The transmitted reports
Read the report. Ask how it reached us.
Seven attributed entry points into intention, worship, mercy, neighbours, knowledge and character.
These are original editorial paraphrases, not quotations or a full hadith collection. The initial selection links to Sunni collections. Shia and Ibadi source selections require further curation and are not represented as complete.
Sahih Muslim 8a
Faith, practice and spiritual attention
The Gabriel report distinguishes Islam, faith and excellence in worship. It is a central Sunni teaching text for the five pillars and six articles of faith.
Listed in Sahih Muslim, a collection regarded as authoritative in Sunni Islam. This status is not a universal agreement across all Muslim traditions.
Read the attributed report ↗Sahih al-Bukhari 1
What an action is for
Actions are evaluated in relation to intentions. The report uses migration to distinguish outwardly similar acts with different purposes.
Included in al-Bukhari’s Sahih. Intentions do not automatically excuse harm or erase responsibility for consequences.
Read the attributed report ↗Sahih al-Bukhari 6015
The person next door
The repeated emphasis on a neighbour’s rights is described as so strong that the narrator expected neighbours might receive inheritance rights.
Included in al-Bukhari’s Sahih. This is a concise paraphrase, not the collection’s English wording.
Read the attributed report ↗Sahih Muslim 2319a
Mercy toward others
The report connects receiving mercy with showing mercy to other people. Read it alongside the collection’s surrounding material about compassion.
Included in Sahih Muslim. Practical application still requires judgment about justice and protection.
Read the attributed report ↗Sahih Muslim 1218a
The Farewell Pilgrimage
A long account describes pilgrimage practice and reported teaching about communal and personal obligations. It is one source behind modern Farewell Sermon compilations.
Included in Sahih Muslim. Modern composite sermons are not one verbatim transcript from this report.
Read the attributed report ↗Sahih Muslim 2699a
Learning and responsibility
A report joins relieving hardship, seeking knowledge and gathering to study. Knowledge appears within a broader account of service and accountability.
Included in Sahih Muslim. Its authority is a traditional evaluation, distinct from historical verification of each detail.
Read the attributed report ↗Sahih al-Bukhari 3559
Character and conduct
This report associates excellence with good character and describes Muhammad as avoiding indecent speech.
Included in al-Bukhari’s Sahih. A reported moral description is not independent evidence for every episode in a biography.
Read the attributed report ↗Numbering follows the linked edition and can differ elsewhere. A collection’s traditional status is distinct from a historian’s judgment about a particular report. Independent specialist review is pending.
Reports used elsewhere in the inquiry
Use this source index to find the reports cited in the answers and essays. The linked edition supplies the full wording and book references. Their inclusion in these Sunni Sahih collections describes a traditional classification, not a cross-tradition or independent historical verdict.
- Sahih al-Bukhari 1Cited in: Did Muhammad come to show people how to live, and what does following him involve?; What is the message in one sentence, and what difference does it make on a Tuesday?
- Sahih al-Bukhari 1036Cited in: Hadith predictions: conquests and the Hour
- Sahih al-Bukhari 3: the beginning of revelationCited in: Why the sources differ
- Sahih al-Bukhari 3176Cited in: Hadith predictions: conquests and the Hour
- Sahih al-Bukhari 3448Cited in: What does Islam say about Jesus?
- Sahih al-Bukhari 3535Cited in: Did Muhammad claim to be the final prophet, and what does “seal of the prophets” mean?
- Sahih al-Bukhari 4922: the first surah questionCited in: Why the sources differ
- Sahih al-Bukhari 4971Cited in: Qur’anic predictions and later events
- Sahih al-Bukhari 4986: a traditional collection reportCited in: What do the earliest sources say?; What is the Qur’an, and how do Muslims understand it came to be?
- Sahih al-Bukhari 4987Cited in: What is the Qur’an, and how do Muslims understand it came to be?; Why the sources differ
- Sahih al-Bukhari 5134: Aisha’s marriageCited in: Why the sources differ
- Sahih al-Bukhari 6014Cited in: The Good Samaritan’s cousins: righteousness and the neighbour
- Sahih Muslim 1218a: pilgrimage reportCited in: What happened at the end?; What did Muhammad actually ask of people?
- Sahih Muslim 2408a: report concerning the Prophet’s householdCited in: What happened at the end?
- Sahih Muslim 2900Cited in: Hadith predictions: conquests and the Hour
- Sahih Muslim 8aCited in: Did Muhammad come to show people how to live, and what does following him involve?; Why is there suffering, and what does Islam say about God’s will?; What is the message in one sentence, and what difference does it make on a Tuesday?; Hadith predictions: conquests and the Hour