![]() ![]() ![]() Sahih Muslim is the second among the six most authentic books of Hadith. Position of Sahih Muslim among Sihah Sittah He paid so exclusive attention to the compilation that he himself stated: "If the scholars of Hadith will keep on writing Ahadith for two years then also they will have to depend on this book." I compiled this book selecting Ahadith from a pile of three hundred thousand traditions. ![]() He says: "Whatever traditions I put in this collection are with proof and whatever I rejected are also with proof. Imam Muslim did not rely chiefly on his personal findings but consulted the great scholars of his age, as he himself says: "I did not record the Hadith that was reliable to me, but I only recorded the traditions that were agreed upon by scholars." Also, he would present all traditions to Hafiz Abu Zur'ah Razi and reject the ones about which Hafiz Abu Zur'ah indicated any defect and choose the ones which were sanctioned by Hafiz Abu Zur'ah. Among all these classifications, the classification of Imam Nawawi is the best. Later, the scholars of Hadith have classified it into chapters or sections with their titles. ![]() But in view of the thickness of the book, he did not write their titles. Imam Muslim has compiled his Sahih on the order of 'book and chapter'. Sheikh Fuwad Abdul Baqi has numbered Sahih Muslim and according to him the number of it is 3034. And, with the deletion of repetitions it decreases to four thousand. It is said that the number of traditions in Sahih Muslim is twelve thousand. So, Imam Muslim started this work and completed it in a span of fifteen years. Also, Imam Muslim was grieved at seeing people not differentiating between true and false traditions. Imam Mulsim described the reason of compilation himself in the foreword of the book saying: "A person wished to acquire the teachings of Hadith regarding the fundamentals of religion, practices, reward and punishment etc, so he expressed his desire to Imam Muslim and requested him to compile a book that contains all these things without repetitions. However, the book is renowned with Sahih Muslim. Imam Muslim himself mentions it with this name. The name of the book is 'Al-Musnad Al-Sahih'. (Written by: Mufti Obaidullah Qasmi, Maulana Afzal Qasmi, Mufti Muhammadullah Khalili Qasmi)Īlso read: Introduction to Sahih Muslim by Abu Najm Muhammad Fernando bin al-Iskandar ![]()
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