Sheikh Muhammad al-Hassan Ould al-Dado said that God Almighty sent His message to the people and pledged to preserve it. On him the revelation came down, so God Almighty revealed: “Do not move your tongue with it to make haste with it.” He also revealed “And do not hurry with the Qur’an before its revelation is completed to you.” So the Noble Messenger knew that God preserved the revealed revelation and did not fear its loss, and God Almighty also prepared the honorable companions who were They listen to the Qur’an and hadiths and memorize them as they are without distortion.

And the Companions began to believe the Noble Messenger, the best of prayers and peace be upon him, and faith was sanctified in their souls, and they glorified it in veneration as God Almighty commanded them to do so.

The hadiths of the Prophet were sacred to the Companions.

And the Messenger of God - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - had given permission for only a few people to write on his behalf and he forbade writing anything other than that, and he said, “Do not write on my behalf other than the Qur’an, and whoever wrote on my behalf other than the Qur’an, let him erase it,” for fear that these writings would be included in the Qur’an as happened with the nations. previous.

After the Qur’an comes the Sunnah, which is the speech of the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, and then the Prophet’s biography, which are events that occurred from the Noble Messenger, such as his travels, conquests, and others, and were narrated from him by his companions and followers.

Regarding the classification in the books of hadiths, Sheikh Muhammad al-Hassan Ould al-Dado said - in his speech to the episode 26/4/2022) of the “Shari’ah and Life in Ramadan” program - that the collection began in the days of Caliph Omar bin Abdul Aziz, when he ordered the imams to collect, write and codify the Sunnahs. , and assigned the task to the middle class of followers.

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And regarding the conditions for accepting the hadith, Sheikh Al-Dado said that the care of the Prophet’s Sunnah was comprehensive, and the research was in the significance, which is the goal, and the research in the narration, which is the research in the support of speech, and the honorable Companions did not need to search in the narration and the chain of transmission because they heard the words of the Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, and believed him.

As for the methods of codification and classification of hadith books, the head of the Center for the Training of Scholars in Mauritania explained this point in detail, and indicated that the codification was classified according to scientific matters such as Muwatta’ books, similar to Muwatta Malik who followed this approach in transcribing hadiths, and there are bloggers who are limited to The Sahih is only like Al-Bukhari, and there is the classification according to the chains of narrators, that they are classified according to the hadiths of the Companions, and there is the dictionaries approach, and then there is a specialization in notation.

He explained that the two imams Bukhari and Muslim may be alone with some hadiths, but what is found in their books is found in other books.