Kutub al-Sittah

Al - Kutub as - Sitta الكتب الستة (the " Six Books " ) are the six canonical Sunni hadith collections that contain sayings, actions, and statements of the Prophet Mohammed, which be followed as Sunna, as worthy of imitation or in an Islamic society standards are understood. Thus, they are according to the Qur'an, the second source of Islamic jurisprudence.

The two "healthy" Sahih works

• Al - Jami ' as- Saheeh ( الجامع الصحيح, the authentic collection ') by Abu ' Abdallah Muhammad ibn Isma'il al -Bukhari al - Dschu'fi ( أبو عبد الله محمد بن إسماعيل البخاري الجعفي ) died 256 / 870 - The work is based on chapters of Islamic jurisprudence compiled with the aim of the authentic hadith in the case law to provide general validity.

• Al - Jami ' as- Saheeh ( الجامع الصحيح, the authentic collection ') by Abu l -Husayn Muslim ibn al - Hajjaj al - Quschairi to - Naisaburi ( أبو الحسين مسلم بن الحجاج القشيري النيسابوري ), died 261/875. - This work is arranged according to the chapters of Islamic jurisprudence. In contrast to al - Buchhari 's work Muslim has compiled multiple variants to the same statement of the Prophet, have the material departures. The works mentioned by al -Bukhari and Muslim is called in Islamic literature: as- Sahihan الصحيحان / aṣ - ṣaḥīḥān /, ' " the two authentic hadith. "

The so-called " Sunan " works

• Al - Jami ' as- Saheeh fī s- sunan ( الجامع الصحيح في السنن, the authentic collection of the Sunna ') by Abu ' Isa Muhammad ibn' Isa at- Tirmidhi ( أبو عيسى محمد بن عيسى الترمذي ) died 279 / 892 Among the so-called Sunan plants, this work is characterized by the critical remarks of the author of the individual hadith with references to the views of the schools of law. at- Tirmidhi " refers to any tradition, profitability is demonstrated by her that she had ever been considered a skilled law as evidence and argument in the legal practice, in other words, each set on which one has ever called ."

• Kitāb as- Sunan ( كتاب السنن, the book of traditions ') by Abu Dawood Sulaiman ibn al - Ash'ath as- Sidschistani ( أبو داود سليمان بن الأشعث السجستاني ) died 275/888.- The author presented in this work the Sunnah of the Prophet Mohammed from around 500 thousand traditions together. As his student al -Tirmidhi adds Abu Dawud traditions with its isnadkritischen notes that occur more frequently than in Abu Dawud and at- Tirmidhi in his later works. They can be regarded as the first literary evidence of the traditional critique of tradition.

• Kitāb as- Sunan ( كتاب السنن, the book of traditions ') by Abu ' Abd ar -Rahman Ahmad ibn' Ali an- Nasa'i ( أبو عبد الرحمن أحمد بن علي النسائي ) died 303/915. - This work presents a summary of the materials collected by al -Bukhari and Muslim and supplements, especially the Hadith about the ritual life with numerous small items and versions. In the first version of the work, under the title As- Sunan al - kubra, The great Sunnah plant, has an- Nasa'i also "weak" hadiths, their probative value in law and life in the Islamic ritual always remained controversial, considered; This first version is not obtained.

• Kitāb as- Sunan ( كتاب السنن, the book of traditions ') by Abu' Abdallah Muhammad ibn Yazid al - ar Raba'i Qazwini ( أبو عبد الله محمد بن يزيد الربعي القزويني ), known as Ibn Majah ( إبن ماجة ), died 273/887. - Not all of the collected hadiths he kept the tradition of criticism of his time was. Ibn Majah chose his materials from a small number of sources, so his work could be made ​​clearer than eg the collection of an- Nasa'i.

Other Hadith collections

These six hadith collections are the basis of Concordance et indices de la tradition Musulmane, edited by AJ Wensinck et alii ( Brill, Leiden 1936-1988 ); the author of this Hadith Concordance have considered three other works, which always enjoy a high status in the Islamic hadith literature in their work:

• The Sunan works of ad - Darimi ( 797-869 )
• The Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal comprehensive
• And the Muwatta ' of Malik ibn Anas.

The position of the above works in Islamic literature was not without controversy in the centuries after its creation. Critical writings, which even had the two authentic collections to its subject, ( AD 10th century ) emerged in the 4th century Muslim; they showed the weaknesses of supposedly credible and respected in the legal life as probative hadith in al -Bukhari, for example.