Author | Al-Nasa'i |
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Original title | السنن الصغرى |
Language | Arabic |
Series | Kutub al-Sittah |
Genre | Hadith collection |
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Al-Sunan al-Sughra (Arabic: السنن الصغرى, romanized: al-Sunan al-Ṣughrā), also known as Sunan al-Nasa'i (Arabic: سنن النسائي, romanized: Sunan al-Nasāʾī), is one of the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadiths), and was collected by al-Nasa'i (214 – 303 AH; c. 829 – 915 CE).[1]
Sunnis regard this collection as the third most important of their six major hadith collections.[2] Al-Mujtaba (English: the selected) has about 5,270 hadiths, including repeated narrations, which the author selected from his larger work, As-Sunan al-Kubra. Within Kutub al-Sittah, it is considered the most authentic book of hadith (narrations of Muhammad) after the Sahihayn (Sahih al-Bukhari & Sahih Muslim) by most scholars of hadith.[3]
According to al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar, the book of Sunan an-Nasa'i contains the fewest da‘eef (weak) hadiths and majrooh narrators among the six books after the Saheehain (Sahih al-Bukhari & Sahih Muslim); there is not a single mawdhoo (fabricated) hadith in it. [4]
It is claimed Sunan al-Sughra is "politically biased" towards Ali, the cousin of Muhammad.[5]
Editor, Sayyid Kasrawī Hasan's 1991, Beirut publication, in 6 volumes, provides the standard topical classification of the hadith Arabic text.[6]
The book contains 52 chapters.[7][8][9]
The book and its commentaries have been published by different publishers around the world :
Arabic commentaries & annotations
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Urdu commentaries & annotations