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Unity of all Muslims on Hadith Project
You who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in command among you. If you have a dispute about something, refer it back to Allah and the Messenger, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. That is the best thing to do and gives the best result. (Qur'an 4:59)
We only sent you* for the whole of mankind, bringing good news and giving warning. But most of mankind do not know it. (Qur'an 34:28)
*you = i.e. Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)
Whoever obeys the Messenger has obeyed Allah. If anyone turns away, we did not send you to them as their keeper. (Qur'an 4:80)
Obey Allah and His Messenger and do not quarrel among yourselves lest you lose heart and your momentum disappear. And be steadfast. Allah is with the steadfast. (Qur'an 8:46)
This faith of yours is a single faith and I am your Lord, so have taqwa of ME. (Qur'an 23:52) But they disagreed and split up, dividing into sects, each party exulting in what it had. (Qur'an 23:53) So leave them in their glut of ignorance for a while. (Qur'an 23:54)
100s of evidences available at : The Necessity of Hadith
Vision statement:
To implement the Islamic-politico-socio economic system which is the only perfect system and which is the solution to all problems humanity is facing today. Since this Islamic politico-socio-economic system is based mainly on the Qur'an and the Hadith, The Muslims must be united on the importance, scope, and range of Hadith. The vision being providing so much decisive evidence for Hadith Defense, awareness, scope, range and study material that no one can question the importance of Hadith and all can be united on a large amount of Authentic Hadith.
Mission statement:
To convince each and every Muslim to accept the authentic Hadith and to unite all Muslims on the scope, importance and range of Hadith and to provide each and every muslim easy and free access to Hadith defense, awareness, study, scope, range material in his own language and specially in Arabic and English so that there is no room for doubt and there is no room for Christian missionaries, orientalists and westernized Muslim scholars to create any kind of doubt regarding Hadith in the hearts and minds of Muslims.
The steps involved:
Note: All the steps of this process must be carried out in an honest, sincere and unbiased way. Any biased behavior may lead to loss in the Infinite life that everyone of you will face after death.
There are many Hadith defense resources not currently available for free download on internet. But it is possible to make them freely available for free download. It involves a few simple steps and all of you can participate for the noble cause of greater Hadith awareness.
1. Verification.
Are these books or which of these books are good enough to publish freely online. For this step help can be taken from reputed scholars and organizations e.g. Organizations in Saudi Arabia, IRF, Dr Zakir Naik, Dr Bilal Philips etc...
2. Permission.
Permission to publish them freely on internet for the purpose of decisive Hadith defense and removing misconceptions being created by the enemies of Islam and some scholars who are easily influenced by propaganda against Hadith. For that 1st take permission from the author and ask the author to get permission from the publishers too. If the author has died then convince the publisher to allow free publishing of the book.
(If necessary, you can even convince the publisher or author by offering him, that, in addition to allow free access and download of his books from internet, those interested in hard copies of the book can be referred to the official selling site of the author or publisher in question. This is an additional motivator to be used only if necessary. But the viewers must have free access to the books on internet.)
3. Translating from Arabic to English:
Many convincing Hadith defense books are also available in Arabic. These books have to be translated into English and then published freely online for greater Hadith defense. Regarding permission issues see the point on permission above.
4. Classical Hadith manuscripts:
Old manuscripts, pages of Hadith books, Hadith material available in museums and other classical Hadith books which help in proving early Hadith existense must be scanned and published freely online with translation into english and with evidence of presence in later popular collections of Hadith.
5. Publishing the books freely Online.
1. The high quality printed editions of all the Hadith defense books can be scanned and uploaded freely in high quality.
2. Then retyping the text but scanning the pictures can also be done in addition to step 1 to increase readability quality even further. For this professional and reputed Islamic organizations can be contacted to arrange for manpower to do this work.
6. Publishing material on Hadith scope and range:
Material proving evidence for the range and scope of Hadith must also be published freely online for free access in popular languages specially English.
7. Publishing Hadith study and awareness material:
Study material and awareness material for Hadith must be published freely online in all popular languages specially English.
8. Establishment of Hadith Complex (A full time organization for serving Hadith):
A professional and highly resourceful organization must be established to serve the Hadith i.e. an important source of Islamic law. This organization will have many responsibilities including performing all the above mentioned tasks and more, doing more and more research on Hadith and then making the results freely available to mass public by publishing all the Hadith defense, awareness, range, scope and study material freely online in all popular languages. Some of the key responsibilities of this suggested organization as I mentioned before include:
1. Authentic Hadith defense,
2. Hadith awareness,
3. Defining scope and range of Hadith,
4. Hadith study material,
5. Making all Hadith defense, awareness, scope, range and study material freely available online in all popular languages specially English and Arabic.
