Written by: Rahima Akbari ('Alimah) The Author: Imām Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad The author’s name is Imām Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥanbal...

One of the earliest systematic works authored with the explicit intention of codifying the principles of ḥadīth sciences is Maʿrifat...

Among the earliest known works dedicated specifically to the discipline of ḥadīth nomenclature ( muṣṭalaḥ al-ḥadīth ) is al-Muḥaddith...

The renowned work commonly referred to as Muqaddimat Ibn aṣ-Ṣalāḥ  is formally titled Maʿrifat Anwāʾ ʿIlm al-Ḥadīth  (معرفة أنواع علم...

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī Al-Jāmi’ al-Musnad aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥ al-Mukhtaṣar min umūri Rasulillah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wa sunanihi wa ayyāmihi , the...

Al-Musnad aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥ al-Mukharraj ʿala 'ṣ-Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim is a mustakhraj work based on the Ṣaḥīḥ of Imām Muslim. A mustakhraj work is when an...

The Author: The Imām's full name is Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Khuzaymah an-Naysābūrī. He was born in the month of Ṣafar, in the year...

The Author: The author of this work is Abū Ḥātim Muḥammad ibn Ḥibbān (275-354 AH) from Khorasan, an area renowned in Islamic history for...