الحديث
Hadith are the recorded words, actions and approvals of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). Together with the Quran they form the second source of Islamic guidance, and the sciences of narration were developed to preserve and verify them.
Within the first two centuries after the Prophet's death, scholars travelled across the Muslim world collecting narrations, checking each chain of transmission (isnad) and the integrity of its narrators. From this effort the great collections were compiled, arranged by subject so they could be used in law and worship.
Books are graded by the strength of their chains: the two Sahihs of al-Bukhari and Muslim hold the most rigorously authenticated narrations, while the Sunan add legal hadith with the compiler's notes on their rank. This page follows the numbering and chapters of the hadith-api dataset.
The six canonical collections, from the two Sahihs to the four Sunan. Open a book to browse its chapters.
صحيح البخاري
The most rigorously authenticated collection of hadith, arranged by subject, compiled by Imam al-Bukhari over sixteen years.
7,563 hadiths · 97 Chapters
صحيح مسلم
The second of the two Sahihs, praised for the precision of its chain criticism and its careful grouping of parallel narrations.
7,563 hadiths · 57 Chapters
سنن أبي داود
A Sunan focused on legal hadith, selected from a much larger body of narrations and gathered by topic of jurisprudence.
5,274 hadiths · 43 Chapters
جامع الترمذي
A Jami covering belief, law and manners, notable for the compiler noting the legal rank and authenticity of most narrations.
3,956 hadiths · 49 Chapters
سنن النسائي
A Sunan known for strict criteria in its narrators and for exposing weak transmissions through careful comparison.
5,758 hadiths · 51 Chapters
سنن ابن ماجه
The last of the six books, a Sunan rich in legal and ethical hadith and valued for narrations found nowhere else.
4,341 hadiths · 38 Chapters