6. Assigning a team of higly professional Hadith missionaries who will be responsible for dealing with scholars who try to attack Hadith by providing decisive evidence for Hadith defense and removing the misconceptions that the enemies of Islam may create in the future and removing all the misconceptions that have been created about Hadith specially in the past century.
7. Attacking inauthentic Hadith with evidences. And also identifying weak Hadith.
7. And many more...The rest will Insha'ALLAH! be realized automatically once the organization has been set up.
Your responsibility:
The readers' responsibility is to convey this web page and suggestions to all powerful Islamic organizations i.e. the ones highly financed and resourceful e.g. the ones in Saudi Arabia, to reputed and popular organizations like IRF of Dr Zakir Naik and also to popular and reputed scholars worldwide. Also ask as many people as possible to convey these suggestions so that we can also create public demand pressure.
(Sometimes isolated emails are very conveniently thrown away like trash by some people, but after thinking over it I have decided to avoid emailing directly and start creating public demand pressure
. After all, if you work hard to put up such a solution, why would you allow some one to reject the idea without the mass population of Muslims never even knowing the idea.)
More Comments
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Islam is the only solution which gives a complete politico-socio-economic system of life but without sufficient defense, awareness, propagation of Hadith; without free, easy and mass availability of Hadith defense, study and awareness material in popular languages specially English; without decisive and exhaustive research on all important Hadith issues and then freely sharing that research in popular languages specially English; without free publishing online of all important Hadith issues like study material, defense material, awareness material, decisive evidence material etc...in all popular languages specially English and with Missionaries, orientalists, and some befooled Muslim scholars bombarding Muslims with material attacking Hadith, how can you expect the Muslim Ummah to be united when the Islamic system is based on the Qur'an and The Hadith. When you don't upload free material on Hadith awareness, defense, study etc... in popular languages including English, how do you think you (i.e Islamic organizations) are not responsible for those Muslims that are misguided by heretic cults. Missionaries and orientalists are trying to divide Muslims by exploiting the general ignorance of powerful Islamic organizations regarding Hadith. Hadith being a complex subject demanded investment of huge resources into proper defense, awareness and propagation of Hadith in popular languages, but these organizations haven't done enough till now. And I hope after reading this, some one will atleast take notice of this situation and wake up the resourceful and/or popular Muslim scholars.
But authenticity is important and a trusted/reputed/experienced Islamic scholar must lead this research. Research by unknown, unrecognized scholars is useless.
As you all know, Insha'ALLAH soon time for establishing a true Islamic-politico-socio-economic system will come and when that comes remember the Ayaat given in my article : Hadith . Out of dozens of Ayaat I am only quoting translation of 2 here.
Whoever obeys the Messenger has obeyed Allah. If anyone turns away, we did not send you to them as their keeper. (4:80)
You who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in command among you. If you have a dispute about something, refer it back to Allah and the Messenger, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. That is the best thing to do and gives the best result. (4:59)
To convince each and every Muslim to follow authentic Hadith and to unite all Muslims on the scope, importance and range of Hadith, this project must to be implemented as soon as possible.
You can also suggest me to make this project plan even more efficient and effective by giving suggestions and more ideas.
"Dear Muslim organizations: Don't ignore this plan. I have conveyed the plan. If you close your eyes, we will see the consequences of your decision for you and me on the Day of Judgement Insha'ALLAH!"
Current situation:
Highly financed and resourceful organizations in Saudi Arabia
While highly resourceful and highly invested organizations in Saudi Arabia are spending huge amounts of investment on the Qur'an, its translation and distribution, I won't be wrong if I say they have in a way not given the due importance and resources to Hadith Defense, awareness, translations and spread etc... In other words , they have in an indirect way neglected the Hadiths' due importance and if heretic Hadith rejectors or Sunnah deviators are arising, these organizations are also responsible for ignoring Hadiths' due importance thus allowing immature people to indulge into Hadith and who misguide themselves and then misguide others. Unbalanced behaviour on the Qur'an and Hadith by these organizations shouldn't continue and its high time they allocate at least as much resources as they have allocated to the Qur'an.
These organizations have enough resources:
1. To scan and publish old historical manuscripts and books of Hadith online with translation into English and evidence of presence in later popular collections of Hadith.
