Hadith Collection

Hadith are the recorded sayings, actions, and approvals of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, transmitted through chains of narration (isnad) and preserved as the second source of Islamic guidance after the Quran. Where the Quran establishes a ruling, hadith frequently explain how to apply it — the Quran commands prayer, for instance, but the specifics of how the Prophet ﷺ prayed come from hadith.

The six collections on this page — known collectively as the Sihah Sittah (“the Authentic Six”) — are the most widely relied-upon hadith books in Sunni scholarship: Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim (together called the Sahihayn, compiled with the strictest authentication standards and considered the two most rigorously verified collections), followed by Sunan Abu Dawud, Jami at-Tirmidhi, Sunan Ibn Majah, and Sunan an-Nasa'i.

Each hadith carries a grading — Sahih (authentic, meeting the highest chain and content standards), Hasan (good, slightly weaker chain but still accepted), or Da'if(weak, with a chain or content issue scholars have flagged) — shown next to each entry above where available. This grading matters: a hadith's authenticity isn't assumed, it's the product of centuries of chain-by-chain scholarly verification, and knowing a narration's grade is part of reading it responsibly.