The Four Books

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Hadith collections

Sunni six major collections
(Al-Sihah al-Sittah):

1. Sahih al-Bukhari
   
2. Sahih Muslim
   
3. al-Sunan al-Sughra
   
4. Sunan Abi Dawood
   
5. Sunan al-Tirmidhi
   
6. Sunan Ibn Maja/Al-Muwatta

Shi'a Twelver collections:

• Nahj al-Balagha
• "The Four Books" (Al-Kutub Al-Arb'ah)

1. Kitab al-Kafi of Kulainy
   
2. Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq
   
3. Tahdhib al-Ahkam by Shaikh Tusi
   
4. al-Istibsar by Shaykh Tusi
   

Ibadi collections:

• al-Jami' as-Sahih by al-Rabi' ibn Habib
• Tartib al-Musnad by al-Warijlani

• Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal — 780-855
  
• Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah — 923
• Sahih Ibn Hibbaan — 965
• Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain — 1014
  
• Mawdu'at al-Kubra— 1128-1217
  
• Riyadh as-Saaliheen — 1233 - 1278
  
• Mishkat al-Masabih - 1340
• Talkhis al-Mustadrak — 1274-1348
  
• Majma al-Zawa'id — 1335-1405
  
• Bulugh al-Maram — 1372-1449
  
• Kanz al-Ummal — 1500th
  
• Zujajat al-Masabih — 1960
• Minhaj us Sawi — 2003

• The book of Sulaym ibn Qays — 600th
  
• Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya — 678-713
  
• Wasael ush-Shia — 1600s
  
• Bihar al-Anwar — 1600s
  
• Haqq al-Yaqeen — 1600s
  
• Ain Al-Hayat — 1600s
  
• Sharh Usul al-Kafi — ?-1081
  

• Nahj with comments — ?-1258