Sahih al-Bayhaqi

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Sahih al-Bayhaqi

A modern English cover of Sahih al-Bayhaqi
Author	Al-Bayhaqi
Original title	ٱلسُّنَن ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ لِلْبَيْهَقِيّ
Language	Arabic
Genre	Hadith collection

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The Sahih al-Bayhaqi (Arabic: صحيح الْبَيهَقِيّ), also called Sunan al-Kabir (Arabic: ٱلسُّنَن ٱلْكَبِير)^[1] is a prominent hadith collection compiled by the Persian Imam al-Bayhaqi (384 AH – 458 AH).^[2]

Imam Dhahabi ranked Sahih al-Bayhaqi as the third most authentic hadith compilation, after Sahih Muslim and Sahih al-Bukhari.^[3]

Description[]

It is the largest Sunan Book available in history of Hadith collection, containing almost twenty two thousand (22,000) Hadiths according to Maktaba Shamila.^[4] A book with similar name (Sunan al-Kubra) is also written by Imam al-Nasa'i having almost twelve thousand (12,000) hadiths.

It is one of the major hadith compilations by one of the last great hadith memorisers of the 4th century Hijri, of such importance that nothing of its like has been penned down. It is compiled in order of issue relating to fiqh. The author takes quite an effort in providing narrations in each chapter thereby giving the rulings of such transmissions and how certain scholars have understood it. He also expounds the problematic phrases and or terminologies that might cause misinterpretation as well as those that might seemingly portray contradictions. Many scholars have said that no such work has been penned down like the Sunan al-Kabir.^[5]

View of other scholars regarding the book[]

It is one of the most famous collection of Hadith as Imam Adh-Dhahabi ranks him among those 3 books that have most impressed him (with Muhalla of ibn Hazm and Tamhid of ibn Abd al-Barr).^[3]

Al-Nawawi said in al-Taqrib that one should be devoted to it, as nothing has been written like it, and al-Suyuti, commenting on this statement in Tadrib al-Rawi, agreed. Al-Sakhawi said in Fath al-Mughith that one must not limit oneself from it (by sufficing with the other sunan works of Abu Dawud, al-Nasa’i, and al-Tirmidhi) due to its comprehensiveness in most of the ahadith al-ahkam. Al-Sakhawi further added that its true rank is only after the Sahihayn of al-Bukhari and Muslim, coming before the sunan of Abu Dawud, al-Nasa'i, and al-Tirmidhi, which take precedence only by merit of being earlier and thus with shorter chains.

Al-Dhahabi said there is nothing like it and considered it to be one of the four masterpieces a scholar cannot do without, alongside al-Muhalla by Ibn Hazm, al-Mughni by Ibn Qudamah, and al-Tamhid by Ibn Abd al-Barr. Taj al-Din al-Subki said no other book had been written with such classification, arrangement, and elegance.^[6]

Commentaries[]

Among those who have written commentaries on this hadith collection are:

• Al-Sunan al-Kabir 24 VOLUMES (السنن الكبير) Commentary by Shaykh al-Turki: Published: Dar 'Aalim al-Kutub | Riyad, Sa'udi in 2013^[7]

See also[]

• List of Sunni books
• Kutub al-Sittah
• Sahih Muslim
• Jami al-Tirmidhi
• Sunan Abu Dawood
• Jami' at-Tirmidhi
• Either: Sunan ibn Majah, Muwatta Malik

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Arabic Wikisource has original text related to this article: Sunan an-Nasa'i

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