Scripture · c. 850 CE

Hadith collections and the law schools

Bukhara, Baghdad and Medina

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In the ninth century scholars sifted a vast mass of reports about Muhammad's words and deeds into collections such as the Ṣaḥīḥs of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, which Sunnis rank second only to the Qur'an. The four Sunni schools of law took their names from Abū Ḥanīfa, Mālik, al-Shāfiʿī and Ibn Ḥanbal.

People: al-Bukhārī, Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj, al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal

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