''Shuab ul Iman'', ( ar, شعب الايمان), is a
Hadith
Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...
book compiled by Imam
Al-Bayhaqi
Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Mūsā al-Khusrawjirdī al-Bayhaqī ( ar, أبو بكر أحمد بن حسين بن علي بن موسى الخسروجردي البيهقي, 994–1066), also known as Imām al-Bayhaqī, was born c. ...
(384 AH – 458 AH). The author provides an exhaustive textual commentary relating to foundations of faith and its branches.
Description
It is one of the major collection of
Hadith
Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...
s compiled by Imam Behaqi besides his other major work in the field of Hadiths. According to Maktaba Shamila it contains almost eleven thousands (11000) Hadiths (narrations). This book describes branches of faith (Shuab ul Iman) and Imam basically has chosen the name of the book according to a Hadith of Prophet
Mohammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monoth ...
in which he mentioned that there are more than seventy (70) branches of faith.
According to the book, Iman (faith) has three major branches as follows.
* 'Iman bil Qalb' (''Testimony by Heart of all the Essentials of Iman''): It refers to the states of one's ‘Qalb’ (Heart) including the ‘Niyyah’ (Intentions), ‘Aqayid’ (Doctrines), and other deeds of the heart. This entirely depends upon a person's ‘Batin’ (Hidden) states.
* 'Iman bil Lisan' (''Testimony by Tongue of all the essentials of Iman''): It refers to the confirmation of all the essentials of Islam and adhering to them through one's ‘Lisan’ (Tongue). In other words, it is ‘Zahir’ (Apparent) in one's life, reflects the state of one's heart and generates through the tongue.
* 'Iman bil A’maal' (''Testimony by Actions of all the essentials of Iman''): It refers to one's ‘A’maal’ (Deeds) and is also ‘Zahir’ (Apparent), and is also a reflection of one's heart but generates from one's deeds and actions.
Publications
Several publishers have published the book in different langues (original book is in Arabic):
* 'Shuab -ul- Iman': Published: Book on Demand (1 Jan. 1901)
* 'Shu‘ab al-īmān (9 v.) by Bayhaqī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn' : Published: Bayrūt : Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmīyah, 2008.
* ' al-Jami' li Shu'ab al-Iman 15 VOLUMES (الجَامِعُ لِشُعَبْ الإِيمَان) by Imam al-Bayhaqi': Published: PUBLISHED: Ministry of Religious Endowment of Qatar / Dar al-Salafiyyah , Mumbai, India (2008)
* ' Shuab -Ul- Iman -Urdu- by Imam Bayhaqi (R.A)': Published: Nobel Press
See also
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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 and its translations (in English)
:# ''The Meaning of the Glorio ...
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Sunan al-Bayhaqi
''Sunan al-Kubra lil Bayhaqi'', ( ar, ٱلسُّنَن ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ لِلْبَيْهَقِيّ), or Al-Sunan al-Kabir ( ar, ٱلسُّنَن ٱلْكَبِير) is a prominent Hadith book compiled by Imam Al-Bayhaqi (384 AH – 458 AH ...
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Sunan al-Wusta
''Al-Sunan al-Wusta'', ( ar, السنن الوسطى), or Marifat al-Sunan wa-al-Athar ( ar, معرفة السنن والآثار) is a hadith book compiled by Imam Al-Bayhaqi (384 AH – 458 AH). It is twenty volumes which provides a compilatio ...
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