Masabih al-Sunnah

Template:Hadith collections Collection of hadith by the Shafi'i scholar Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud ibn Mubammad al-Farra' al-Baghawi, also known as al-Farra' from sometime before 1122 CE. An improved version of this work, Mishkat al-Masabih, has additional hadith, and was the work of Al-Tabari. The collection is divided into a number of books which are divided into chapters which are further divided into two seperate sections, one for Sahih ahadeeth as labeled by him and from the collections of Bukhari and Muslim. The second section was for hasan ahadeeth from Al-Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud and others. Al-Tabari would alter certain ahadeeth positions in his own collection.

Features of the Collection:

• Al-Baghawi omitted the isnads of these ahadeeth but kept the names of the Sahaba to whom the ahadith were traced.
• Part of his purpose, as explained in the introduction, was to enlighten Muslims about certain things of which the Quran is silent.
• Contains a grand total of 4434 ahadeeth.
• 2434 are from Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim

325 Sahih Bukhari Only

875 Sahih Muslim Only

1234 from both Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim

• Al-Baghawi tells which ahadeeth from the second section of his work are gharib and da`if
• A number of commentaries were made on this collection. Tufat Al-Abrar, Al-Maysir and the commentary by Abd al-Qadir ibn 'Abd Allah al-Suhrawardi.

References

• an Exposition by Moulana Yunus Osman
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• [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beh/islam_hadith_melv.html 1568 books obtained by Melvyl, the

on line catalog of the University of California library system.]