et indices de la tradition musulmane. 8 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1936–88.
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ADDITIONS
Ibn `Uyayna
the Kitab al-Jawami` fi'l-sunan wa'l-abwab
al-'Uqayli, Muhammad ibn 'Amr.
Kitb al-du`afa al-kabir ed. Abd al-Mu`ti Amin Qal`aji, Beirut : XXXX, 1984
Kitab al-du`afa.'. 4 vols. Riyadh: Dar al-Sumay'i, 2000.
Brill EI3 Abrahamov, Binyamin, “al-Dārimī, Abū Saʿīd”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Edited by: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson. Consulted online on 07 April 2018 First published online: 2015.
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