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Sahih Muslim (Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
: ???? ????, ?a?i? Muslim, full title "Al-Musnadu Al-Sahihu bi Naklil Adli") is one of the Six major collections
Six major Hadith collections

The six major Hadith Hadith collections are the works of some individuals from Islamic scholars who by their own initiative started collecting sayings that people attributed to Muhammad approximately 200 years after his death....
 of the hadith
Hadith

Hadith are oral traditions relating to the words and deeds of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad. Hadith collections are regarded by all traditional madhab as important tools for determining the Muslim way of life, the sunnah....
 in Sunni Islam, oral traditions relating to the words and deeds of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad
Muhammad

Muhammad Patronymic#Arabic Abd Allah ibn Abd al Muttalib , is the founder of the Major religious groups of Islam and is regarded by Muslims as a Rasul and prophet of , the last and the greatest law-bearer in a series of prophets....
. It is the second most famous hadith collection among Sunni Muslims and it is considered as the most authentic book of Hadith after Sahih Al-Bukhari. It was collected by Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj

Abul Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Qushayri al-Nisapuri , Muslim Author of the second most widely recognized collection of Hadith in Sunni Islam, "Sahih Muslim", "Muslim's authentic "....
, also known as Imam Muslim.

Collection
Imam Muslim (Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj

Abul Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Qushayri al-Nisapuri , Muslim Author of the second most widely recognized collection of Hadith in Sunni Islam, "Sahih Muslim", "Muslim's authentic "....
) was born in 202 AH
Islamic calendar

The Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar or Hijri calendar is a lunar calendar used to date events in many predominantly Muslim countries, and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which to celebrate Islamic holy days and festivals....
 in Nishapur
Nishapur

Nishapur, or Neyshabur , is a city in the Razavi Khorasan province in northeastern Iran, situated in a fertile plain at the foot of the Mount Binalud, near the regional capital of Mashhad....
 (817/818CE) and died in 261AH (874/875CE)also in Nishapur.






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Sahih Muslim (Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
: ???? ????, ?a?i? Muslim, full title "Al-Musnadu Al-Sahihu bi Naklil Adli") is one of the Six major collections
Six major Hadith collections

The six major Hadith Hadith collections are the works of some individuals from Islamic scholars who by their own initiative started collecting sayings that people attributed to Muhammad approximately 200 years after his death....
 of the hadith
Hadith

Hadith are oral traditions relating to the words and deeds of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad. Hadith collections are regarded by all traditional madhab as important tools for determining the Muslim way of life, the sunnah....
 in Sunni Islam, oral traditions relating to the words and deeds of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad
Muhammad

Muhammad Patronymic#Arabic Abd Allah ibn Abd al Muttalib , is the founder of the Major religious groups of Islam and is regarded by Muslims as a Rasul and prophet of , the last and the greatest law-bearer in a series of prophets....
. It is the second most famous hadith collection among Sunni Muslims and it is considered as the most authentic book of Hadith after Sahih Al-Bukhari. It was collected by Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj

Abul Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Qushayri al-Nisapuri , Muslim Author of the second most widely recognized collection of Hadith in Sunni Islam, "Sahih Muslim", "Muslim's authentic "....
, also known as Imam Muslim.

Collection


Imam Muslim (Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj

Abul Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Qushayri al-Nisapuri , Muslim Author of the second most widely recognized collection of Hadith in Sunni Islam, "Sahih Muslim", "Muslim's authentic "....
) was born in 202 AH
Islamic calendar

The Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar or Hijri calendar is a lunar calendar used to date events in many predominantly Muslim countries, and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which to celebrate Islamic holy days and festivals....
 in Nishapur
Nishapur

Nishapur, or Neyshabur , is a city in the Razavi Khorasan province in northeastern Iran, situated in a fertile plain at the foot of the Mount Binalud, near the regional capital of Mashhad....
 (817/818CE) and died in 261AH (874/875CE)also in Nishapur. He traveled widely to gather his collection of ahadith (plural of hadith), including to Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt. Out of 300,000 hadith which he evaluated, approximately 4,000 were extracted for inclusion into his collection based on stringent acceptance criteria. Each report in his collection was checked for compatibility with the Qur'an
Qur'an

The Qur?an is the central religious text of Islam. Muslims believe the Qur?an to be the book of divine guidance and direction for mankind, and consider the original Arabic text to be the final revelation of God....
, and the veracity of the chain of reporters had to be painstakingly established. Sunni Muslims consider it the second most authentic hadith collection, after the Sahih Bukhari
Sahih Bukhari

The authentic collection...
.

However it is important to realize that Imam Muslim never claimed to collect all authentic traditions. He tried to collect only traditions that all Muslims should agree on about accuracy. There are other scholars who worked as Muslim did and collected other authentic reports.

