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• It contains the fewest da‘eef (weak) hadiths among the six books after Sahih al-Bukhari &
Sahih Muslim
• There is not a single mawdhoo (fabricated) hadith in it.
6. Sunan of ibn Majah:
• It was compiled by Ibn Mājah.
• It is widely considered to be the sixth of the six collection of Ḥadīth .
• It consists of 4341 ahadith in 37 chapters.
• It includes 1339 additional aḥādīth, which are not found in the other five major books of
Ḥadīth.
These four books together with the Sahihayn of Bukhari and Muslim have come to be known
as the SihahSitta.
‘The Six Sound Collections’. With their compilation the Shaih/ Sunan movement and the
Hadith tradition
reached its climax.
Shia Collections
Like Sunni Muslims Shia Muslims also accepted Hadiths as source of understanding the
Quran and as guidance
in everyday matters. They however, only consider those Hadiths as most reliable that based
on the authority of
Hazrat Ali and the twelve imams, who are the descendants of Hazrat Fatima and Hazrat Ali.
The prominent Shia
collections are:
1. Al-Kafi fi ilm al-din (The sufficient book) is a Shia collection of Hadith compiled by the
Abu
JafarMuhammad ibn Yaqub al-Kulayni. It has three sections Usul al Kafi which is related to
history
morals and ethics prayers and worship and the Quran, Furu al-Kafi which is about with
practical and legal
issues and Raudat al-Kafi which includes various Hadiths transmitted from the imams.
Altogether al-Kafi
comprises over 16000 Hadiths.