International / sequential
1–7563 here. Every isnad is a number — including “the same hadith through another chain.”
Sahih Muslim
How Muslim grades — and why the numbers disagree
مُسْلِمُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ النَّيْسَابُورِي
206–261 AH
Muslim does not stamp Sahih on each report. The book is the grade. What looks like many hadiths is often one wording on several roads — and each edition counts those roads differently.
Arabic / Abdul-Baqi
About 3,033 matns. Variant roads are dotted: 8.01, 8.02… The number people usually mean by “Muslim 8.”
In-book
Book and hadith inside the kitab: Faith 1:1 is Jibril’s first road, not sequential 1.
Two doors, one grade-word
Bukhari and Muslim both kept only sahih. They do not use the same key for the lock.
Bukhari — proof of meeting
He wanted evidence that A had sat with B, not only that they lived at the same time. That extra door is liqa.
Muslim — contemporaneity
If two thiqah men shared an era and tadlis is not feared, Muslim accepts the link (muasarah). He then lays every other road beside it.
The introduction is method
Sequential 1–92 sit in book 0 — the Muqaddimah. They teach why the isnad is religion. They are not the first hadiths of Kitab al-Iman.
Later stamps
Al-Albani, Shaib al-Arnaut and others grade the Sunan by name. On Muslim the API is empty because the compiler already closed the file.
Who is allowed to grade
The compiler
Bukhari and Muslim grade by inclusion. A report in the Sahih already passed their door. A blank grade is not a missing test.
The teacher-collector
Tirmidhi names sahih, hasan, gharib on the page. Abu Dawud often flags a wound, or is silent on purpose.
The later critic
Albani, Arnaut, Ahmad Shakir, Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi, Zubair Ali Zai. They re-walk old files. They can disagree — that disagreement is the method working.
The reader
A grade is about attribution to him ﷺ, not about whether the sentence is wise. For fiqh, ask a qualified scholar.
The numbering trap · Ar. 8
Hadith of Jibril — Arabic 8
Five roads of one matn. Abdul-Baqi 8.01–8.05, sequential 93–97, in-book Faith 1:1–1:5. Sequential 8 is still in the Muqaddimah — empty of this wording.
Opening the book…
Roads of this wording
Muslim gathered the tree. Each row is one isnad, not a new sentence.
Open this road