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Six major Hadith collections
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The Six major Hadith collections (Arabic: Al-Sihah al-Sittah) are the works of some individuals Islamic scholars who by their own initiative started collecting sayings that people attributed to Muhammad approximately 200 years after his death.
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The name "Al-Sihah al-Sittah" translates literarly to "The Six Authentic", even though they are not all considered authentic (sahih), except for the first two collections.
All six collectors of these ahadith lived in modern-day Iran or Uzbekistan (unless Imam Malik is included.) Some were ethnically Persian, such as Bukhari [1] and Ibn Maja, while others were ethnically Arab, such as Imam Muslim (from the Quraysh tribe [2]) and Al-Tirmidhi (from the Banu Sulaym [3]).
Due to this, some people state that they were all Persian and not Arabs [4].
Sunni Muslims view the Six major Hadith collections as their most important. They are, in order of importance [5]:
- Sahih Bukhari, collected by al-Bukhari (d. 870), included 7275 hadiths
- Sahih Muslim, collected by Muslim b. al-Hajjaj (d. 875), included 9200
- Sunan al-Sughra, collected by al-Nasa'i (d. 915)
- Sunan Abi Da'ud, collected by Abu Da'ud (d. 888)
- Sunan al-Tirmidhi, collected by al-Tirmidhi (d. 892)
- This one is disputed. Sometimes its referred to Al-Muwatta, collected by Imam Malik (d. 796) and sometimes it is referred to Sunan Ibn Maja, collected by Ibn Maja (d. 886). Some people even consider Sunan al-Darami to be the sixth one[citation needed].
The two first are referred to as the Two Sahihs which indicates that they are authentic.
Shia’s have their own collections and reject the claims of authenticity that Sunni attribute to the six collections [6].