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Al-Sunan al-Sughra

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “one of the sunni six major hadith collections”. Today it says “one of the kutub al-sittah”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Shia Ibadi Jami Sahih Tartib al-Musnad - Books also revered by Ahmadiyya Related topics Ahl al-Hadith Criticism Sheikh al-Hadith Islam portal • Category”. It now reads “9th-century collection of hadith by al-Nasa'i Shia Ibadi Jami Sahih Tartib al-Musnad - Books also revered by Ahmadiyya Related topics Ahl al-Hadith Criticism Sheikh al-Hadith Islam portal • Category”.
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9th-century collection of hadith by al-Nasa'i Shia Ibadi Jami Sahih Tartib al-Musnad - Books also revered by Ahmadiyya Related topics Ahl al-Hadith Criticism Sheikh al-Hadith Islam portal • Category v t e Sunan al-Sughra ( Arabic : سنن الصغرى , romanized : Sunan al-Ṣughrā ), also known as Sunan al-Nasa'i ( Arabic : سنن النسائي , romanized : Sunan al-Nasāʾī ), is one of the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadith collections), and was collected by al-Nasa'i (214 – 303 AH; c. 829 – 915 CE). Quote: "We can discern three strata of the Sunni hadith canon. The perennial core has been the Sahihayn. Beyond these two foundational classics, some fourth/tenth-century scholars refer to a four-book selection that adds the two Sunans of Abu Dawud (d. 275/889) and al-Nasa'i (d. 303/915). The Five Book canon, which is first noted in the sixth/twelfth century, incorporates the Jami' of al-Tirmidhi (d. 279/892). Finally the Six Book canon, which hails from the same period, adds either the Sunan of Ibn Majah (d. 273/887), the Sunan of al-Daraqutni (d. 385/995) or the Muwatta' of Malik b.

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “one of the sunni six major hadith collections”. Today it says “one of the kutub al-sittah”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Shia Ibadi Jami Sahih Tartib al-Musnad - Books also revered by Ahmadiyya Related topics Ahl al-Hadith Criticism Sheikh al-Hadith Islam portal • Category”. It now reads “9th-century collection of hadith by al-Nasa'i Shia Ibadi Jami Sahih Tartib al-Musnad - Books also revered by Ahmadiyya Related topics Ahl al-Hadith Criticism Sheikh al-Hadith Islam portal • Category”. Read the current article and compare.
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one of the sunni six major hadith collections

Now

one of the kutub al-sittah

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