2. These have enough resources to translate from Arabic to English the highly convincing Hadith defense books, both classical and relatively new ones and then publish them freely online both in Arabic and English.
3. These have enough resources to publish currently available Hadith defense books in English by M. M. Azmi and Hamidullah etc... freely online.
4. These have enough resources to take all available collections of Hadith , grade them all using the science of Hadith, translate them (specially in English) and then publish them freely online with the full chain of narrators, the Classical Hadith books, volume numbers and hadith numbers where the Hadith is listed, reputation of narrators etc...i.e. Chain of narrators , text of Hadith, Hadith number, volume number,book number, Classical hadith book name e.g. bukhari etc...
then reputation of each narrator in chain. Comments on strength of Hadith etc...
And then publish these in popular languages of the world specially English. All these books must be translated into English atleast.
5. Hadith Complex must be established just as Qur'an Complex has been established,...to serve Hadith and remove misconceptions about Hadith and refute the misguidance being spread by immature people, the main reason of their misguidance may be lack of sufficient resources, but in Saudi Arabia, specially the Complex team has no shortage of resources. They can easily implement these ideas, if they have enough motivation to serve the Hadith as they are trying to serve the Qur'an.
An empty mind is a devil's workshop and lack of proper and professional Hadith research, defense and propagation by reputed Islamic organizations is heretic cults' and scholars workshop.
So convincing these organizations to start taking Hadith defense, awareness and propagation seriously is also a key part of this project so that they take up this project.
Appendix 1:
I mentioned uniting each and every Muslim in my mission statement and I being a man who takes practical necessities into account when making such big statements, here is the necessary key to uniting all Muslims.
Uniting all Muslims on the scope, importance, number and range of Authentic Hadith
Each and every Muslim can not be united unless each and every Hadith belonging to each and every sect or group is not graded and unless it is convincingly proved why this particular Hadith is authentic and why that particular Hadith in inauthentic, or weak. The sects wrongly formed among Muslims cannot be removed and Muslims can't be united without performing this thorough research and sharing this research with all Muslims.
These convincing proofs of grading and research for every single Hadith need to be shared freely in English, Arabic and other popular languages and also freely online on the internet, with clear labels for each Hadith as Authentic, Inauthentic etc... The chain of narrators along with their strengths, reputation etc... must also accompany every graded Hadith and any related authentic Hadith must also be referred to.
Comprehensive and thorough analysis and grading of every single Hadith must be done, no matter which sect believes in it, all available Hadith must be graded and all the results of research on every single Hadith must be shared freely on internet.
You can't expect every Muslim to follow a particular sect's accepted range of Hadith, without even bothering to share a comprehensive research on all available Hadith with all Muslims, proving why the set of hadith you believe as authentic are really authentic and why the set of hadith you believe as inauthentic are really inauthentic. All Muslims will be united Insha'ALLAH, if the Authentic Hadith collection is 1 after a thorough research.
You claim to love the Prophet (peace be upon him) and yet I see many strong muslim organizations completely ignoring the due importance of a comprehensive, exhaustive, and all-encompassing research on Hadith and then sharing that research with all Muslims to unite all Muslims on the range of Authentic Sunnah and Hadith.
Its time to set up a full time unbiased Hadith organization, doing core Hadith research and sharing the results of that research with all Muslims in Arabic, English and other popular languages. Arabic and English are absolutely a must regarding all the end products of the research that are to be shared on internet and other resources for all Muslims to see, and then actually and practically unite all Muslims on a fixed rage, scope and number of Authentic Hadith, so that Muslims are completely united on the range and number of authentic hadith as they are completely united on the Ayaat and Suraahs of the Qur'an.
Then a single big compilation of Hadith must be prepared containing all authentic Hadith with complete justification of authenticity of each Hadith and a smaller version of this compilation can also be created later containing only the authentic Hadith for users to easily read and follow. Also, a single big compilation of Hadith must be prepared containing all inauthentic Hadith with complete justification of inauthenticity, weakness and errors in each inauthentic Hadith.
So the above exercise must be carried out as soon as possible. All the necessary plan of action is obvious. Pressurize reputed and strong Islamic organizations to immediately start this thorough, exhaustive and all-encompassing research on Hadith and then share all the results of this research with all Muslims in Arabic, English and other popular languages and in an unbiased and organized manner. Those organizations claiming to be research organizations are wrong in their claim unless they are performing this research on all Hadith.
Of course you don't want people to ignore authentic Hadith and you don't want people to follow inauthentic Hadith, then you must carry out this comprehensive research and open grading with justifications for each and every Hadith and publish the results freely online in all popular languages specially Arabic and English.
What are you waiting for? Immediately pressurize reputed Islamic organizations to take up this research!
Appendix 2:
Unbiased Research Tools Needed Urgently:
The end of Dogmatic Approach:
Those scholars who expect masses to follow them without countering arguments and research projects being put forwarded by perverted organizations will not work. Saying he is a deviant scholar, saying he is misguided alone will not work. Why is he misguided and you guided, when he is ready to present detailed research and you are not prepared to present detailed research and you merely expect masses to follow your views is a question that may arise in the minds of normal public...Why?
So its time to prepare for unbiased intrafaith discussions with comprehensive research tools like the ones I propose below.
1. Online Open and Free Hadith Research Tool Needed Urgently.
Ahaadith (plural of Hadith)
This free research tool should contain all Ahaadith from all Hadith books available and should have detailed reports for each and every narrator from all the available Rijaal books available. In other words:
1. Isnad Analysis:
All Ahaadith (plural of Hadith) with full chain of narrators including the book in which it appears as a supplement to the isnad. And with all the names in the isnad clickable and when any name is clicked it should take to the same person referred to by that name i.e. some people have been referred to by different names and by using Rijaal books, it can be easily analysed which names refer to the same person, so all the different names when clicked from the isnad of any Hadith must take the person to the detailed reports about that same person from all the Rijaal books. Then analysing the relationships between various narrators is also very important, i.e. A --> B --C --> and so on. Analysing whether A and B met each other, analysing whether A and B lived in the same area at the same time, analysing whether C and B met each other, analysing whether C and B lived in the same area at the same time, etc... are some more details which Hadith scholars know and can fully utilize if such tool is made available. So in this way researchers can not only analyze and verify themselves all the comments made about each person in a chain of Hadith, they can see how many Rijaal books grade that person as trustable and which of the Rijaal books grade him as un-trustable and the detailed comments put forward by them regarding each and every narrator in the chain of each and every Hadith.
2. Matn Analysis:
For accurate Matn analysis all the similar or related Ahaadith from all the available Hadith collections must be brought together under the same category for related topics and sub category for Ahaadith dealing with the same issue with full chain of narrators. It is very important to gather together all the texts of similar Hadith together to analyse the variations if any among the similar Hadith quoted via various chains. e.g. sometimes some narrators only narrate a part of a Hadith while others narrate the full Hadith, so to understand the context and real message of Hadith all similar Ahaadith must be analysed and Ahaadith on related topics should also be analysed. Small variations in wordings do exist in Ahaadith and this is made clear by gathering them all together. Closing eyes is not the solution, you will have to analyse the variations. If some scholar says Sahih Bukhari is 100% authentic that doesn't mean each and every word in Sahih Bukhari attributed to prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) is word by word stated by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) . In fact even Mutawaatir Ahaadith which have been narrated by a large number of people at each stage, are basically of 2 kinds, 1 of which is mutawaatir in word and other mutawaatir in meaning (accepting the fact that the wording is not word by word).
One more thing, basing judgements on isolated Ahaadith is not correct and the claim of some sects to go back to the Qur'an and the Authentic Hadith is good, but that doesn't mean they start giving fatwas on individual Ahaadith (without gathering together the other AUthentic Ahaadith which discuss the same event and without gathering together and analysing other authentic Ahaadith related in any direct or indirect way to the issue). In fact they should analyse the Qur'an and other related Authentic Ahaadith to come to a better conclusion instead of picking isolated Ahaadith for their fatwas.
2. Online Open and Free Qur'an Research tool also needed urgently
Using the Qur'an to explain the Qur'an itself is the highest form of tafsir followed by using Authentic hadith to explain the Qur'an. To effectively use this, know that most of the Arabic letters are based on 3 letter roots each of which has many derivatives. So a software is to be developed allowing a person to click any word in the Qur'an and by doing so , the software must display:
1. The root and its meanings.
2. All the derived forms of the root that have appeared in the Qur'an and their full grammatical analysis and their meanings for each derived form and verb form.
