Compilation of the Hadiths

During the Prophet’s lifetime:

 Every Hadith was written under the supervision of the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
 No official transcripts
 Memorizing hadiths, writing hadiths, or practicing them
 The Companions always observed the Prophet, wrote his Hadiths, and
implanted his teaching into their own life.
 The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬said “Pass on knowledge from me, even if it be
only one sentence”
 Letters, discourses and statements to kings were collected
 Some recorded and recited the hadiths, but others like Abu Bakr,
Umar and Ali preserved the teachings in their actions and methods of
reasoning
 Abu Huraira narrated 5374 hadith
 Abdullah Bin Umar narrated 2630
 Anas Bin Malik narrated 2286
 Ayesha narrated 2210
 Abdullah ibn Abbas narrated 1660

Time of Sahaba and Tabieen (Companions and Successors)

 Bashir bin Nuhaik compiled Abu Huraira’s narrations
 Oban compiled Anas’s narrations
 Urwa bin Zubair and Nafey compiled Ayesha’s narrations
 Abdullah bin Umar wrote his own narrations
 Abdullah bin Abbas’s narrations were also written
 Imam Malik and Abd-Al-Razzaq compiled hadiths into chapters by
their themes, the compilation is called Al-Mutwa
 Umar bin Abdul Aziz set a committee of scholars to write hadiths
 Famous members of the committee were Imam Muhammad bin
Muslim, Imam Sh’ubi and Imam Makhool
 Kitabul Asaar by Imam Abu Hanif, Sunan e Abdul Walid and Jam-e-
Sufyan were compiled
 Compiled hadiths in journals called Suhuf
 Orally transmitted from teachers to students
  Imam Malik Bin Anas and Imam Ahmed Bin Hanibal were main
compilers

Time of Taba-i-Tabaeen (Successors of Successors)

 Golden Era of Hadith Compilation
 Rules, regulations, principles, and standards were formulated in this
era.
 Reciting and memorizing was a privilege
 Scrutiny of Hadith was done
 Only the genuine and authentic Hadith were compiled
 Imam Al-Bukhari originally came up with the idea of compilation
 Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim are known as the two absolutely
authentic.
 The “Al-Kutub-ul-Sitta” (Six Sahih) were compiled at this time:
 Sahih Bukhari from Muhammad Ibn Ismail al Bukhari
Travelled collected 600,000 hadiths
16 years of compilation
Selected 7397 hadiths as authentic
Divided them into 97 books by subject
 Sahih Muslim from Muslim ibn al Hajjaj
Student of Imam Bukhari
Divided 12000 authentic hadiths into 54 books by subjects
 Sunan of Abu Dawood
Student of Imam Hanibal
Spent 20 years collecting hadiths
Chose 4800 authentic hadiths from 500,000
 Jami al Tirmidhi from Tirmidhi
Student of Imam Bukhari
Contains 3950 hadiths
Divided by subject with critical reports
Included Hasan Hadiths
 Sunan of Nasai contains 5750 hadiths
 Sunan of ibn Majah contains 4000 hadiths
 More compilations were made by others who rearranged these the
Sahih Six