Hadith of the ten with glad tidings of paradise "Sunan Abu Dawood", "Al-Sunan al-Sughra", "Jami` at-Tirmidhi" and "Sunan ibn Majah". "Sahih al-Bukhari" and "Sahih Muslim" are considered the most reliable of these collections. Sunnis say that Muhammad's companions were sorted into twelve groups and of these the ten promised paradise were ranked first. Hadith of the ten with glad tidings of paradise The Islamic prophet, Muhammad, specified ten of his companions who were promised paradise. Those companions named in this hadith are referred to as The Ten With Glad Tidings Of Paradise (; "al-`Asharaa al-Mubasharûn bi-l-Janna"). Muslims put different weight on this hadith, the majority of the Sunnis, viewing
Hadith terminology its source. This provides confirmation that the "hadith" is authentically attributed to its source at a level above reasonable doubt. This is due to its being beyond historical possibility that narrators could have conspired to forge a narration. In contrast, an "ahaad hadith" is a narration the chain of which has not reached a number sufficient to qualify as "mutawatir". "Hadiths" can be "mutawatir" in both actual text and meaning: The second category, "ahaad" ( meaning "singular") narration, refers to any "hadith" not classified as "mutawatir". Linguistically, "hadith ahad" refers to a "hadith" narrated by only one narrator. In "hadith"