Knowledge, like the widespread circulation of the Sunan of Abu Dawud, the Sunan of al-Nasa'i, the Sunan of Ibn Majah, and the Sunan of al-Darimi.

4. "Al-Jami' al-Sahih" — so named by Abu 'Abd Allah al-Hakim and Abu Bakr al-Barqani(1).

5. "Al-Sahih" — so named by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Ibn al-Athir al-Mubarak ibn Muhammad, Ibn al-Nadim, author of "Al-Fihrist," Ibn al-Abbar al-Qudai, al-Sam'ani, and Tash Kubri Zadah. In this designation there is a degree of looseness and a kind of carelessness, for there is no explicit statement from Imam al-Tirmidhi that he committed himself therein to authenticity. Rather, it contains not a few weak hadiths, whose weakness he himself pointed out.

Some have justified this designation by noting that what it contains of authentic (sahih) and good (hasan) hadiths, and their combined total, is more than the weak, so the intended meaning of this designation is the predominant portion of what it contains.

Ibn Kathir said: Al-Hakim Abu 'Abd Allah and al-Khatib al-Baghdadi used to call the book of al-Tirmidhi "Al-Jami' al-Sahih," and this is carelessness on their part, for it contains many objectionable (munkar) hadiths!(2)

Al-Suyuti said: And whoever applies to them the designation "sahih," such as al-Silafi's statement regarding the five books — "The scholars of the East and the West have agreed upon their authenticity" —

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(1) Al-Khatib transmitted this from al-Barqani in his "Tarikh" 5/69.
(2) "Al-Ba'ith al-Hathith" pp. 12-13.