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
Sunni Islam principal articles of faith known as the six pillars of "iman" (Arabic for "faith"), which are believed to be essential. These are These six articles are what "all" present-day Sunnis agree on, from those who adhere to traditional Sunnism to those who adhere to latter-day movements. Additionally, classical Sunni Islam also outlined numerous other cardinal doctrines from the eighth-century onwards in the form of organized creeds such as the Creed of Tahawi, in order to codify what constituted "Sunni orthodoxy." While none of these creeds gained the importance attributed to the Nicene Creed in Christianity, primarily because ecumenical councils never