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
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