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Shuab ul Iman, (Arabic: شعب الايمان), is a multi-volume Hadith book compiled by Imam al-Bayhaqi (384 AH – 458 AH). [1] The author provides an exhaustive textual commentary relating to foundations of faith and its branches.
It is the largest Sunan Book available in history of Hadith collection, containing almost twenty two thousand (22,000) Hadiths according to Al-Maktaba Al-Shamela. [2] A book with similar name (Sunan al-Kubra) is also written by Imam al-Nasa'i having almost twelve thousand (12,000) hadiths.
The author collected in this book the names and biographies of all, or most, of the hadith narrators mentioned in the six canonical hadith collections.These six books are Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim and the four Sunan books by Al-Nasa'i, al-Tirmidhi, Abu Dawood and Ibn Majah.
Usd al-ghābah fi maʿrifat al-Saḥabah (Arabic: أسد الغابة في معرفة الصحابة, lit. 'Lions of the Wild: On Knowing the Companions'), commonly known as Usd al-Gabah, is a book by Ali ibn al-Athir.
It is one of the largest compilations of Hadiths, including more than thirty seven thousand (37,000) Hadiths. [2] The goal of these authors was to collect whatever they found, not to extract the best, nor to refine them, nor to make them more accessible for use.
This book is considered to be one of the most important Shafi’i books, as it collected the hadith evidence of the school of thought, a way out for it from the Sahih and Sunnah, showing its methods, the reason for what was faltered from it, and the reason for Al-Shafi’i inferring it if it was faltered.
Al-Nawawi (d.1277) criticized the book as containing many hadith which cannot properly be declared mawḍūʻ.Some of them are, according to Al-Suyuti, ḍa‘īf, ḥasan or even ṣaḥīḥ.
book by the name of al-Kamil fi Dhu'afa' al-Rijal.Imam al-Dhahabi has since extended it, refined it and called it Mizan al-Itidal. It is one of the most famous booksin the field of Ilm al-Rijal (Science of Narrators or Biographical evaluation), and is published in five volumes that contain more than 3000 pages. [4]