The Six Books · Islam Museum

Skip to content

Depth

At a glance

Region: Persia & Central Asia
Review: Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Walk this pathway

5steps · 30min · newcomer · student

Al-Bukhari
The soundest book after God's book.
Al Bukhari · Sahih al-Bukhari · Bukhara
Muslim
The second Sahih: Naysaburi precision.
Muslim Ibn Al Hajjaj · Sahih Muslim
Al-Tirmidhi
The Jami' and the Shama'il.
Al-Tirmidhi, Muhammad ibn Isa · Jami' al-Tirmidhi
The Sunans
Abu Dawud, Nasa'i and Ibn Majah.
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani · al-Nasa'i · Ibn Majah
Before and after
The Muwatta and later collections.
Muwatta of Imam Malik · The Six Books

Do first:: Islam in Thirty Minutes

Overview

A path through the great hadith compilations and their narrators: al-Bukhari, Muslim, al-Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, al-Nasa'i and Ibn Majah.

Sources

Wikidata

Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “The Six Books”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/exhibits/path-six-books/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON