Hadith Types and Importance in Islam
What is the hadith of Islam?
Hadith, Arabic Ḥadīth (“News” or “Story”), also spelled Hadīt , record of the traditions or sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, revered and received as a major source of religious law and moral guidance, second only to the authority of the Qurʾān, the holy book of Islam.
What is meant by Hadith Qudsi?
It is a sub-category of hadith which some Muslims regard as the words of God (Arabic: Allah). According to as-Sayyid ash-Sharif al-Jurjani, the Hadith Qudsi differ from the Quran in that the former are "expressed in Muhammad's words", whereas the latter are the "direct words of God".
What are the Hadith texts?
In Islam, the sacred text called the "Hadith," which is Arabic for "narrative" or "report," is a record of Islamic tradition: it is a record of the words and deeds of the prophet Muhammad, his family, and his companions. It is the second most important text in Islam next to the Quran.
What is the difference between Sunni and Shia?
The Sunnis believed Mohammed's friend and advisor Abu Bakr was the rightful “caliph” of Muslims, while Shias thought that his cousin and son-in-law Ali was chosen by Allah to rule. Abu Bakr held the title first until his death, while Ali was crowned caliph fourth after two previous rulers were assassinated.
What to know more about Hadith in Islam?
A hadith is a saying of Muhammad or a report about something he did. Over time, during the first few centuries of Islam, it became obvious that many so-called hadith were in fact spurious sayings that had been fabricated for various motives, at best to encourage believers to act righteously and at worse to corrupt believers' understanding of Islam and to lead them astray. Since Islamic legal scholars were utilizing hadith as an adjunct to the Qur'an in their development of the Islamic legal system, it became critically important to have reliable collections of hadith.
While the early collections of hadith often contained hadith that were of questionable origin, gradually collections of authenticated hadith called sahih(lit. true, correct) were compiled. Such collections were made possible by the development of the science of hadith criticism, a science at the basis of which was a critical analysis of the chain of (oral) transmission (isnad) of the hadith going all the way back to Muhammad.
The two most highly respected collections of hadith are the authenticated collections the Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. (Sahih literally means "correct, true, valid, or sound.") In addition to these, four other collections came to be well-respected, although not to the degree of Bukhari and Muslim's sahih collections. These four other collections are the Sunan of Tirmidhi, Nasa'i, Ibn Majah, and Abu Da'ud. Together these four and the two sahih collections are called the "six books" (al-kutub al-sitta). Two other important collections, in particular, are the Muwatta of Ibn Malik, the founder of the Maliki school of law, and theMusnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the founder of the Hanbali school of law.
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- Sahih al-Bukhari
- صحيح البخاري
- Bulugh al-Maram
- بلوغ المرام
- Sahih Muslim
- صحيح مسلم
- Riyad as-Salihin
- رياض الصالحين
- Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
- الأدب المفرد
- 40 Hadith Qudsi
- الحديث القدسي
- 40 Hadith Nawawi
- الأربعون النووية
- Muwatta Malik
- موطأ مالك
- Sunan Ibn Majah
- سنن ابن ماجه
- Jami` at-Tirmidhi
- جامع الترمذي
- Sunan an-Nasa'i
- سنن النسائي
- Sunan Abi Dawud
- سنن أبي داود
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