Masabih al-Sunnah

Masabih al-Sunnah is a collection of hadith by the Persian Shafi'i scholar Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud ibn Mubammad al-Farra' al-Baghawi, from sometime before 516 H. An improved version of this work, Mishkat al-Masabih, has additional hadith, and was the work of another Persian traditionist Al-Tabrizi d. 741H.

Description

The collection is divided into a number of books which are divided into chapters which are further divided into two separate sections, one for Sahih ahadeeth as labeled by him ( from the collections of Bukhari and Muslim), the second section was for hasan ahadeeth according to his own labelling (from Al-Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud and others). Al-Tabrizi would alter certain ahadeeth positions in his own collection.

Features of the Collection

Al-Baghawi omitted the isnads of these ahadeeth but kept the names of the Sahaba to whom the ahadith were traced.
Part of his purpose, as explained in the introduction, was to enlighten Muslims about certain things of which the Quran is silent.
Contains a grand total of 4434 ahadeeth.
2434 are from Sahih section:

325 Sahih Bukhari Only

875 Sahih Muslim Only

1234 from both Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim

Al-Baghawi tells which ahadeeth from the second section of his work are gharib and da'if
A number of commentaries were made on this collection. Tuhfat Al-Abrar, Al-Maysir and the commentary by Abd al-Qadir ibn 'Abd Allah al-Suhrawardi.

References

Sunni hadith literature

Kutub al-Sittah	Sahih al-Bukhari Sahih Muslim Sunan an-Nasa'i al-Sughra Sunan Abu Dawood Sunan al-Tirmidhi Sunan ibn Majah

Primary collections	Sahifah Hammam ibn Munabbih Musannaf ibn Jurayj Al-Muwatta The Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal Sunan al-Darimi Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah Sahih Ibn Hibbaan Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain Mawdu'at al-Kubra Tahdhib al-Athar

Secondary collections	Riyadh as-Saaliheen Masabih al-Sunnah Mishkat al-Masabih Majma al-Zawa'id Bulugh al-Maram Kanz al-Ummal

Types	Sahih Musnad Collections of fabricated hadith Musannaf Al-Zawa'id

Commentaries	Fath al-Bari (explanation of Sahih al-Bukhari)

Hadith terminology and study	Muqaddimah ibn al-Salah fi 'Ulum al-Hadith The Interpretation of Conflicting Narrations

Biographical evaluation	al-Tarikh al-Kabir Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal

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