from the time when Muslims realised that, the safeguarding of the Holy Prophet" s Tradition (Sunnah) necessitates compiling the Hadith, a lot of books and collections of Hadith appeared.
These collections of Hadith were not organized in the same style in these collections. Rather, the classification and compilation method
totally differed from one book to another according to the compiner’ s
purpose and taste, or due to the influence of the time and existing scientific devices. This article attempts to introduce the most well-known methods. of Hadith compilation briefly, so that through comparison their values and shortcomings are recognised. .
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