The Encyclopaedia of Hadith

THESAURUS ISLAMICUS FOUNDATION

Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation (2001) 19 Volumes and a CD-ROM. Hardcover, two colours (black and red) in A4 (21cm x 29.7cm), with gold and blind embossed cover. More information.

Hardback Price (incl. CD-ROM and IHSANetwork.org membership): $ 1250,00 

Paperback Price (incl. CD-ROM and IHSANetwork.org membership): $350.00

Standalone Hadith Database CD-ROM Price: $80.00

(Special  Introductory Prices for Individuals and Academic institutions)

This first collection of hadith, consisting of 19 volumes, includes the Seven Great collections of Hadith in Arabic (Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abi Daud, Jami' al-Tirmidhi, Sunan al-Nasa'i, Sunan Ibn Maja and the Muwatta' Malik ). In addition the collection includes a reprint of the one hundred year old Sultaniyya edition of Sahih al-Bukhari, in three volumes published by Bulaq Press with its valuable marginal commentary. Also included within this first collection is a two volume analytical indices to all the printed texts, entitled Maknaz al-Mustarshidin which includes amongst its references (tying all the source books together) the relevant hadith number in al-Mizzi's Tuhfat al-Ashraf.

 

1a. Sahih al-Bukhari vol. I. 2000. 552 p. 
    Sahih al-Bukhari vol. II. 2000. 528 p. 
    Sahih al-Bukhari vol. III. 2000. 568 p. 
1b. Al-Sultaniyya vol. I. 2000. 592 p. 
    Al-Sultaniyya vol. II. 2000. 608 p. 
    Al-Sultaniyya vol. III. 2000. 544 p.

2. Sahih Muslim vol. I. 2000. 656 p. 
    Sahih Muslim vol. II. 2000.680 p. 
3. Sunan Abi Daud vol. I. 2000. 448 p. 
    Sunan Abi Daud vol. II. 2000. 500 p. 
4. Jami´ al-Tirmidhi vol. I. 2000. 520 p. 
    Jami´ al-Tirmidhi vol. II. 2000. 564 p. 
5. Sunan al Nasa´i vol. I. 2000. 448 p. 
    Sunan al-Nasa´i vol. II. 2000. 536 p.
6. Sunan Ibn Maja. 2000. 688 p. 
7. Muwatta Malik. 2000. 432 p. 

8. Al-Maknaz vol. I. 2000. 576 p. 
    Al-Maknaz vol. II. 2000. 680 p. 

9. The Hadith Database. CD-ROM plus Introduction. 2000. 144 p.

Accompanying the printed work the encyclopaedia includes a revolutionary CD-ROM database which contains all the hadith collections provided in printed form, which may be accessed by 21 different kinds of searches of varying degrees of complexity.

A screenshot from the CD-ROM Hadith database
This publication is the fruit of 15 years of editing, revision and research by a team of religious scholars who have assembled the most comprehensive collection of hadith manuscripts from all over the world as well as all previously published editions. Painstakingly compared and revised with every page being approved by the Islamic Research Academy of al-Azhar, the Hadith Encyclopaedia revives the best traditions of Islamic scholarship. At the same time, one of the Foundation’s projects has been the development of the world’s finest Arabic typeface with the assistance of leading experts in Arabic calligraphy. This is based on the font used for the 1932 King Fu'ad Edition of the Qur'an, generally acclaimed as the summit of Arabic typography, in a yet more elaborated digital form.
This is just the beginning of an ongoing project (four new collections will be published in the new year, and so on) that has brought together Egyptian and Azhar scholars, Saudi, and Western Muslim intellectuals to produce a work of exquisite beauty and profound importance for Islam and the Muslim world.

Further information regarding the Sunna Project of the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation:

 

A Synopsis

From the earliest days of Islam the Muslim has sought to have at his disposal everything known from, about, and surrounding the Prophet . Because of the vastness of the hadith literature, however, an inexhaustibly rich body of information covering subjects as diverse as law, language, doctrine, prayer and language, that desire has never been fulfilled.  

It has been the vocation of great scholars and their disciples in past ages to bring together as much of this literature as possible. In recent times, however, scholars of this type have become rare. Nonetheless, we now have, technically, the possibility of bringing this enormous body of literature together from all the sources, all the libraries, and all the printed books. It is now possible to organise it digitally and to access any part of it with extraodinary rapidity. Thanks to this timely breakthrough a new tool is available for the continuous renewal of the Islamic response to the world, a response which changes through the ages, but which is based always on two sources, the Qur’an and the Sunna. The Qur’an, being relatively small, presents no real problems of access, but the Sunna, which is vast and scattered, poses a much greater problem. The Hadith Database allows the researcher access to this authoritative source. The intention of the Foundation is to create one vast library which contains everything that remains on earth that concerns the Prophet .

 

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Sahih al-Bukhari (552k - 5 pages)

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Hadith indices (823k - 7 pages)

The Sunna Project

Although the use of computer technology opens new vistas for work in hadith studies, the field continues to suffer a dearth of serious projects directed towards academic rather than commercial purposes. To remedy this, the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, a non-profit charitable foundation registered in the Duchy of Liechtenstein, was founded in 1989 at the instigation of the late Shaykh al-Hussayni Hashim, vice-rector of Al-Azhar in Cairo. With centres in Egypt and the United Kingdom, and a fellowship of affiliated scholars and computer specialists in many other countries, the Foundation leads the world in serving the hadith literature of Islam. It seeks to raise hadith publishing, in both traditionally printed and electronic form, to the highest standards of excellence, enabling this literature to serve as a model for the editing and processing of other substantial bodies of Islamic and world literature.

Conclusion

The Foundation’s work has met with acclaim and admiration from specialists in the hadith disciplines around the world. This long-overdue scholarly production opens new possibilities for research into early Islamic history, into Arabic literature, and into the complex disciplines of Islamic doctrine, law, and spirituality. Hardly any area of Islamic studies will find that its research methods and perspectives are not substantially refined and reshaped by the availability of the hadith literature in this form.

For more detailed information about the Hadith Encyclopaedia go to Further Information.

The Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation has also produced a Holy Qur'an

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