List of hadith collections

The following is a list of Hadīth collections, which are sources that contain the sayings, acts or tacit approvals, validly or invalidly, ascribed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and collected by Muhaddiths.

Sunni collections

• Kutub al-Sittah, the Six Canonical Books of Hadith.

1. Sahih al-Bukhari
2. Sahih Muslim
3. Sunan Abu Dawood
4. Sunan al-Tirmidhi
5. Sunan al-Nasa'i
6. Sunan ibn Majah

• Other Primary/Major Collections (Primary Hadith books are those books which are collected and written by author or their students themselves).

1. Muwatta Imam Malik
2. Kitaab-ul-Aathaar
3. Sunan ad-Darimi
4. Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal
5. Saheeh Ibn Khuzaymah
6. Sahih Ibn Hibban
7. Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain of Imam Hakim (Talkhis al-Mustadrak)
8. Al-Mu'jam al-Kabir of Al-Tabarani
9. Al-Mu'jam al-Awsat of Al-Tabarani
10. Al-Mu'jam as-Saghir of Al-Tabarani
11. Musnad al Tayalisi
12. Musnad Abu Awaanah
13. Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah
14. Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq
15. Al-Adab al-Mufrad
16. Sunan al-Kubra lil Bayhaqi (Al-Sunan al-Kabir)
17. Shuab ul Iman
18. Shama'il Muhammadiyah (Shamaail Tirmidhi)
19. Musannaf ibn Jurayj
20. Sunan al-Kubra lil Nasa'i
21. Sahifah Hammam ibn Munabbih
22. Tahdhib al-Athar
23. Musnad Imam ul A’zam
24. Musnad al-Shafi'i
25. Musnad al-Siraj
26. Musnad al-Firdous
27. Musnad Abu Ya'la
28. Sunan Sa'id ibn Mansur
29. Khasais of Amir Al Momenin
30. Sunan Dar Al-Qutni
31. Musnad Humaidi Imam Al-Humaydi
32. Musnad Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh
33. Musnad al-Bazzar
34. Sunan al-Wusta

• Secondary books of Hadiths (Secondary Hadith books are those books which have been selected, compiled and collated from the Primary Hadith books and are not original collections.)

1. At-Targhib wat-Tarhib
2. Mishkat al-Masabih
3. Masabih al-Sunnah
4. Riyadh al-Saaliheen (The Meadows of the Righteous)
5. Bulugh al-Maram (Achievement of the Goal)
6. Majma al-Zawa'id
7. Kanz al-Ummal
8. Zujajat al-Masabih
9. Muntakhab Ahadith
10. Al-Mawdū'āt Al-Kubrā (A Great Collection of Fabricated Traditions)
11. Silsilah Ahadith as-Sahihah of Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani
12. Jami' as-Sahih of Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i

Shia collections

• Al-Kutub Al-Arb'ah, the Four books

1. Kitab al-Kafi of Kulayni (divided into Usul al-Kafi, Furu al-Kafi and Rawdat al-Kafi)
2. Man La Yahduruhu al-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq
3. Tahdhib al-Ahkam of Shaikh Tusi
4. al-Istibsar of Shaikh Tusi

• Primary Hadith Collection (Primary Hadith books are those books which are collected, compiled and written by author or their students themselves).

1. The Book of Sulaym ibn Qays by Sulaym ibn Qays
2. Kitab ul Momin by Hussain bin Saeed Ahwazi
3. al-Mahasin by Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Barqi
4. Al-Amali by Shaikh Tusi
5. Al-Amali of Shaikh Saduq
6. Al Tawheed of Shaikh Saduq
7. Uyun Akhbar al-Ridha by Shaykh Saduq
8. Tuhaf al-Uqul by Ibn Shuja Harrani
9. Al-Amali by Shaikh Mufid
10. Nahj al-Balaghah by Al-Sharif al-Radi
11. Khasais of Al Aemmah by Al-Sharif al-Radi
12. Daim al-Islam by Al-Qadi al-Nu'man
13. Al-Ihtijaj by Abu Mansur Ahmad Tabrisi
14. Kamil al-Ziyarat by ibn al-Qummi
15. Al Saqib Fi al-Manâqib by Ibn Hamaza Tusi
16. Basâ'ir al-darajât by Sheikh Al-Safar al-Qummi

• Books of Ma'sum

1. Tafseer Quran by ImamAli
2. Book of Fatimah by Bibi Fatimah
3. Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya by Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin
4. Risala Al Huqooq by Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin
5. Al-Sahifat al-Ridha by Ali al-Ridha
6. Al-Risalah al-Dhahabiah by Ali al-Ridha
7. Tafseer Imam Hasan Askari by Imam Hasan Askari (Doubts about Authenticity)

• Secondary books of Hadiths (Secondary Hadith books are those books which are not collected, compiled and written by author himself but rather they are selected from already existing Hadith books i.e Primary Hadith books)

1. Al-Wafi by Mohsen Fayz Kashani
2. Wasā'il al-Shīʿa by Shaikh al-Hur al-Aamili
3. Bihar al-Anwar by Allama Majlesi
4. Haq ul-Yaqeen by Allama Majlisi
5. Ayn al-Hayat by Allama Majlisi
6. Ghurar al-Hikam wa Durar al-Kalim by Abdul Wahid al-Tamimi
7. Mustadrak Al-wasa'il by Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi
8. Safinat al-bihar by Shaykh Abbas Qumi
9. Mustadrak safinat al-bihar by Shaykh 'Ali Namazi
10. Jami' ahadith al-Shi'a by Hossein Borujerdi
11. Nahj-al feṣāḥa by Abul Qasem Payandeh
12. Mizan Al Hikma by Mohammad Reyshahri

Ibadi collections

• Jami Sahih
• Tartib al-Musnad

See also

• List of Sunni books
• List of Shia books
• List of Islamic texts