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Have You Completed the Sunnah?
Extremely Important
Most of the Muslims complete the Qur’ān every year at least one time in Ramadān.. (This is not enough; we ask Allāh to return us to His religion a beautiful return).
But how many Muslims have thought about completing the Prophetic Hadīth by reading it. No doubt, the spread of the Hadīth and their dispersal in many big, lengthy books makes us flinch at this idea and we think it is very difficult.
All praise is due to Allāh, one of the Scholars has undertaken a beautiful project to bring the Prophetic Sunnah close; it took him twenty years. His name is Shaykh Sālih ash-Shāmī – may Allāh reward him with good and bless his work.
He devoted himself to 14 books which are the foundations of the Prophetic Sunnah and he removed the repeated Hadīth. Scientifically, he removed the Hadith which one Sahābī narrated and they were repeated in these books.
For example, the Hadīth of ‘Umar ibn al-Khattāb رضي الله عنه, “All actions are according to their intentions.” Al-Bukhārī narrated it 7 times in various different places in his Sahīh. Al-Imām Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, at-Tirmidhī, an-Nasā’ī, Ibn Mājah, Ibn Khuzaymah and Hibbān narrated it also. So here the Hadīth would be mentioned one time from this Sahābī and the repetitions would be removed.
Like this the Hadīth of 14 books have been reduced from 114,194 Hadīth to only 28,430 Hadīth; less than a fourth of the original.
Then the author returned once again to inspect the Hadīth another time. This time to remove the repeated Hadīth for real not just scientifically. Meaning, if there comes the Hadith: “War is deception” from Abū Hurayrah and it also comes from Ibn ‘Abbās, Ka’b ibn Mālik and ‘Ā’ishah رضي الله عنهم then he sufficed with mentioning the Hadīth one time and removing the repetitions.
Likewise, the narrations that were repeated being close in meaning and content he removed those as well.
With that he reduced the number of Hadīth again, this time from 28,430 to only 3,921 Hadīth.
Imagine, most of the Sunnah is contained in less than 4,000 Hadīth.
This is a wonderful work and it encourages one to read them because it is possible to finish reading in a short time.
This abridgment which he entitled “Mu’ālim as-Sunnah an-Nabawiyyah” is in 3 volumes available online. You are able to read it with your family and come together for good and blesings by listening to 5-10 Hadīth every day for example.
This work is abridged from more than 100,000 Hadīth from 14 books. They are:
1- Muwatta al-Imām Mālik
2- Musnad al-Imām Ahmad
3- Sahīh al-Bukhārī
4- Sahīh Muslim
5- Sunan Abī Dāwūd
6- Jāmi’ at-Tirmidhī
7- Sunan an-Nasā’ī
8- Sunan Ibn Mājah
9- Sunan ad-Dārimī
10- As-Sunan al-Kubrā of al-Bayhaqī
11- Sahīh Ibn Khuzaymah
12- Sahīh Ibn Hibbān
13- Mustadrak al-Hākim
14- Al-Ahādīth al-Mukhtārah of al-Maqdisī
These books are the most important and greatest books of the Sunnah. The Scholars have placed them over other books and emphasized their status. They contain almost every authentic Hadīth and whoever read them read the generality, rather the majority of the Sunnah.
In his introduction the author mentioned his methodology of aspiring for the authentic Hadith and that which is acceptable to return to it for rulings according to the Imāms of Hadīth such as al-Albānī, al-Bayhaqī, adh-Dhahabī, Shu’ayb al-Arnā’ūt, ‘Abdul-Qādir al-Arnā’ūt, Husāin Salīm Asad, Muhammad Mustafā al-‘Adhamī and ‘Abdul-Malik ibn Duhaysh.
Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ said: “I was given the Book and what is similar to it along with it.”
Links for the book:
Volume 1:
https://d1.islamhouse.com/data/ar/ih_books/parts/ar_ma3lam_alsunnah_alnabawia/ar-01-ma3lam-alsunnah-alnabawia.pdf
Volume 2:
https://d1.islamhouse.com/data/ar/ih_books/parts/ar_ma3lam_alsunnah_alnabawia/ar-02-ma3lam-alsunnah-alnabawia.pdf
Volume 3:
https://d1.islamhouse.com/data/ar/ih_books/parts/ar_ma3lam_alsunnah_alnabawia/ar-03-ma3lam-alsunnah-alnabawia.pdf
Saheehus-Seerah 