Kutub al-Sittah

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Islamic religious text collection canonical Sunni hadith collection

Kutub al-Sittah is the canonical collection of six major Sunni hadith books regarded as the most authoritative sources of the Prophet Muhammad’s sayings and traditions after the Qur’an.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Kutub al-Sittah canonical	9
Kutub al-hadith	1
al-Kutub al-Sittah	1
al-Sunan al-Sughra	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Islamic religious text collection ⓘ canonical Sunni hadith collection ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Six Books ⓘ Kutub al-Sittah ⓘ surface form: al-Kutub al-Sittah
authorityFor	Sunni legal schools (madhhabs) ⓘ
compiledBy	multiple Sunni hadith scholars ⓘ
consideredLevelOfAuthenticity	high ⓘ
coreDoctrinalRole	primary hadith reference for Sunni Muslims ⓘ
evaluatedBy	hadith critics (muhaddithun) ⓘ
excludes	Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal ⓘ Muwatta Malik ⓘ
focusesOn	beliefs and creed ⓘ biographical reports of Prophet Muhammad ⓘ ethics and manners ⓘ legal rulings ⓘ ritual worship ⓘ
follows	Sunni hadith methodology ⓘ
geographicalContext	Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ
hasCanonicalNumber	6 ⓘ
hasClassification	major hadith collections ⓘ
hasImpactOn	Sunni devotional practice ⓘ
hasPart	Jami al-Tirmidhi ⓘ Sahih Muslim ⓘ Sahih al-Bukhari ⓘ Sunan Abu Dawud ⓘ surface form: Sunan Abi Dawud Sunan Ibn Majah ⓘ Sunan al-Nasa’i ⓘ
includesGenre	sahih hadith ⓘ sunans ⓘ
influenced	Islamic scholarship curriculum ⓘ Sunni creed ⓘ Sunni jurisprudence ⓘ
language	Arabic ⓘ
preservationMethod	manuscript tradition ⓘ oral transmission ⓘ
rankedAfter	Quran ⓘ surface form: Qur’an
regardedAs	most authoritative hadith books after the Qur’an in Sunni Islam ⓘ
religiousStatus	canonical in Sunni hadith tradition ⓘ
religiousTradition	Sunni Islam ⓘ
studiedIn	Islamic universities ⓘ traditional Sunni madrasas ⓘ
subject	Sunnah ⓘ surface form: Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad hadith ⓘ
timePeriodDocumented	3rd century AH ⓘ 9th century CE ⓘ
transmittedThrough	isnad chains ⓘ
usedFor	deriving Sunni Islamic law (fiqh) ⓘ deriving Sunni Islamic theology (aqidah) ⓘ preserving sayings and actions of Prophet Muhammad ⓘ

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sahih al-Bukhari → partOf → Kutub al-Sittah ⓘ

Sahih Muslim → partOf → Kutub al-Sittah ⓘ

Sunan Abu Dawud → partOf → Kutub al-Sittah ⓘ

Jami al-Tirmidhi → partOf → Kutub al-Sittah ⓘ

Sunan al-Nasa’i → partOf → Kutub al-Sittah ⓘ

Sunan al-Nasa’i → alsoKnownAs → Kutub al-Sittah ⓘ

this entity surface form: al-Sunan al-Sughra

Sunan Ibn Majah → partOf → Kutub al-Sittah ⓘ

Kutub al-Sittah → alsoKnownAs → Kutub al-Sittah ⓘ

this entity surface form: al-Kutub al-Sittah

Abu Dawud Sulayman ibn al-Ashʿath al-Sijistani → workIncludedIn → Kutub al-Sittah ⓘ

Abu Dawud al-Sijistani → contributedTo → Kutub al-Sittah ⓘ

Sunan collections → componentOf → Kutub al-Sittah ⓘ

Sunan collections → categoryWithin → Kutub al-Sittah ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kutub al-hadith