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The Sunni canon of hadith took its final form four to five centuries after the death of Muhammad. Later scholars may have debated the authenticity of particular hadith but the authority of the canon as a whole was not questioned. This canon includes: al-Bukhari (d. 870) included 7275 hadiths Muslim b. al-Hajjaj (d. 875) included 9200. Abu Da'ud (d. 888) al-Tirmidhi (d. 892) ...

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Hadith - Hadith accepted by Sunni Islam

al-Bukhari (d. 870) included 7275 hadiths
Muslim b. al-Hajjaj (d. 875) included 9200.
Abu Da'ud (d. 888)
al-Tirmidhi (d. 892)
al-Nasa'i (d. 915)
Ibn Maja (d. 886).

al-Bukhari and Muslim are usually considered the most reliable of these collections. There is some debate over whether the sixth member of this canon should be Ibn Maja or the Muwatta of Imam Malik, which is the earliest hadith canon but predates much of the methodology developed by the classic hadith scholars.

While there are still many traditional Muslims who rely on the ulema and its long tradition of hadith collection and criticism, other contemporary Sunni Muslims are willing to reconsider tradition. Liberal Muslims are most apt to trust the individual conscience, but there are also Salafis who demand the same freedom. The Salafis claim that the ordinary believer can trust his or her own judgment (even if he or she is not trained in Islamic scholarship) if he or she relies on Bukhari and Muslim, the commentators deemed to be most correct (sahih), and ignores the weak hadith.

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