Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain

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  3. Tahdhib al-Ahkam by Shaikh Tusi
  4. al-Istibsar by Shaykh Tusi

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  • Tartib al-Musnad by al-Warijlani
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Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain or Mustadrak al-Hakim (Arabic: المستدرك على الصحيحين Al-Mustadrak 'ala al-Sahîhayn) is a five volume hadith collection written by Hakim al-Nishaburi d. 405H.

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[edit] History

He wrote it in the year 393 AH (1002-1003 CE), i.e. when he was 72 years old. It contained 9045 hadith [1]. He claimed all hadith in it were authentic according to the conditions of either Sahih Bukhari or Sahih Muslim or both [2]

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[edit] Sunni view

The statement of authenticity was not accepted by a number of prominent later Sunni scholars.

  • Al-Dhahabi, a 14th century Sunni Shafi'i Islamic scholar made an abridged version of the collection named Talkhis al-Mustadrak where he commented on its authenticity. It has become the habit of scholars today working in the field of hadîth, when compiling them and determining their authenticity, to say things like "It is authenticated by al-Hâkim and al-Dhahabî concurs". In doing so, they are referring to al-Dhahabi's Talkhîs, his abridgement of the Mustadrak that is often published along with it in its margins. [3].

Dhahabi also wrote [4]:

“ The Mustadrak contains a lot of hadîth that conform to the conditions of authenticity of both (al-Bukhârî and Muslim) as well as a number of hadîth conforming to the conditions of either one of them. Perhaps the total number of such hadîth comprises a third of the book or less. A lot of the book is hadîth that appear on the surface to be on the conditions of one or both of them, but that have hidden within them subtle but substantial defects. A portion of the book contains chains of transmission that are good and acceptable. This is about a fourth of the book. The rest of the book is rejected and extremely strange hadîth. At the same time, there are about one hundred hadîth that the heart declares to be false... ”

adh-Dhahabi lamented:

“ It would have been better if al-Hakim had never compiled it."[5] ”


[edit] Content

Among its content can be found:

[edit] See also

List of Sunni books

[edit] References

  1. ^ These figures are taken from the editorial introduction of Ibn al-Mulaqqin's Mukhtasar Istidrâk al-Dhahabî, 8-9 [1]
  2. ^ Major Collections of Hadith
  3. ^ Islamtoday.Com - Al-Hakim’s Mustadrak & al-Dhahabî’s Talkhis
  4. ^ in his biographical encyclopedia entitled Siyar A`lâm al-Nubalâ' "Biographies of Outstanding Personalities" [2]
  5. ^ Al-Hakim Al-Naysaburi
  6. ^ stated in al-Qawl al-Musaddad fil-Dhabb `an Musnad al-Imam Ahmad (published by Shaykh Ahmad Shakir in his edition of the Musnad) [3]