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Most famous

Sunni six major collections (Al-Sihah al-Sittah): Sahih al-Bukhari Sahih Muslim al-Sunan al-Sughra Sunan Abi Dawood Sunan al-Tirmidhi Sunan Ibn Maja/Al-Muwatta Shi'a collections: Nahj al-Balagha "The Four Books" (Al-Kutub Al-Arb'ah) Kitab al-Kafi of Kulainy Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq Tahdhib al-Ahkam by Shaikh Tusi al-Istibsar by Shaykh Tusi Ibadi collections: al-Jami' as-Sahih by al-Rabi' ibn Habib Tartib al-Musnad by al-Warijlani

Sunni collections

Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal — 780-855 Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah — 923 Sahih Ibn Hibbaan — 965 Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain — 1014 Mawdu'at al-Kubra— 1128-1217 Riyadh as-Saaliheen — 1233 - 1278 Mishkat al-Masabih - 1340 Talkhis al-Mustadrak — 1274-1348 Majma al-Zawa'id — 1335-1405 Bulugh al-Maram — 1372-1449 Kanz al-Ummal — 1500th Zujajat al-Masabih - 1960 Minhaj us Sawi — 2003

Shi'a collections

The book of Sulaym ibn Qays — 600th Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya — 678-713 Wasael ush-Shia — 1600s Bihar al-Anwar — 1600s Haqq al-Yaqeen — 1600s Sharh Usul al-Kafi — ?-1081

Mu'tazili collections

Nahj with comments — ?-1258

Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain or Mustadrak al-Hakim (Arabic: المستدرك على الصحيحين Al-Mustadrak 'ala al-Sahîhayn) is a five volume hadith collection written by Hakim al-Nishaburi d. 405H.

Contents 1 History 2 Views 2.1 Sunni view 2.2 Shi'a view 3 Content 4 See also 5 References

He wrote it in the year 393 AH (1002-1003 CE), i.e. when he was 72 years old. It contained 9045 hadith ^[1]. He claimed all hadith in it were authentic according to the conditions of either Sahih Bukhari or Sahih Muslim or both ^[2]

The statement of authenticity was not accepted by a number of prominent later Sunni scholars.

• Al-Dhahabi, a 14th century Sunni Shafi'i Islamic scholar made an abridged version of the collection named Talkhis al-Mustadrak where he commented on its authenticity. It has become the habit of scholars today working in the field of hadîth, when compiling them and determining their authenticity, to say things like "It is authenticated by al-Hâkim and al-Dhahabî concurs". In doing so, they are referring to al-Dhahabi's Talkhîs, his abridgement of the Mustadrak that is often published along with it in its margins. ^[3].

Dhahabi also wrote ^[4]:

“

The Mustadrak contains a lot of hadîth that conform to the conditions of authenticity of both (al-Bukhârî and Muslim) as well as a number of hadîth conforming to the conditions of either one of them. Perhaps the total number of such hadîth comprises a third of the book or less. A lot of the book is hadîth that appear on the surface to be on the conditions of one or both of them, but that have hidden within them subtle but substantial defects. A portion of the book contains chains of transmission that are good and acceptable. This is about a fourth of the book. The rest of the book is rejected and extremely strange hadîth. At the same time, there are about one hundred hadîth that the heart declares to be false...

”

adh-Dhahabi lamented:

“

It would have been better if al-Hakim had never compiled it."[5]

”

• Ibn Hajar Asqalani, a 15th century Sunni Islamic scholar states that Mawdu'at al-Kubra is as unreliable in its atrributing the grade of being "forged" to certain ahadith as al-Hakim's Mustadrak is unreliable in its declaring the grade of "sound" or Sahih to many ahadith ^[6].

Shi'a view that this hadith collection contains Sahih hadith in a larger degree than Sunnis do.

Among its content can be found:

• Hadith of the Twelve Successors

List of Sunni books

1. ^ These figures are taken from the editorial introduction of Ibn al-Mulaqqin's Mukhtasar Istidrâk al-Dhahabî, 8-9 [1]
2. ^ http://members.cox.net/arshad/hadithcol.html
3. ^ http://www.islamtoday.net//english/show_detail_section.cfm?q_id=839&main_cat_id=11
4. ^ in his biographical encyclopedia entitled Siyar A`lâm al-Nubalâ' "Biographies of Outstanding Personalities" [2]
5. ^ [3]
6. ^ stated in al-Qawl al-Musaddad fil-Dhabb `an Musnad al-Imam Ahmad (published by Shaykh Ahmad Shakir in his edition of the Musnad) [4]