''Kitab al-Athar'' (), is one of the earliest
Hadith
Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...
books compiled by Imam
Muhammad al-Shaybani
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Farqad ash-Shaybānī (; 749/50 – 805), known as Imam Muhammad, the father of Muslim international law, was an Arab Muslim Ulama, jurist and a disciple of Abu Hanifa (later being the eponym o ...
(132 AH – 189 AH), the student of
Imam Abu Hanifa. This book is sometimes attributed to
Imam Abu Hanifa.
Description
The book contains almost 1,000
hadith
Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...
s according to
Al-Maktaba Al-Shamela. It is one of the oldest Hadith book written. The book contains many Hadiths that connect directly to the Islamic prophet
Muhammad
Muhammad (8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious and political leader and the founder of Islam. Muhammad in Islam, According to Islam, he was a prophet who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the tawhid, monotheistic teachings of A ...
while others are the narrations of
Sahaba
The Companions of the Prophet () were the Muslim disciples and followers of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who saw or met him during his lifetime. The companions played a major role in Muslim battles, society, hadith narration, and governance ...
s (companions of
Muhammad
Muhammad (8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious and political leader and the founder of Islam. Muhammad in Islam, According to Islam, he was a prophet who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the tawhid, monotheistic teachings of A ...
). Some of its Hadiths also attributed to students of
Sahaba
The Companions of the Prophet () were the Muslim disciples and followers of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who saw or met him during his lifetime. The companions played a major role in Muslim battles, society, hadith narration, and governance ...
s.
Publications
The book has been published by many organizations around the world:
* '' Al-Athar of Imam Abu Hanifah'': Published: Turath Publishing (25 November 2006)
* ''Al-Athar''. Edited and commented on by
Abul Wafa al-Afghani. Hyderabad, India: Lajnat Iḥyāʾ al-Maʿārif al-Nuʿmāniyya,
eprinted by Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, Beirut
See also
*
List of Sunni books
This is a list of significant books in the doctrines of Sunni Islam. A classical example of an index of Islamic books can be found in Kitāb al-Fihrist of Ibn Al-Nadim.
The Qur'an
Qur'anic translations ''(in English)''
Some notable & famous ...
*
Kutub al-Sittah
(), also known as () are the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam. They were all compiled in the 9th and early 10th centuries, roughly from 840 to 912 CE and are thought to embody the Sunnah of Muhammad.
The books are the of al ...
*
Sahih Muslim
() is the second hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. Compiled by Islamic scholar Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj () in the format, the work is valued by Sunnis, alongside , as the most important source for Islamic religion after the Q ...
*
Jami al-Tirmidhi
*
Sunan Abu Dawood
''Sunan Abi Dawud'' () is the third hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. It was compiled by scholar Abu Dawud al-Sijistani ().
Introduction
Abu Dawood compiled twenty-one books related to Hadith and preferred those (plural of ...
*
Jami' at-Tirmidhi
* Either:
Sunan ibn Majah,
Muwatta Malik
References
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9th-century Arabic-language books
10th-century Arabic-language books
Sunni literature
Sunni hadith collections