Hadith-Project

An open Hadith Library that contains full databases of 9 different books (including the Six Books), with the Elaboration of the 'Ahadith', all the following are included:

• Sahih al-bukhari (صحيح البخاري).
• Sahih Muslim (صحيح مسلم).
• Sunan Abu-Dawud (سُنن ابي داود).
• Jami al-Tirmidhi (جامع الترمذي).
• Al-Sunan al-Sughra, collected by al-Nasa'i (السُنن الصغري).
• Sunan ibn Majah (سُنن بن ماجه).
• Muwatta Malik (موطأ الإمام مالك).
• Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal (مُسند الإمام أحمد بن حنبل).
• Sunan al-Darimi (سُنن الدارمي).

Kutub al-Sittah (Arabic: ٱلْكُتُب ٱلسِّتَّة, romanized: al-Kutub al-Sitta, lit. 'the Six Books'), also known as al-Sihah al-Sitta (Arabic: الصحاح الستة, romanized: al-Ṣiḥāḥ al-Sitta, lit. 'the Authentic Six') are the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam. They were compiled in the 9th-century CE.

The books are the Sahih of al-Bukhari (d. 870), the Sahih of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (d. 875), the Sunan of Abu Dawud (d. 889), the Sunan of al-Tirmidhi (d. 892) and the Sunan of al-Nasa'i (d. 915). The canonical version includes the Sunan of Ibn Majah (d. 887 or 889) as the sixth book, though some instead listed the Muwatta of Malik ibn Anas (d. 795) or Sunan of al-Daraqutni (d. 995).

They were first formally grouped and defined by Ibn al-Qaisarani in the 11th century, who added Sunan ibn Majah to the list. The sixth book is disputed in Sunni Muslim jurisprudence; in particular, the Malikis and Ibn al-Athir consider al-Muwatta' to be the sixth book. Some scholars considered Sunan al-Daraqutni to be the sixth book. The reason for the addition of Ibn Majah's Sunan is that it contains many Hadiths which do not figure in the other five, whereas all the Hadiths in the Muwatta' figure in the other Sahih books.

Each folder contains 2 files:

1. A (.csv) file of the 'Ahadith' and 'Tafseel' with Arabic diacritics (tashkeel تشكيل), and Elaboration of Hadith (Tafseel تفصيل الحديث).
2. A (.csv) file of the 'Ahadith' only without Arabic diacritics.

this structure will overcome Arabic Searching problems stated here, so you can search user's input without diacritics, and return results with diacritics.

notes:

• the version with diacritcs include special RTL character that surrounds special words, such as important words or narrator's names. the original writers did that so developers could highlight these words, more information about how to implement this properly is in this link.
• if you feel uncomfortable with the RTL character, you can remove it, and you would still be able to highlight some important words, as they are surrounded by 2 spaces at the beginning and another 2 at the end.
• the vresion without diacritcs is completely clean, no RTL character, no double spaces.
• please don't use the version without diacritcs as your main database, alwayse show Hadith with diacritcs, so they can be read properly.
• the code used to remove the diacritics can be found here.
• UTF-8 encoding is always used.
• both 'Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal' and 'Sunan al-Darimi' don't include elaboration.

The original CSV files can be found in hadith-islamware repository.