Reference: Sahih Muslim 1745 c In-book reference: Book 32, Hadith 32 USC-MSA web (English) reference: Book 19, Hadith 4323. It was narrated that Ibn ‘Abbas said: “Sa’b bin Jaththamah said: ‘The Prophet (ﷺ) was asked about the polytheists who are attacked at night, and their women and children are killed.’. Translation of Sahih Muslim, Book 8: The Book of Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah) INTRODUCTION Marriage is a social institution as old as the human race itself. It may be defined as a relation between a man and a woman which is recognised by custom or law and involves certain rights and duties, both in the case of the parties entering the Union,.
The Modern Language Association (MLA) does not have a specific citation method for religious books that can be subdivided many ways, such as the 'Sahih Muslim' or the 'Talmud.' Because the 'Sahih Muslim' does have a known, individual, human author, cite it the way you would cite a book. Use your own discretion to determine which or how many subdivisions to specify in your in-text citation: you may reference the volume, chapter, book and/or number you are using.
Cite the 'Sahih Muslim' in-text first, using a parenthetical reference. Include the author's name and the page number, the chapter, or the book and number you are citing. If you use the page number, use no punctuation between the name and the number. If you identify a chapter or book and number, use a semicolon between the name and number. For example, after you refer to the text, write (ibn al-Hajjaj 63) to cite page 63; (ibn al-Hajjaj; ch. 7) to cite chapter 7; or (ibn al-Hajjaj; bk. 7 num. 3) to cite book 7, number 3.
Cite the 'Sahih Muslim' in your works-cited section at the end of your paper. As a book with one author and a translator, cite it like this: Author. Title in Italics. Trans. Name. Volume number. Location: Publisher, Year. Print. For example: ibn al-Hajjaj, Muslim. Sahih Muslim. Trans. Abd-al-Hamid Siddiqui. Vol. 4. Ontario: Kitab Bhavan, 2000. Print.
Cite the 'Sahih Muslim' like this if you are using an electronic edition of the book, omitting any information you do not have: Author. Title in italics. Trans. Name. Location of Print Publication: Print Publisher, Year. Name of Site in italics. Editor of Site. Publication date of site. Institution that Owns the Site. Date you accessed the site. For example: ibn al-Hajjaj, Muslim. Sahih Muslim. Trans. Abd-al-Hamid Siddiqui. Ontario: Kitab Bhavan, 2000. Biharanjuman.org. Bihar Anjuman. 2006. May 18, 2011.
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Author | Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (822–875) |
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Country | Nishapur |
Language | Arabic |
Series | Kutub al-Sittah |
Genre | Sunnah |
Published | 9th century |
Sahih Muslim (Arabic: صحيح مسلم , Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim; full title: Al-Musnadu Al-Sahihu bi Naklil Adli) is one of the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadith collections) in Sunni Islam.[1] It is highly acclaimed by Sunni Muslims[2] as well as Zaidi Shia Muslims.[citation needed] It is considered the second most authentic hadith collection after Sahih al-Bukhari. It was collected by Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, also known as Imam Muslim.[3] Sahih Muslim, together with Sahih al-Bukhari is termed as Sahihayn.
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The collector of the Sahih Muslim, Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, was born into a Persian family in 204 AH (817/18 CE) in Nishapur (in modern-day Iran) and died in 261 AH (874/75 CE) in the city of his birth. He traveled widely to gather his collection of ahadith (plural of hadith), including to areas now in Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula, Syria and Egypt.
Out of 300,000 hadith which he evaluated, approximately 4,000 were extracted for inclusion into his collection based on stringent acceptance criteria. Each report in his collection was checked and the veracity of the chain of reporters was painstakingly established.[citation needed] Sunni Muslims consider it the second most authentic hadith collection, after Sahih al-Bukhari. Sahih Muslim is divided into 43 books, containing a total of 9200 narrations. However, it is important to realize that Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj never claimed to collect all authentic traditions as his goal was to collect only traditions that all Muslims should agree on about accuracy.
