HADITHS are sayings or deed's of our holy prophet(s.a.w).Hadith are regarded by traditional Islamic schools of jurisprudence as important tools for understanding theQur'an and in matters of jurisprudence. Hadith were evaluated and gathered into large collections mostly during the reign of Umar ibn AbdulAziz during the 8th and 9th centuries. These works are referred to in matters of Islamic law and history to this day. The two main denominations of Islam,Shi`ism and Sunnism, have different sets of Hadith collections.
In Arabic the word hadith means that which is new from amongst things or a piece of information conveyed either in a small quantity or large. The Arabic plural is aḥādīth. Hadith also refers to the speech of a person. As tahdith is the infinitive, or verbal noun, of the original verb form; hadith is, therefore, not the infinitive,rather it is a noun.
In Islamic terminology, the term hadith refers to reports of statements or actions of Muhammad(s.a.w), or of his tacit approval of something said or done in his presence. Classical hadith specialist Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani says that the intended meaning of hadith in religious tradition is something attributed to Muhammad(s.a.w),The word sunnah (custom) is also used in reference to a normative custom of Muhammad(s.a.w) or the early Muslim community.
HADITH QUDSI
Hadith Qudsi' (or Sacred Hadith) are a sub-category of hadith, which are sayings of Muhammad(S.A.W). Muslims regard the Hadith Qudsi as the words of God (Arabic:Allah), repeated by Muhammad(s.a.w) and recorded on the condition of an isnad. According to as-Sayyid ash-Sharif al-Jurjani, the Hadith Qudsi differ from the Qur'an in that the former were revealed in a dream or through revelation and are "expressed in Muhammad's(s.a.w) words", whereas the latter are the "direct words of God".
An example of a Hadith Qudsi is the hadith of Abu Hurairah(r.a) who said that Muhammad(s.a.w) said:
- "When God decreed the Creation He pledged Himself by writing in His book which is laid down with Him: My mercy prevails over My wrath."
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The two major aspects of a hadith are the text of the report (the matn), which contains the actual narrative, and the chain of narrators (theisnad), which documents the route by which the report has been transmitted. The sanad, literally 'support', is so named due to the reliance of the hadith specialists upon it in determining the authenticity or weakness of a hadith. The isnad consists of a chronological list of the narrators, each mentioning the one from whom they heard the hadith, until mentioning the originator of the matn along with the matn itself.The first people to hear hadith were the companions who preserved it and then conveyed it to those after them. Then the generation following them received it, thus conveying it to those after them and so on. So a companion would say, "I heard the Prophet say such and such." The Follower would then say, "I heard a companion say, 'I heard the Prophet.'" The one after him would then say, "I heard someone say, 'I heard a Companion say, 'I heard the Prophet..." and so on
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HISTORY
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Traditions of the life of Muhammad and the early history of Islam were passed down mostly orally for more than a hundred years after Muhammad's death in AD 632. Muslim historians say that Caliph Uthman ibn Affan (the thirdkhalifa (caliph) of the Rashidun Empire, or successor of Muhammad, who had formerly been Muhammad's(s.a.w) companian), was the first to urge Muslims to write the Qur'an in a fixed form, and to record the hadith.
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The Sunni canon of hadith took its final form more than 230 years after the death of Muhammad (632 AD). Later scholars may have debated the authenticity of particular hadith but the authority of the canon as a whole was not questioned. This canon, called the six major Hadith collections, includes: Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abu Dawood, Al-Sunan al-Sughra, Sunan al-Tirmidhi and Sunan ibn Majah. Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim are considered the most reliable of these collections
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In Shia hadith you will often find sermons attributed to Ali(r.a) in The Four Books or in the Nahj al-Balagha. Shi'a Muslims do not use the six major Hadith collections followed by the Sunni, instead, their primary hadith collections are written by three authors who are known as the 'Three Muhammads'They are: Kitab al-Kafi by Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni al-Razi (329 AH), Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih byMuhammad ibn Babuya and Al-Tahdhib and Al-Istibsar both by Shaykh Muhammad Tusi.
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YOU CAN READ THE HADITH BOOKS ONLINE FROM THE FOLLOWING LINK.
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YO CAN DOWNLOAD BUKHARI SHARIF FROM THE FOLLOWING LINK.
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YOU CAN READ & DOWNLOAD KITAB AL-KAFI FROM THE FOLLOWING LINK.
