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Sunan al-Tirmidhi

Sunan al-Tirmidhi (Arabic: سنن الترمذي, romanizedSunan al-Tirmidhī) is the fourth hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. It was compiled by Islamic scholar al-Tirmidhi in c. 864–884 (250–270 AH).

Author

Arabic

Hadith collection

9th century

Title[edit]

The full title of the compilation is al-jāmiʿ al-mukhtaṣar min as-sunan ʿan Rasūl Allāh ﷺ wa maʿrifat al-saḥīḥ wal-maʿlūl wa mā ʿalayhil al-ʿamal (Arabic: الجامع المختصر من السنن عن رسول الله ﷺ ومعرفة الصحيح والمعلول وما عليه العمل).[1][2] It is shortened to al-jāmiʿ al-saḥīḥ, al-jāmiʿ al-sunan, al-jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī, al-sunan al-Tirmidhī or Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tirmidhī.


The term Jami within the title indicates a complete collection covering all eight Risalah (Allah's message) subjects. The term Sunan within the title refers to the collection's focus and chapter arrangement based on the particular Risalah subject, ahkam (general law).[3] Al-Kattani said: "The Jamiʿ of at-Tirmidhi is also named The Sunan, contrary to those thinking them to be two separate books, and [it is also named] Al-Jamiʿ al-Kabir.[4]


Since the book is considered by most Sunnis to be the most authentic after Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, this was dubbed by later scholars as Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tirmidhī.[5]

Compilation and description[edit]

He began compiling it after the year 864/5 AD (250 AH) and completed it on the 9 June 884 AD (10 Dhu al-Hijjah 270 AH).


It contains about 4330 ahadith[6] (now roughly 4400), and has been divided into fifty chapters—disputed as 46 books.[7]

Reception[edit]

Ibn al-Athir said: "(It) is the best of books, having the most benefit, the best organization, with the least repetition. It contains what others do not; like mention of the different views, angles of argument, and clarifying the circumstances of the hadith as being sahih, da'if, or gharib, as well as disparaging and endorsing remarks (regarding narrators)."

Contents[edit]

Editor, Ahmad Muhammad Shakir's 1937–65, Cairo publication, in 5 volumes, provides the standard topical classification of the hadith Arabic text.[16] The book is divided into 49 chapters.[17][18]

Aridhat al-Ahwathi bi Sharh Sunan al-Tirmidhi written d. 543H (1148–49 CE)

Ibn al-Arabi

Sharh Jaami' al-Tirmidhi of which only the last portion of remains – Sharh 'Ilal at-Tirmidhi – by

Ibn Rajab

by Rashid Ahmad Gangohi

Al-Kawakib al-Durri sharh Jami al-Tirmidhi

Commentary on al-Tirmidhi's Hadith Collection by

al-Zayn al-Iraqi

Footnotes, including explanation and verification, of approximately the first third of the Sunan by

Ahmad Muhammad Shakir

by Anwar Shah Kashmiri

Al-Arf al-Shadhi sharh Sunan al-Tirmidhi

by Yusuf Banuri

Maarif al-Sunan sharh Sunan al-Tirmidhi

Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhi Bi Sharh Jamiʿ Al-Tirmidhi by 'Abd al-Rahman al-Mubarkafuri, ed. 'Abd al-Rahman Muhammad 'Uthman, 10 vols., Beirut

Fuyoodh Un Nabi, Sharh Jami Al Tirmidhi (in Urdu Language) by , Taleem wo Tarbiyat Publisher, Lahore, Pakistan[19]

Allama Mufti Muhammad Arshad ul Qadri

Sahih al-Bukhari

Sahih Muslim

Sunan Abu Dawood

Sunan al-Nasa'i

Sunan ibn Majah

Muwatta Imam Malik