According to Munthiri, there are a total of 2,200 hadiths (without repetition) in Sahih Muslim. According to Muhammad Amin,[4] there are 1,400 authentic hadiths that are reported in other books, mainly the six major hadith collections.
Views[edit]
Many Muslims regard this collection as the second most authentic of the six major hadith collections,[5] containing only sahih hadith, an honor it shares only with Sahih al-Bukhari, both being referred to as the Two Sahihs. Shia Muslims dismiss some of its contents as fabrications or untrustworthy due to the questionable reliability of some narrators.[citation needed]
Despite the book's high stature, and the consensus of scholars on that it is the second most valid categorized book of Hadith, after Sahih al-Bukhari, it is agreed upon that this does not mean that every element in it is true, in comparison to other Hadith books, but means that the book as a whole is valid. Such as the preference of Sahih al-Bukhari to Sahih Muslim, which does not mean that every Hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari is more valid than every Hadith in Sahih Muslim, but that the total of what is contained Sahih al-Bukhari is more valid than the total of what is contained in Sahih Muslim, and likewise, the validity of a certain Hadith form the two books of Hadith, over Hadith from other Sahih books, can not be inferred except after the correctness of that particular Hadith is shown.[6]
Distinctive features[edit]
Amin Ahsan Islahi, the noted Islamic scholar, has summarized some unique features of Sahih Muslim:[7]
- Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj recorded only such narratives as were reported by two reliable successors from two Sahabah (Companions of Muhammad) which subsequently travelled through two independent unbroken isnāds consisting of sound narrators. Muhammad al-Bukhari has not followed such a strict criterion.
- Scientific arrangement of themes and chapters. The author, for example, selects a proper place for the narrative and, next to it, puts all its versions. Muhammad al-Bukhari has not followed this method (he scatters different versions of a narrative and the related material in different chapters).
- Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj informs us whose wordings among the narrators he has used. For example, he says: haddathanā fulān wa fulān wallafz lifulān (A and B has narrated this hadīth to us and the wording used here is by A). Similarly he mentions whether, in a particular hadīth, the narrators have differed over the wordings even over a single letter of zero semantic significance. He also informs the readers if narrators have differed over a specific quality, surname, relation or any other fact about a narrator in the chain.
Commentaries and translations[edit]
- Siyanah Sahih Muslim by Ibn al-Salah, of which only the beginning segment remains
- Al Minhaj Be Sharh Sahih Muslim by Al-Nawawi.
- Fath al-Mulhim by Shabbir Ahmad Usmani.
- Takmilat Fath al-Mulhim by Muhammad Taqi Usmani.
- Summarized Sahih Muslim by Abd-al-Hamid Siddiqui. The text is used in the USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts.
- Sharh Sahih Muslim by Allama Ghulam Rasool Saeedi
- Tafsir al-gharib ma fi al-Sahihayn by Al-Humaydī
Translations of commentaries of Sahih Muslims are available in numerous languages including English, Urdu, Bangla, Tamil, and Bosnian.[8]
See also[edit]
- Kutub al-Sittah
- Either: Sunan ibn Majah, Muwatta Malik
References[edit]
- ^'Sahih Muslim (7 Vol. Set)'. 05 September 2015. Archived from the original on 1 June 2009.
- ^A.C. Brown, Jonathan (2014). Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy. Oneworld Publications. p. 257. ISBN978-1780744209.
[...] the Sahihayn, the two authentic Hadith compilations of Bukhari and Muslim bin Hajjaj that Sunni Islam has long declared the most reliable books after the Qur'an.
- ^islamic-dictionary retrieved 10:06, 26 April 2010
- ^The number of authentic hadiths (Arabic), Muhammad Amin, retrieved May 22, 2006
- ^Various Issues About Hadiths
- ^د. محمد عبد الرحمن الطوالبة. الإمام مسلم ومنهجه في صحيحه. 1. دار عمار. p. 132.
- ^Mabadi Tadabbur-i-Hadith, Amin Ahsan Islahi, 1989
- ^Australian Islamic Library
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