According to Munziri, there are a total of 2200 hadiths (with no repetition) in Sahih Muslim. This would bring the total of Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim to 3000 ahadith. According to most Hadith scholars, there are 1400 authentic hadiths that are reported in other books (mainly the Six major Hadith collections
Six major Hadith collections

The six major Hadith Hadith collections are the works of some individuals from Islamic scholars who by their own initiative started collecting sayings that people attributed to Muhammad approximately 200 years after his death....
).

Contents


Among its contents:
  • Hadith of the pond of Khumm
    Hadith of the pond of Khumm

    The Hadith of the pond of Khumm refers to the saying about a historical event crucial to Islamic history. This event took place on March 10 632 AD at a place called Ghadir Khumm, which is located near the city of al-Juhfah, Saudi Arabia....
  • Hadith of the two weighty things
    Hadith of the two weighty things

    The Hadith al-Thaqalayn refers to a saying about al-Thaqalayn, which translates to "the two weighty things." In this hadith Muhammad referred to the Qur'an and Ahl al-Bayt as the two weighty things....
  • Hadith of the Twelve Successors
    Hadith of the Twelve Successors

    The Hadith of the Twelve Successors is a famous hadith in Islam, in which the Islamic prophet Muhammad speaks about twelve Muslim rulers succeeding him....
  • Hadith of the Cloak
    Hadith of The Cloak

    #REDIRECT Ahl al-Kisa...
  • Hadith of Mubahela
    Hadith of Mubahela

    The Hadith of Mubahela is Muslim tradition about a debate of the [Islamic Prophet]] Muhammad with the Christianity of Najran and summoned the members of his household, the Ahl al-Bayt....
  • Hadith of the pen and paper
    Hadith of the pen and paper

    The Hadith of the pen and paper is a famous Hadith in Islam about an event when the Islamic prophet Muhammad was prevented from writing out his will....
  • Hadith of Umar's speech of forbidding Mut'ah
    Hadith of Umar's speech of forbidding Mut'ah

    A famous recorded oral tradition among Muslims is about public speech held by Umar ibn al-Khattab, whom Sunni Muslims regard as the second Rashidun....
  • Some hadith regarding Aisha's age at marriage.


The Hadith of Qur'an and Sunnah
Hadith of Qur'an and Sunnah

The Hadith about the Quran and Sunnah refers to a Hadith, or oral tradition about the words and deeds of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. Sunni Muslims accept this Hadith as Sahih , whereas the Shi'a Muslims reject this Hadith as Mawdoo ....
 is not included.

Views


Muslims have differing view of this collection. Sunni regard this collection as the second most authentic of their Six major Hadith collections
Six major Hadith collections

The six major Hadith Hadith collections are the works of some individuals from Islamic scholars who by their own initiative started collecting sayings that people attributed to Muhammad approximately 200 years after his death....
, containing only Sahih
Sahih

Sahih is an Islamic term that means authentic. It is commonly used to describe the authenticity of a Hadith....
 hadith, an honor it shares only with Sahih Bukhari
Sahih Bukhari

The authentic collection...
, both being referred to as the Two Sahihs
Two Sahihs

Two Sahihs is a Sunni Islamic Term used to refer to Sahih Muslim and Sahih Bukhari, since they are considered to contain only Sahih Hadith.The Six major Hadith collections is broader scope of hadith collections accepted by Sunnis....
. Shia Muslims dismiss many parts of it as fabrications or untrustworthy.

Commentaries and translations

  • Fath al-Mulhim
    Fath al-Mulhim

    Fath al-Mulhim Sharh Sahih Muslim is a commentary on Sahih Muslim, written by Shabbir Ahmad Usmani.Al-Kawthari regarded Allama Shabbir Usmani's incomplete commentary as the best on Sahih Muslim....
  • Takmilat Fath al-Mulhim
    Takmilat Fath al-Mulhim

    Takmilat Fath al-Mulhim is arguably the most important work of Muhammad Taqi Usmani in Arabic, in which he completed in six volumes the commentary of Shabbir Ahmad Usmani on Sahih Muslim....
  • Al Minhaj Be Sharh Sahih Muslim
  • Sahih Muslim (Siddiqui)
    Sahih Muslim (Siddiqui)

    Sahih Muslim is the name of an 8 volume English translation of Sahih Muslim, translated by Islamic scholar Abd-al-Hamid Siddiqui . The text is used in the USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts...
  • Summarized Sahih Muslim
    Summarized Sahih Muslim

    Summarized Sahih Muslim is the name of a 2 volume translation of Sahih Muslim, translated in English by Islamic scholar Abd-al-Hamid Siddiqui....
  • Sharh Sahih Muslim (Allama Ghulam Rasool Saeedi)


See also

  • List of Sunni books
    List of Sunni books

    Hadith collectionsPrimary sources*Sahih al-Bukhari of Muhammad al-Bukhari*Sahih Muslim of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj*Sunan al-Sughra of Al-Nasa'i...


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