Mishkat al-Masabih is an expanded version of Al-Baghawi’s Masabih al-Sunnah by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Khatib Al-Tabrizi. Khatib Al-Tabrizi died 741 AH (1340 or 1341 CE) rendered this version of the original text more accessible to those not having an advanced knowledge of the science of hadith. It contains between…
Abū Dā’ūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ash‘ath ibn Isḥāq al-Azdī al-Sijistānī commonly known simply as Abu Dawud, was a Persian scholar of prophetic hadith who compiled the third of the six “canonical” hadith collections recognized by Sunni Muslims, the Sunan Abu Dāwūd. Abū Dā’ūd was born in Sijistān, and died in 889…
Imam Al Tabarani was born in 260H in Tabariya As-Sham. He narrated Hadiths from more than one thousand scholars (Muhaditheens). He traveled extensively to many regions to quench his thirst of knowledge which includes Syria, Haramayn Tayyibayn, Yemen, Egypt, Baghdad, Kufa, Basra and Isfahan etc. He wrote many Hadith books,…
Al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī full name Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī al-Ḥanafī (d. c. 869) was a Sunni jurist (faqih) and traditionist (muhaddith) of Khorasan, but is mostly remembered as one of the great early authors of Sufism. His full name is: Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ali bin Hasan…
Abū ʻAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah al-Rabʻī al-Qazwīnī 9th century CE) commonly known as Ibn Mājah, was a medieval scholar of hadith of Persian origin. He compiled the last of Sunni Islam’s six canonical hadith collections, Sunan Ibn Mājah.
Sahih Muslim full title: Al-Musnadu Al-Sahihu bi Naklil Adli) is one of the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadith collections) in Sunni Islam. It is highly acclaimed by Sunni Muslims as well as Zaidi Shia Muslims. It is considered the second most authentic hadith collection after Sahih al-Bukhari. It was collected…
Imam al-Bayhaqi was born 994 CE/384 AH in the small town of Khosrowjerd near Sabzevar, then known as Bayhaq, in Khurasan During his lifetime, he became a famous Sunni hadith expert, following the Shafi’i school in fiqh and the Ash’ari school of Islamic Theology.