Muslim scholars and theologians have the first three centuries debated and studied the question of which of the surviving traditions which contradict each other in some respects, are authentic and which later invented. The Hadith are then included in numerous collections, of which the Sunni six qualify. Islam as reliable These are recorded around 800-850.
The authors are: Al-Bukhari , Muslim , Abu Dawud , Tirmidzi , An-Nasâ'ie and Ibn Majah with the respective collections: Sahih Bukhari , Sahih Muslim , Abu Dawood from Suna , Jami at-Tirmidhi , an-Nasai of Suna and Suna Ibn Majah . Yet existed before that time all Hadith collections. However, these were less systematic in design and they did not meet the strict criteria which mainly Al-Bukhari and Muslim formulated.
In the course of time because there were a lot of stories about Muhammad invented, because it could assert if one claimed that Muhammad had said.'s A story strength Muslims assume that these six researchers accurately the wheat from the chaff separated. Some Islamologists found that the reliability of a tradition is no longer to identify and attract the reliability of the hadith literature so integral in question.
A highly respected interpreter and " editor "of the Hadith from the ninth century Al-Bukhari , a Sunni scholar. Along with Muslim , another Hadith scholar, he explained collections of 'highly reliable hadith. If a Hadith in which Al-Bukhari and Muslim in which occurs, Muslims will assume that it is an authentic story. Both laid fact very critical criteria for recording a Hadith. There were approximately 600,000 traditions about Muhammad in circulation, but Al-Bukhari took only 7,000 in his collection on, these concerns are 3000 varieties of the same tradition. Al-Bukhari and Muslim have had great influence on the development of Islamic law .