3. The software/website should automatically display all the Ayaat containing that root with the words based on that root highlighted in a different color for easy identification. i.e. when any word in the Qur'an is clicked, the software should display all the Ayaat containing that root with all the words derived from that root highlighted in a different colour. And on the left side should be a list giving full details and stats of each root and derived form i.e. while the main section of the page lists all the Ayaat containing derivations of that root with the actual words containing that root highlighted in a different colour, the small section on the left must display the root and its meanings and stats i.e. how many times has that root appeared in the Qur'an in various derived forms and then this should be followed by each of its derived form along with meaning and number of times that derived form has appeared in the Qur'an. Now clicking a derived form alone should be able to display all the Ayaat containing that derived form only. So on style lists all the Ayaat containing that exact derived form and the other comprehensive style lists all the Ayaat containing that root.
4. Example tools: I am afraid the only example tools I could find is by Hadith rejecters and deviant cults, so just look at them for ideas, but don't use them.
5. A thing missing from these so far is the complete grammatical analysis of each derived word for each root used in the Qur'an and that effort is being made by another Hadith rejecter and deviant site.
www.studyquran.co.uk/PRLonline.htm
I would have never even mentioned such deviant sites, but it is a shame that such deviant cults with severely limited manpower and resources are coming up with such genuine efforts and many authentic organizations are simply ignoring such ideas.
Appendix 3:
100s of books are available and it is the responsibility of reputed Islamic organizations to find out all available books on Hadith and consider them appropriately and accordingly for translation into English and uploading freely on internet.
Below are book reviews for a few of these books. This doesn't mean you will only have to work on these books, you have to work on not only these books but also work on 100s of other books not mentioned by me.
Some Books to be Considered by the Reputed Islamic Organizations who plan to take up this very important and urgently needed project.
Category 1
Translations of important Hadith books in English to be uploaded online for free access with full chain and all repetitions of a Hadith via different chains.
1. Sahih Bukhari
The full and approved English translation of Sahih Bukhari to be uploaded freely online with full chain of narrators for each Hadith and all repetitions of a Hadith via different chains. (Don't remove any Hadith as this project requires uploading each and every Hadith with full chain of narrators and its authenticity status.)
2. Sahih Muslim
The full and approved English translation of Sahih Muslim to be uploaded freely online with full chain of narrators for each Hadith and all repetitions of a Hadith via different chains. (Don't remove any Hadith as this project requires uploading each and every Hadith with full chain of narrators and its authenticity status)
3. Sunan Abu Dawood
The full and approved English translation of Sunan Abu Dawood to be uploaded freely online with full chain of narrators for each Hadith and all repetitions of a Hadith via different chains. (Don't remove any Hadith as this project requires uploading each and every Hadith with full chain of narrators and its authenticity status, i.e. the authenticity of each and every Hadith and the grading given by different approved Hadith checking scholars to each Hadith along with arguments used by these Hadith checking scholars to grade each Hadith and their final conclusion for each and every Hadith.)
4. Sunan An Nasaee
The full and approved English translation of Sunan An Nasaee to be uploaded freely online with full chain of narrators for each Hadith and all repetitions of a Hadith via different chains. (Don't remove any Hadith as this project requires uploading each and every Hadith with full chain of narrators and its authenticity status, i.e. the authenticity of each and every Hadith and the grading given by different approved Hadith checking scholars to each Hadith along with arguments used by these Hadith checking scholars to grade each Hadith and their final conclusion for each and every Hadith.)
5. Sunan At Tirmidhee
The full and approved English translation of Sunan At Tirmidhee to be uploaded freely online with full chain of narrators for each Hadith and all repetitions of a Hadith via different chains. (Don't remove any Hadith as this project requires uploading each and every Hadith with full chain of narrators and its authenticity status, i.e. the authenticity of each and every Hadith and the grading given by different approved Hadith checking scholars to each Hadith along with arguments used by these Hadith checking scholars to grade each Hadith and their final conclusion for each and every Hadith.)
6. Sunan Ibn Maajah
The full and approved English translation of Sunan Ibn Maajah to be uploaded freely online with full chain of narrators for each Hadith and all repetitions of a Hadith via different chains. (Don't remove any Hadith as this project requires uploading each and every Hadith with full chain of narrators and its authenticity status, i.e. the authenticity of each and every Hadith and the grading given by different approved Hadith checking scholars to each Hadith along with arguments used by these Hadith checking scholars to grade each Hadith and their final conclusion for each and every Hadith.)
7. Malik's Muwatta
The full and approved English translation of Malik's Muwatta to be uploaded freely online with full chain of narrators for each Hadith and all repetitions of a Hadith via different chains. (Don't remove any Hadith as this project requires uploading each and every Hadith with full chain of narrators and its authenticity status, i.e. the authenticity of each and every Hadith and the grading given by different approved Hadith checking scholars to each Hadith along with arguments used by these Hadith checking scholars to grade each Hadith and their final conclusion for each and every Hadith.)
