Sahih MUSLIM


Introduction to Translation of Sahih Muslim
In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most
Merciful 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
(including multiple hadith in a single one i. e. multiple
quotations) 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.
The translation of Sahih Muslim found here is complete!
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