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In the past few days, footage from Hamza Yusuf in a Sufi retreat in 2016 [...]

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A common argument today that attempts to undermine the reliability of hadith is the claim [...]

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Mar
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The Question of Hadith and Politics

A concern that regularly surfaces amidst discussions on the reliability of early Islamic primary sources [...]

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Jan
The Authentic Signs of the Hour

A compilation of the authentic narrations of our Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) regarding the Islamic Eschatology [...]

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Sentiments like, “All hadith were forged to spread and promote orthodox beliefs” gain traction and [...]

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In Defense of the Hadith Method(eBook)

In this brief eBook, I attempt to summarize the fundamental principles that are maintained by scholars [...]

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List of extant primary hadith collections asides the “6 books” :

The Seerah of Ibn Ishaq (d. 151)

al-Jami’ by Ma’mar b. Rashed (d. 153)

al-Muwatta’ by Malik b. Anas (d. 179 AH)

The Juz’ of Isma’il b. Ja’far (d. 180)

al-Zuhd by ‘Abdullah b. al-Mubarak (d. 181 AH)

al-Umm by al-Shafi’i (d. 204 AH)

al-Musannaf by Abdurrazzaq (d. 211 AH)

al-Musnad by al-Humaydi (d. 219 AH)

al-Sunan by Sa’id b. Mansur (d. 227 AH)

al-Musnad by Ali b. al-Ja’d (d. 230 AH)

al-Tabaqat Al-Kubra by Ibn Sa’d (d. 230)

al-Tarikh by Yahya b. Ma’in (d. 233 AH)

al-Musannaf by Ibn Abi Shaybah (d. 235 AH)

al-Musnad by Ishaq b. Rahuyah (d. 238 AH)

al-Musnad by Ahmed b. Hanbal (d. 241 AH)

al-Musnad by al-Darimi (d. 255 AH)

al-Tarikh al-Kabir by al-Bukhari (d. 256)

Musnad al-Tayalisi by Yunus b. Habib (d. 267 AH)

Tarikh Ibn Abi Khaythamah (d. 279)

The books of Ibn Abi al-Dunya (d. 281 AH)

al-Tarikh by Abu Zur’ah al-Dimashqi (d. 281 AH)

al-Musnad by al-Bazzar (d. 286 AH)

al-Sunan al-Kubra by al-Nasa’i (303 AH)

al-Musnad by Abu Ya’la (d. 307 AH)

al-Muntaqa by Ibn Al-Jarud (d. 307)

al-Tafsir by al-Tabari (d. 310 AH)

al-Tarikh by al-Tabari

Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (d. 311 AH)

al-Mustakhraj by Abu ‘Awanah (d. 316 AH)

Sharh Mushkil al-Athaar by al-Tahawi (d. 321 AH)

al-Do’afaa al-Kabir by al-‘Uqaili (d. 322 AH)

al-Tafsir by Ibn Abi Hatem (d. 327 AH)

Sahih Ibn Hibban (d. 354 AH)

al-Mo’jam al-Kabir by al-Tabarani (d. 360)

al-Mo’jam al-Awsat by al-Tabarani

al-Mo’jam al-Saghir by al-Tabarani

Musnad al-Shamiyyeenn by al-Tabarani

al-Kamil by Ibn Adiyy (d. 365 AH)

Sunan al-Daraqutni (d. 385 AH)

al-Mustadrak by al-Hakim (d. 405 AH)

Sharh Usul al-I’tiqad by al-Lalaka’i (d. 418 AH)

Hilyat al-Awliyaa’ by Abu Nu’aim (d. 430 AH)

al-Mustakhraj by Abu Nu’aym

Dala’il al-Nubuwwah by Abu Nu’aym

al-Sunan al-Kubra by al-Bayhaqi (d. 458 AH)

al-Sunan al-Saghir by al-Bayhaqi 47. Dala’il al-Nubuwwah by al-Bayhaq

Tarikh Baghdad by Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi (d. 463)