Muhammad Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Hadith=== {{Main|Hadith}} [[File:PERF No. 732.jpg|thumb|left|An early manuscript of the [[Muwatta Imam Malik|''Muwatta'']] of [[Malik ibn Anas]], dated within his lifetime in {{circa|780}}]] Other important sources include the [[hadith]] collections, accounts of verbal and physical teachings and traditions attributed to Muhammad. Hadiths were compiled several generations after his death by Muslims including [[Muhammad al-Bukhari]], [[Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj]], [[Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi]], [[Al-Nasa'i|Abd ar-Rahman al-Nasai]], [[Abu Dawood]], [[Ibn Majah]], [[Malik ibn Anas]], [[al-Daraqutni]].<ref name="Lewis 1993, pp. 33–34">{{cite book |last=Lewis |first= Bernard|author-link=Bernard Lewis |date=1993 |title= [[Islam and the West]]|url= |location= |publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|pages=33–34 |isbn= 978-0195090611}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=A.C. Brown |last1=Jonathan |author-link=Jonathan A.C. Brown |date=2007 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nyMKDEAb4GsC&pg=PA9 |title=The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon |page=9 |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |isbn=978-90-04-15839-9 |quote=We can discern three strata of the Sunni ḥadīth canon. The perennial core has been the ''Ṣaḥīḥayn''. Beyond these two foundational classics, some fourth-/tenth-century scholars refer to a four-book selection that adds the two ''Sunans'' of Abū Dāwūd (d. 275/889) and al-Nāsaʾī (d. 303/915). The Five Book canon, which is first noted in the sixth/twelfth century, incorporates the ''Jāmiʿ'' of al-Tirmidhī (d. 279/892). Finally, the Six Book canon, which hails from the same period, adds either the ''Sunan'' of Ibn Mājah (d. 273/887), the ''Sunan'' of al-Dāraquṭnī (d. 385/995) or the ''Muwaṭṭaʾ'' of Mālik b. Anas (d. 179/796). Later ḥadīth compendia often included other collections as well. None of these books, however, has enjoyed the esteem of al-Bukhārīʼs and Muslimʼs works. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018150501/https://books.google.com/books?id=nyMKDEAb4GsC |archive-date=18 October 2017 }}</ref> Some Western academics cautiously view the hadith collections as accurate historical sources.<ref name="Lewis 1993, pp. 33–34" /> Scholars such as [[Wilferd Madelung]] do not reject the narrations which have been compiled in later periods, but judge them in the context of history and on the basis of their compatibility with the events and figures.{{sfn|Madelung|1997|pp=xi, 19–20}} Muslim scholars, in contrast, typically place a greater emphasis on the hadith literature instead of the biographical literature, since hadiths maintain a traditional chain of transmission ([[isnad]]); the lack of such a chain for the biographical literature makes it unverifiable in their eyes.{{sfn|Ardic|2012|p=99}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page