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Sahih Muslim
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Muslim
Sahih Muslim is a collection of sayings and deeds of Prophet Muhammad
(pbuh) (also known as the sunnah). The reports of the
Prophet's sayings and deeds are called ahadith. Muslim lived a
couple of centuries after the Prophet's death and worked extremely hard to
collect his ahadith. Each report in his collection was checked for compatibility
with the Qur'an, and the veracity of the chain of reporters had to be
painstakingly established. Muslim's collection is recognized by the overwhelming
majority of the Muslim world to be one of the most authentic collections of the
Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh).
Muslim (full name Abul Husain Muslim bin
al-Hajjaj al-Nisapuri) was born in 202 A.H. and died in 261 A.H. He travelled
widely to gather his collection of ahadith, including to Iraq, Saudi Arabia,
Syria, and Egypt. Out of 300,000 ahadith which he evaluated, only 4,000
approximately were extracted for inclusion into his collection based on
stringent acceptance criteria. Muslim was a student of Bukhari.
It is important to realize, however, that
Muslim's collection is not complete: there are other scholars who worked as
Muslim did and collected other authentic reports.
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