Sunnah and Hadith
Understand authority, transmission, grading and verification
A hadith is not authenticated because it is popular. Learn isnad, matn, sahih, hasan, da‘if, mawdu‘, takhrij and how scholars assess reports.
Hadith terminologyIsnad, matn, sahih, hasan, da‘if, mawdu‘ and ‘illah.Is this hadith authentic?Provide the wording or part of it so the source can be checked.Shaykh al-AlbaniUse his hadith work within the wider hadith tradition and original sources.Hadith booksBukhari, Muslim, the Sunan, Riyad al-Salihin, ‘Umdat al-Ahkam and Bulugh al-Maram.Verification methodSource, attribution, context and issue matching all matter.Sunnah in SeerahUse authentic reports to anchor biography.
Do not collapse the grades
Weak does not automatically mean fabricated
Hadith grading belongs to hadith scholarship. The site records the grading and grader when that information is sourced.