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Hadith
A A report of what the Prophet Muhammad said, did, or approved, passed down by named narrators. is a report of what the Prophet Muhammad said or did. Start with forty short ones every beginner is given, then the two “Sound” or “authentic”: the strongest grade for a reliably passed-down hadith. collections scholars rely on most. English first, one at a time.
- Start hereForty Hadith of Nawawi42 short cards. English, what each one means, and the Arabic.الأربعون النووية
- 97 booksSahih al-BukhariThe collection most Muslims treat as the most reliable. One chapter at a time.صحيح البخاري
- 56 booksSahih MuslimThe other sahih collection. Read it the same way, one hadith at a time.صحيح مسلم
Each page leads with English. The classical Arabic is one tap below it. The English follows the open hadith datasets, Muhsin Khan for Bukhari. A mosque class is still the place to learn how a hadith is used.
Words you will meet13
- Hadithحديث
- A report of what the Prophet Muhammad said, did, or approved, passed down by named narrators.
- Narrator
- The person who passed a report on. Scholars trace the chain of narrators to judge how reliable it is.
- ﷺsallallahu 'alayhi wa sallamصلى الله عليه وسلم
- A blessing written after the Prophet's name: “may God bless him and grant him peace.” It is a sign of respect.
- Apostle
- Older English for messenger. In these translations, “Allah's Apostle” means the Prophet Muhammad.
- (ra)radiyallahu 'anhuرضي الله عنه
- “May God be pleased with him.” Said after the name of one of the Prophet's companions.
- Companionsahabiصحابي
- Someone who met the Prophet as a believer.
- Grade
- Scholars' judgment of how reliably a hadith was passed down.
- Sahihصحيح
- “Sound” or “authentic”: the strongest grade for a reliably passed-down hadith.
- Hasanحسن
- “Good”: a reliable grade, one step below sahih.
- Sunnahسنة
- The Prophet's way: what he said, did, and approved.
- The Forty of al-Nawawiالأربعون النووية
- Short, foundational hadith gathered by Imam al-Nawawi, a scholar of Damascus in the 1200s.
- Sahih al-Bukhariصحيح البخاري
- A hadith collection gathered by Imam al-Bukhari. With Sahih Muslim, one of the two collections Sunni scholars rely on most.
- Sahih Muslimصحيح مسلم
- A hadith collection gathered by Imam Muslim. With Sahih al-Bukhari, one of the two collections Sunni scholars rely on most.
Source and notes
Bukhari and Muslim are fetched on demand from AhmedBaset/hadith-json, pinned to commit 70b83d6d21995bb32f8d7271cd75501be5a922a7. That dataset credits https://sunnah.com/ as its origin.
Rights: unverified. No license text is recorded for this dataset version. Its package metadata says ISC; that is not verified permission for the text.
Scholarly review: open, not yet reviewed. The question still open is: Which grading statements and source references must be shown for each narration?