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the form of Sunan / Sahih/ Musannaf books.
• A sunan was organized topic wise and thus could easily be used as a large reference and it
focused on
Hadith Nabvi (Prophetic Hadith) with full isnad. The scholars who compiled the sunnan,
devoted great
efforts in ensuring the authenticity of its contents and only used Hadiths that were proven
authentic.
This emphasis on authenticity led many of the collections produced in the sunan movement
to be called
sahih books by the authors or the Muslims readers.
• Foremost amongst the Muhadditheen(scholars) were Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ismail
al-Bukhari
(d.870) and his student Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (d.875). Their books were the first of ‘sahih
movement’.
The Sahihayn (the two sahihs) of Bukhari and Muslim became the most famous books of
Hadith in sunni
Islam.
1. Sahih of Bukhari:
• It was compiled by Muhammad bin Ismail al-Bukhari.
• He devoted 16 years to sifting the Hadiths that he included in his Sahih(Bukhari) from a
pool of 600000
hadiths.
• It contains 97 chapters according to topics. There are 7397 full Hadiths with full isnad in
Sahih of Bukhari
However, these would only be 2762 if the repetitions are excluded.
• Sunni Muslims regard it as the most authentic collection of Hadith.
2. Sahih of Muslim:
• It was compiled by Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj.
• He traveled widely to gather his collection of ahadith and Out of 300,000 hadith 9200 were
accepted as
authentic. There are a total of 2,200 hadiths without repetition.