Al-Sunan al-Sughra, also known as Sunan al-Nasa'i , is one of the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadiths), and was collected by al-Nasa'i (214 – 303 AH; c. 829 – 915 CE).

Description

Sunnis regard this collection as the third most important of their six major hadith collections. Al-Mujtaba (English: the selected) has 5,758 hadiths, including repeated narrations, which the author selected from his larger work, As-Sunan al-Kubra. Within Kutub al-Sittah, it is considered the most authentic book of hadith (narrations of Muhammad) after the Sahihayn (Sahih al-Bukhari & Sahih Muslim) by most scholars of hadith.

Views

According to al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar, the book of Sunan an-Nasa'i contains the fewest da‘eef (weak) hadiths and majrooh narrators among the six books after the Saheehain (Sahih al-Bukhari & Sahih Muslim); there is not a single mawdhoo (fabricated) hadith in it. It is claimed Sunan al-Sughra is "politically biased" towards Ali radiutalah anhu.

Contents

Editor, Sayyid Kasrawī Hasan's 1991, Beirut publication, in 6 volumes, provides the standard topical classification of the hadith Arabic text. The book contains 52 chapters. • # Purification • # Water • # Menstruation and Istihadah • # Ghusl and Tayammum • # Salah • # the Times (of Prayer) • # the Adhan (The Call to Prayer) • # the Masjids • # the Qiblah • # Leading the Prayer (Al-Imamah) • # the Commencement of the Prayer • # The At-Tatbiq (Clasping One's Hands Together) • # Forgetfulness (In Prayer) • # Jumu'ah (Friday Prayer) • # Shortening the Prayer When Traveling • # Eclipses • # Praying for Rain (Al-Istisqa') • # the Fear Prayer • # the Prayer for the Two 'Eids • # Qiyam Al-Lail (The Night Prayer) and Voluntary Prayers During the Day • # Funerals • # Fasting • # Zakah • # Hajj • # Jihad • # Marriage • # Divorce • # Horses, Races and Shooting • # Endowments • # Wills • # Presents • # Gifts • # ar-Ruqba • # 'Umra • # Oaths and Vows • # Agriculture • # the Kind Treatment of Women • # Fighting [The Prohibition of Bloodshed] • # Distributionof Al-Fay' • # al-Bay'ah • # al-'Aqiqah • # al-Fara' andal-'Atirah • # Hunting and Slaughtering • # ad-Dahaya (Sacrifices) • # Financial Transactions • # Oaths (qasamah), Retaliation and Blood Money • # Cutting off the Hand of the Thief • # Faith and its Signs • # Adornment • # the Etiquette of Judges • # Seeking Refuge with Allah • # Drinks

Commentaries and translations

The book and its commentaries have been published by different publishers around the world : Arabic commentaries & annotations (ألف) (ت) (ح) (د) (ز) (ر) (ش) (ع) (ف) (ك) (م) Urdu commentaries & annotations