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Hadith Sahih Muslim in English

Sahih Muslim is a collection of hadith compiled by Imam Muslimibn al-Hajjaj al-Naysaburi (rahimahullah). His collection isconsidered to be one of the most authentic collections of theSunnah of the Prophet, and along with Sahih al-Bukhari forms the"Sahihain," or the "Two Sahihs."
The translation provided by Abdul Hamid Siddiqui.

Sunni Muslims regard this collection as the second mostauthentic of the six major hadith collections, containing onlysahih hadith, an honor it shares only with Sahih al-Bukhari, bothbeing referred to as the Two Sahihs. Shia Muslims (and some sunnis)dismiss some of its contents as fabrications or untrustworthy dueto the questionable reliability of some narrators

Amin Ahsan Islahi, the noted Islamic scholar, has summarizedsome unique features of Sahih Muslim:
1. Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj recorded only such narratives as werereported by two reliable successors from two Sahabah (Companions ofMuhammad) which subsequently travelled through two independentunbroken isnāds consisting of sound narrators. Muhammad al-Bukharihas not followed such a strict criterion.
2. Scientific arrangement of themes and chapters. The author, forexample, selects a proper place for the narrative and, next to it,puts all its versions. Muhammad al-Bukhari has not followed thismethod (he scatters different versions of a narrative and therelated material in different chapters). Consequently, in theexercise of understanding ahādīth. Sahīh of Muslim ibn al-Hajjajoffers the best material to the students.
3. Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj informs us whose wordings among thenarrators he has used. For example he says: haddathanā fulān wafulān wallafz lifulān (A and B has narrated this hadīth to us andthe wording used here is by A). Similarly he mentions whether, in aparticular hadīth, the narrators have differed over the wordingseven over a single letter of zero semantic significance. He alsoinforms the readers if narrators have differed over a specificquality, surname, relation or any other fact about a narrator inthe chain.