The word · Hadith
الصَّحِيحَان
Sahihayn
The two Sahihs, of al-Bukhari and Muslim, the most rigorously screened collections in Sunni Islam.
Also written · Sahihain · Saheehain · As-Sahihayn · Saheehayn · The two Sahihs · Bukhari and Muslim · Shaykhayn · Sheikhain · Sahihain hadith
The meaning
What Sahihayn means in Islam
Both authors set out to include only what they judged authentic, and these two books were received by the community with an acceptance given to no others. A small number of their reports were criticised by later specialists such as al-Daraqutni, and most of those criticisms concern a particular chain rather than the meaning of the text. Saying a hadith is in the Sahihayn normally ends the argument about its authenticity.
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- Sahih al-BukhariThe collection of Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari, held to be the soundest book after the Qur'an.صَحِيحُ البُخَارِيّ
- Sahih MuslimThe collection of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, second of the two Sahihs and the better organised of them.صَحِيحُ مُسْلِم
- Muttafaq alayhReported by both al-Bukhari and Muslim, which is the highest ordinary grade of authenticity.مُتَّفَقٌ عَلَيْه
- Kutub SittahThe six hadith collections that became the standard reference set in Sunni Islam.الكُتُبُ السِّتَّة
More from Hadith
- AdalahThe uprightness of a narrator: sane, adult, Muslim, not openly sinful, not known for shameful habits.العَدَالَة
- GharibA hadith narrated by only one person at some point in its chain.الغَرِيب
- Ilm al-RijalThe biographical science of the narrators: who they were, whom they met, and how reliable each was.عِلْمُ الرِّجَال
- MatnThe actual wording of a hadith, the part that comes after the chain of narrators.المَتْن
- Munqati'A chain with a break in it: a narrator missing somewhere in the middle.المُنْقَطِع
- Riwayah bi al-Ma'naNarrating a hadith in one's own words while keeping its meaning, rather than the exact wording.الرِّوَايَةُ بِالمَعْنَى