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
Introduction to the Science of Hadith al-Ṣalāḥ, in his "Introduction", codified the terminology established by those scholars before him based upon his reading of their works. He did so by citing some of those scholarly statements in the earlier works and deducing from them common terms and definitions in the manner of a scholar authoring a book of "fiqh" (jurisprudence). In this manner, his book was based upon those principles established by the earlier hadith specialists combined with some elements of "fiqh". An example of this would be the inclusion of the division of hadith into "mutawātir" and "āḥād". He therefore only mentioned the statements of