Hadith of Gabriel Hadith of Gabriel In Sunnī Islām, the Hadith of Gabriel "(ḥadīth Jibrīl)" is the single most important "Hadīth" (report on the words and actions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad), the last prophet of Islam. Its narrative contains the best summary of the core of Islam: the "Five Pillars of Islam", the "Six Articles of Faith", and Ihsan, or "doing what is beautiful". This "Hadīth" is found in both the Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and the Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim. The hadith is known to express the religion of Islam in a nutshell. Muslim scholars named this hadith the Hadith of Gabriel, because it is
Hadith terminology "musnad" ( meaning "supported") "hadith" as: A "musnad hadith" should not be confused with the type of "hadith" collection similarly termed "musannaf", which is arranged according to the name of the companion narrating each "hadith". For example, a "musnad" might begin by listing a number of the "hadith", complete with their respective "sanads", of Abu Bakr, and then listing a number of "hadith" from Umar, and then Uthman ibn Affan and so on. Individual compilers of this type of collection may vary in their method of arranging those Companions whose "hadith" they were collecting. An example of this type of