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A Critical Assessment of Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Forward
• A critical assessment of Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim
• Part One: A Critical Assessment of Sahih Bukhari
• Chapter One
• Bukhari as a Narrator
• Abu Zar’ah and Abu Hatam on Bukhari
• A glance at the biography of Abu Zar’ah Razi
• A glance at biography of Abu Hatam Razi
• Zuhli and his criticism of Bukhari
• A glance at Duhli’s life
• Bukhari and his deviation from the path of Ahl al-Bayt
• Ibn Dihya’s opinion
• A glance at Ibn Dihya’s life
• Bukhari and Ghadir tradition
• Major Sunni scholars and Ghadir tradition
• Ibn JAzer and Ghadir tradition
• Bukhari and his skepticism about Imam Sadiq’s traditions
• Sunni scholars and issue of loving Prophet’s progeny
• Are they truthful in making this claim?
• Qattan and his criticism of Imam Sadiq (a.s)
• Who is Mujalid bin Sa’eed?
• Dahabi and Imam Sadiq (a.s)
• Who is Qattan?
• Incredible claims
• The story of Ibn Madini’s al-Ilal
• Chapter Two
• Baseless Traditions in Sahih Bukhari
• The tradition of ‘[Prophet’s] proposing to 'Aisha
• The tradition of ‘intercession of Ibrahim for Azer’
• Fakhr Razi’s opinion
• Ibn Hajar Asqalani and justification of this tradition
• Falsity of Ibn Hajar's view
• The tradition of Prophet's ‘praying on the corpse of Ibn Abu Sulul’
• Why this tradition was fabricated?
• The tradition of ‘three lies told by Prophet Ibrahim’
• Fakhr Razi rejects this tradition
• The tradition of ‘a prophet setting ant’s nest on fire’
• Fakhr Razi rejects this tradition
• The tradition of ‘eating forbidden meat’
• Distortion in a fabricated tradition
• Justification of meaning of tradition
• Some Sunni scholars accept this false tradition
• Others are after solution
• An evacuation of this solution
• The tradition ‘Prophets do not leave behind inheritance’
• The tradition of ‘Ali’s quarrel with Prophet over nightprayer’
• A glance at Imam Ali’s excellences
• Fabricated tradition and the objection of fatalism
• Falsity of fatalism from the viewpoint of Ibn Taymiyya
• Ibn Taymiyya and appealing to a fabricated tradition
• The tradition of Ali's ‘proposing to Abu Jahl’s daughter’
• The tradition of 'the cause of the revelation of Quranic verse'
• The tradition that allows taking wage for reciting from the Holy Quran
• The tradition of 'asking for rain' narrated by Asbat
• The tradition 'traditions will increase after me'
• The tradition that prohibits (playing) musical instruments
• The tradition 'a believing adulterer does not in fact commit adultery'
• Three persons take Prophet to Mi'araj
• Monkey stoned to death for fornication
• Bukhari and three other fabricated traditions
• Great Sunni leaders and these fabricated traditions
• A critique of Asqalani's point of view
• The Tradition Masruq Narrates from Um Ruman
• Great memorizers and this fabricated tradition
• A glance at the life account of some the [said] memorizers
• An account of the life of 'Alai, a memorizer
• Ibn Sikkin and the said fabricated tradition
• An evaluation of the opinion of author of al-Huda
• Temporary Marriage forbidden in Khaibar year
• Great Sunni scholars and this fake tradition
• Ibn Hajar 'Asqalani
• Dehlavi
• Imam Shaf'ai
• Abstract
• Part Two: An evaluation of Sahih Muslim
• Ibrahim bin Abdullah Sa'adi and Sahih Muslim
• Abu Zar'ah Razi and Sahih Muslim
• Fabricated traditions in Sahih Bukhari
• A fabricated tradition on Abu Talib
• Fabricated tradition rejected
• Tradition indicative of caliphate of Abu Bakr
• Sunni scholars on this fabricated tradition
• Umar orders calling to prayer
• Two contradictory traditions
• First verse revealed to Prophet
• Bibliography
• Notes