Imam Muslim Language: ِArabic-English | Format: PDF | Volumes: 7 | Size: 57 MB
Sahih Muslim is the most authentic book
of Hadith after Sahih Al-Bukhari and contains 7,563 Ahadith. The Muslim
Scholars have agreed that all of the Ahadith in Sahih Muslim are
authentic. Thus, Darussalam realized the great benefit of publishing the
full version of Sahih Muslim in the English language in the best
presentation. Much care has been taken in rendering these Ahadith into a
clear and simple style of modern English.
This fine-quality edition of Sahih Muslim
has been verified by Dar-us-Salam Publications extensively. Its
translation has been checked several times as not only to avoid
mistranslating but also to avoid misinterpreting the ahadith as done by
many translators of the current times in order to rush the product to
market or to their lack of understanding of the Arabic language. Unlike
other publishers which leave you wondering about the meaning of the
ahadith, the unclear wording has been explained in the brackets. There
are also footnotes on bottom of some of the pages, when the term cannot
be explained in the brackets. This edition of Dar-us-Salam is nice in
that it starts off by drawing a life sketch of Imam Muslim. Then, it
goes on to the introduction of Sahih Muslim by Imam Muslim himself where
he explains the difference between different narrators and level of
trustworthiness.
This edition is also different from other
publishers in that the text is side by side with Arabic so you have
access to both English and Arabic at the same time. Furthermore, the
book regarding reporting from the trustworthy narrators have been placed
first while other books follow it. Moreover, the Arabic text contains
full chain of narrators while the English only mentions the companion.
Lastly, in keeping with the tradition of high quality printing, this
edition of Sahih Muslim by Dar-us-Salam Publications is second to none
other & made to last a long time, Insha Allah.
About Sahih Muslim:
The authentic hadith collections of
Bukhari and Muslim are excellent in respect to both chain of
transmissions and the texts as well as their general utility in that
they gave guidance in almost all walks of life. The collections won the
praise and acclaim of of Hadith scholars so much that they themselves
produced works containing the same Ahadith as found in the collection of
both Bukhari and Muslim but with their own independent chains
consisting of a lesser # of sub-narrators and called their works
Mustakhraj.
Imam Muslim is one of the foremost
preservers of ahadith of the Prophet. His book comes second only to
Sahih al Bukhari in terms of authenticity according to majority of
scholars. It is considered to be better than Sahih Bukhari in terms of
organization and repetition according to some scholars of Islam. It is
the second in the collection of 6 books called “Sihah Sittah” or “6 most
authentic books”. Imam Muslim took painstaking efforts in preserving
the words/actions/sayings & approvals of the Prophet. He has mostly
used 4-5 narrators in the chain of transmission although there are a
couple of hadith containing 3 narrators. Imam Muslim was a very good
student of Imam Bukhari and some of his Shuyukhs, although he did not
narrate from Imam Bukhari too much, thus reducing the # of narrators.
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