كتاب صحيح الكتب التسعة وزوائده

It is true of the nine books and its appendices

In the name of of Allah the Merciful

Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds, and I bear witness that there is no god but God alone with no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace.

This is a book in which its authors compiled the hadiths of nine books from the Prophet’s Sunnah and the appendices of the Hadith books, in which they collected hadiths:

 Sahih Al-Bukhari

 It is true Muslim

Sunan Abi Dawood

Sunan al-Tirmidhi

 And Sunan an-Nasa’i

 And Sunan Ibn Majah, these are known as the Six Books at the Mashareqah

And Muwatta Malik

 And the Musnad of Ahmad and these are known as the Seven Principles according to Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani.

 and Sunan al-Darmi

 And authentic books of appendices, which are:

• Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah

And Sahih Ibn Hibban

• Al-Mustadrak and Al-Sahih Al-Hakim

• Sunan al-Daraqutni

The Musnad of Abu Ali

• The workbook of Abdul Razzaq

• The workbook by Ibn Abi Shaybah

Sunan Saeed bin Mansour

• "Knowledge of Sunan and Effects" Al-Bayhaqi

• The "singular literature" of Bukhari

• And the "Sunnah" Ibn Abi Asim

• Al-Tabarani's three dictionaries (large, middle, and small dictionaries)

• Al-Sunan Al-Kobra by Al-Bayhaqi

• The ten ancestors are: Musnad Al-Tayalisi, Musnad Musadad, Musnad Al-Hamidi, Musnad of Ishaq bin Rahwayh, Musnad of Ibn Abi Shaybah, Musnad Al-Adni, Musnad of Abd bin Hamid, Musnad of Al-Harith bin Abi Usama, Musnad of Ahmad bin Munea, and Musnad of Abi Ali Al-Kabir.

 Collect the hadiths of these books for investigation.

 And they deleted the chain of transmission - which is the chain of men that connects to the body - and they mentioned it only the supreme narrator, they deleted the chain of transmission in short.

 And they mentioned the text - which is the words of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, or his action or his determination - but they omitted the repetition for short as well.

 And they hunt down the verdict on the hadith with validity, goodness, or weakness, for the weak among the hadiths is accepted, and they do not respond except for the very weak or the subject matter.

 They explained strange words to clarify the meaning.

 Arranged the hadiths on the chapters and topics, and strive hard in that, so the hadiths of knowledge in the book of knowledge, and hadiths of faith in the book of faith and so on, which facilitate the benefit of this book.

 This book is a compilation of the Sunnah of the Prophet, close to its hadiths, easy to use.

 The authors have been active in this work, and whenever they ask me for advice, I give it to them.

And I ask God the Most Generous that this work will benefit its writer and reader, and everyone who has contributed to spreading the sciences of Islam, O God, Amen.

Prof. Dr. Abdul-Mahdi Abdel-Qader Abdel-Hadi, Head of Hadith Department

Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion, Al-Azhar University