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• It contains 54 chapters and does not have legal commentary like Bukhari.
• Muslims kept all narrations of a certain hadith in the same section but without the
commentary
reports from companions and later figures.
Other participants in the Sahih movement also focused on hadith with strong and reliable
isnad but they also
included some weaker hadiths because they were widely used among jurists or because the
authors. Four
of these books attained great renown:
3. Sunan of Abu Daud:
• He was a close student of Ahmad Ibn Hanbal.
• He collected 500,000 hadith in 20 years research, but included only 4,800 in this
collection.5
• He made a series of journeys to meet most of the foremost traditionists of his time and
acquired from
them the most reliable hadiths, quoting sources through which it reached him.
• He collected hadiths which no one had ever assembled together.
4. Jami of Tirmizi:
• He was a disciple of Bukhari.
• It contains 3,956 Ahadith, and has been divided into 50 chapters according to topics.
• His method was that of placing the heading first, then mentioning one or two Ahadith
which were
related to the heading.
• His book bears the distinction of being one of the oldest texts dealing with the difference of
opinion
amongst the various law schools.
• It also includes detailed discussion of their authenticity
5. Sunan of al-Nasai:
• He was a student of Bukhari
• It has about 5,270 hadiths, including repeated narrations. It contains 52 chapters.