Sahih Muslim

Sahih Muslim represents the second pillar of authentic hadith literature, compiled by Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Naysaburi (206-261 AH/822-875 CE). Distinguished by its systematic organization and clarity of presentation, this collection contains approximately 7,500 hadiths selected from 300,000 narrations. Imam Muslim devoted fifteen years to this monumental work, traveling extensively across the Islamic world to verify each tradition. Unlike other collections, Sahih Muslim groups hadiths by legal topics and presents all variants of a narration together, making it invaluable for jurisprudential study. The compiler emphasized narrator reliability and chain continuity, accepting only hadiths transmitted by trustworthy narrators who met their teachers personally. Together with Sahih al-Bukhari, these two works form the 'Sahihayn' (The Two Sahihs), representing the gold standard of hadith authenticity.