The Hadith Library
The hadith collections in the museum: browse each work by book and report, and from every report to its page with its chain and links.
Each card is a work with reports verified into the museum; numbering follows the editions named on each report's page.
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Muwatta of Imam Malik
2861 reports · 31 books The Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas (d. 179 AH): one of the earliest hadith and jurisprudence works arranged by chapter, compiled in Medina. Its most widely read transmission is the recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi. - Work
Sahih Muslim
219 reports The Musnad al-Sahih of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Naysaburi (d. 261 AH): the second most celebrated hadith collection, famed for gathering the variant transmissions of each report in one place and for its introductory essay that became a founding text of hadith method. - Work
al-Arba'un al-Nawawiyya (Nawawi's Forty)
42 reports The famous collection of concise hadiths that Imam Abu Zakariyya Yahya al-Nawawi took from Ibn al-Salah's 'al-Ahadith al-Kulliyya' (twenty-six hadiths) and expanded to forty-two, naming it 'al-Arba'un'; widely memorised and much commented upon. - Work
Sahih al-Bukhari
35 reports The Jami' al-Musnad al-Sahih of Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari (d. 256 AH): the best-known chapter-arranged hadith collection, distilled from the hundreds of thousands of reports its author gathered on his journeys, with the chapter headings themselves taught as lessons in jurisprudence. - Work
Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam
8 reports Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali's (d. 795 AH) commentary on fifty hadiths: the twenty-six of Ibn al-Salah's 'al-Ahadith al-Kulliyya', which al-Nawawi brought to forty-two in his 'Arba'un', plus eight hadiths Ibn Rajab added himself to reach fifty, naming it Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam.