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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 Jami` at-Tirmidhi ( , Jāmi` at-Tirmidhī ), popularly and mistakenly Sunan at-Tirmidhi ( , Sunan at-Tirmidhī ), is one of Kutub al-Sittah (the six major hadith collections).1It was collected by Abu `Isa Muhammad ibn `Isa at-Tirmidhi .2He began compiling it after the year 250 A.H. (A.D. 864/5) and completed it on the 10 Dhu-al-Hijjah 270 A.H.3It contains 3,956 Ahadith, and has been divided into fifty chapters. It is also classified as a Sunan, which implies that the book has been chapterised according to legal chapters, such as Purification, Prayer, Poor-due and Fasting, narrated on the authority of Islamic prophet Muhammad , while the opinions of the companions are usually not mentioned. Tirmidhi's method was that of placing the heading first, then mentioning one or two Ahadith which were related to the heading. These Ahadith are followed by his opinion as to the status of the Hadith. Subsequently, he mentions the opinions of the different jurists. He also indicates if there were other narrations transmitted by other companions on the same subject. His principal aim was to discuss the legal opinions of early jurists. Tirmidhi mostly mentioned those Ahadith which the jurists used as the basis for their legal decisions and he mentioned which school used which tradition/s. Hence this book became an important source for the different view-points of the various legal schools. The Jami' thus bears the distinction of being one of the oldest texts dealing with the difference of opinion amongst the various jurisprudential schools. Although Shafi'i (b. 150-d.204 A.H.) wrote his Kitab al-Umm before Tirmidhi's Jami', the Kitab al-Umm is less comprehensive in comparison to the Jami' of Tirmidhi.4
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Jāmi` al-Tirmidhi ( ), popularly Sunan al-Tirmidhi ( ), is one of the Sunni Six major Hadith collections . It was collected by Abu 'Eesa Muhammad ibn 'Eesa al-Tirmidhi .
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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 Jami' at-Tirmidhi ( ), also known as Sunan at-Tirmidhi , is one of " the six books " ( Kutub al-Sittah - the six major hadith collections).It was collected by Al-Tirmidhi . He began compiling it after the year 250 A.H. (A.D. 864/5) and completed it on the 10 Dhu-al-Hijjah 270 A.H. 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.Later hadith compendia often included other collections as well.' None of these books, however, has enjoyed the esteem of al-Bukhari's and Muslim's works."
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9th-century Sunni Islamic hadith collection 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 The Sahih al-Tirmidhi ( ) is a hadith book compiled by Islamic scholar al-Tirmidhi in c. 864–884 (250–270 AH).Among the Kutub al-Sittah of Sunni Islam , is ranked fifth in authenticity.
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Fourth hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam 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-Tirmidhi ( Arabic : سنن الترمذي , romanized : Sunan al-Tirmidhī ) is the fourth hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam . It was compiled by Islamic scholar al-Tirmidhi in c. 864–884 (250–270 AH).
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