Sharh Usul al-Kafi

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Hadith collections

Sunni six major collections
(Al-Sihah al-Sittah):

1. Sahih al-Bukhari
   
2. Sahih Muslim
   
3. Sunan an-Nasa'i al-Sughra
   
4. Sunan Abu Dawood
   
5. Sunan al-Tirmidhi
   
6. Sunan Ibn Maja
   

Shi'a Twelver collections:

• "The Four Books" (Al-Kutub Al-Arb'ah)

1. Kitab al-Kafi of Kulainy
   
2. Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq
   
3. Tahdhib al-Ahkam by Shaikh Tusi
   
4. al-Istibsar by Shaykh Tusi
   

Ibadi collections:

• al-Jami' as-Sahih by al-Rabi' ibn Habib
• Tartib al-Musnad by al-Warijlani

• Al-Muwatta
  
• Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal - 780-855
  
• Sunan al-Darimi - 868
  
• Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah - 923
• Sahih Ibn Hibbaan - 965
• Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain - 1014
  
• Mawdu'at al-Kubra- 1128-1217
  
• Riyadh as-Saaliheen - 1233 - 1278
  
• Mishkat al-Masabih - 1340
• Talkhis al-Mustadrak - 1274-1348
  
• Majma al-Zawa'id - 1335-1405
  
• Bulugh al-Maram - 1372-1449
  
• Kanz al-Ummal - 1500th
  

• The book of Sulaym ibn Qays - 600th
  
• Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya - 678-713
  
• Wasael ush-Shia - 1600s
  
• Bihar al-Anwar - 1600s
  
• Haqq al-Yaqeen - 1600s
  
• Ain Al-Hayat - 1600s
  
• Sharh Usul al-Kafi - ?-1081
  

• Qalam-e-Mowla
  
• Daim al-Islam
  

• Nahj with comments - ?-1258