8. Musnad Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal
9. Sunan Ad-Darimee
10. Sahih Ibn Khuzaima
11. Sahih Ibn Habban
The full and approved English translation of Musnad Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, Sunan Ad-Darimee, Sahih Ibn Khuzaima, Sahih Ibn Habban to be uploaded freely online with full chain of narrators for each Hadith and all repetitions of a Hadith via different chains. (Don't remove any Hadith as this project requires uploading each and every Hadith with full chain of narrators and its authenticity status, i.e. the authenticity of each and every Hadith and the grading given by different approved Hadith checking scholars to each Hadith along with arguments used by these Hadith checking scholars to grade each Hadith and their final conclusion for each and every Hadith.)
12, 13, 14 , 15 and so on...Many other Hadith works on which necessary translation, authenticity gradation and arguments to support the gradation, and then freely publishing online in Arabic and English needs to be done.
The names and brief reviews of many other Hadith works can be found from:
1. Studies in Hadith literature and methodology by M. M. Azami 2. Studies in Early Hadith literature by M.M. Azami
3. Hadith literature: its origins, development and special features by Muhammad Zubayr Siddiqi
The ones participating in this project must go through the books above to extract more Hadith works to work on.
www.hadeeth.webs.com 's response to my query on Hadith Books in addition to the 7 well known books. Wa `Alaikum-us-Salaam wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuh. ... The authentic references of the Sunnah which in which the ahaadeeth and aathaar are collected in are simply too many to mention. They are so many that a lot of them are still in manuscript form and are yet to be published! I will try to list some of the famous or large collections that are printed and available, even if partly, in chronological order. (1) Al-Musnad of Ash-Shaafi`ee (2) Al-Musnad of At-Tayaalisee (3) Al-Musnad of Al-Humaydee (4) Al-Musannaf of `Abd-ur-Razzaaq (5) As-Sunan of Sa`eed ibn Mansoor (6) Al-Musannaf of Ibn Abee Shaybah (7) As-Sunan of Ad-Daarimee (also known as Al-Musnad, or Al-Musnad-ul-Jaami`) (8) Al-Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal (the largest original book of hadeeth available to us) (9) Al-Bahr-uz-Zakhkhaar of Al-Bazzaar (commonly known as Musnad-ul-Bazzaar) (10) As-Sunan-ul-Kubraa of An-Nasaa’ee (this is not counted among the 6 books) (11) Al-Musnad of Aboo Ya`laa (the shorter narration) (12) Al-Muntaqaa of Ibn-ul-Jaarood (13) Jaami`-ul-Bayaan `an Ta’weel Aayil-Qur’aan of Ibn Jareer At-Tabaree (commonly known as Tafseer-ut-Tabaree) (14) Tahdheeb-ul-Aathaar of At-Tabaree (15) As-Saheeh of Ibn Khuzaimah (its actual name is Mukhtasar-ul-Mukhtasar minal-Musnad-is-Saheeh) (16) Sharh Ma`aaneey-il-Aathaar of At-Tahaawee (17) Sharh Mushkil-il-Aathaar of At-Tahaawee (18) Tafseer-ul-Qur’aan-il-Azeem of Ibn Abee Haatim (commonly known as Tafseer Ibn Abee Haatim) (19) Al-Mu`jam-ul-Kabeer of At-Tabaraanee, (20) Al-Mu`jam-ul-Awsat (21) Al-Mu`jam-us-Sagheer (22) Musnad-ush-Shaamiyyeen of At-Tabaraanee (23) As-Sunan of Ad-Daaraqutnee (24) As-Saheeh Ibn Hibbaan (its actual name is At-Taqaaseem wal-Anwaa`) (25) Al-Mustadrak `alas-Saheehayn of Al-Haakim (26) Hilyat-ul-Awliyaa’ of Aboo Nu`aim (27) As-Sunan-ul-Kubraa of Al-Baihaqee (28) Ma`rifat-us-Sunan wal-Aathaar of Al-Baihaqee (29) Al-Jaami` li-Shu`ab-il-Eemaan of Al-Baihaqee (30) Taareekh Madeenat-is-Salaam of Al-Khateeb-ul-Baghdaadee (commonly known as Taareekh Baghdaad) (31) Musnad-ul-Firdaws of Aboo Mansoor Ad-Daylamee (32) Sharh-us-Sunnah of Al-Baghawee (33) Taareekh Dimashq of Ibn `Asaakir