Description
Al-Tirmidhi Wahuwa Al-Jami’ Al-Sahih, is one of the six top compilations of hadith collections known in the Islamic world.
Al-Hafiz Abu Al-Fadl Al-Maqdisi said: ‘I heard Al-Imam Abu Ismail `Abdullah bin Muhammad Al-Ansari in Harrah — when Abu `Eisa At-Tirmidhi and his book was mentioned before him — saying: `To me, his book is better than the book of Al-Bukhari and that of Muslim. Because only one who is an expert in knowledge can arrive at the benefit of the books of Al-Bukhari and Muslim, whereas in the case of the book of Abu `Eisa, every one of the people can reach its benefit.’
After Sunan Abi Dawood, Imam At-Tirmidhi’s Jami`- better known as ‘Sunan At-Timidi’ is considered the most authentic among the Four Sunan. In fact, some scholars even considered Sunan At-Tirmidhi to be the best out of all of the Six Books, not based upon criteria of authenticity, but rather because of how well organized it is, making it easy for the average person to find what he is looking for, and all of the additional areas of knowledge that the author has included, which are not found in the other titles among the Six.
For example, after citing the narrations of a chapter, he often explains the views of the famous A’imamah of Fiqh, like Ahmad, Ash-Shafi’i, Malik, and others. In this manner he makes clear the interpretations of these great scholars, and why they did or did not act upon this Hadith, or its like, making this collection an important Fiqh reference.
About the Author
Imam al-Tirmidhi (died 912 AD) was born to a family of the widespread Banu Sulaym tribe in Bugh, a suburb of Termez. Starting at the age of twenty, he traveled widely, to Kufa, Basra, and the Hijaz, seeking knowledge from Qutaiba ibn Said, Bukhari, Imam Mulsim, and Abu Dawud, among others.
He wrote the Sunan al-Tirmidhi, one of the six canonical hadith compilations used in Sunni Islam, and nine other books, of which “Shamail” is best-known. He played a major part in giving the formerly vague terminology used in classifying hadith according to their reliability a more precise set of definitions. Tirmidhi was blind in the last two years of his life.
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