The Six Books of Hadith

Muslim, Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, al-Nasai and Ibn Majah complete, alongside al-Bukhari, the six canonical hadith collections.

The third Islamic century became the century of hadith. Traveling between cities and teachers, these scholars sifted narrations with a science of chains and narrators unmatched in any civilization. Their six collections became the reference libraries of the Sunnah, studied from that day to this in every land where Muslims live.