First: After narrating the hadith of the chapter, he mentions the names of the Companions from whom hadiths on that topic have been reported.

Second: In most instances, he mentions the differences of the jurists and their opinions on jurisprudential issues, and frequently refers to their evidences, and mentions the conflicting hadiths on the matter. This is one of the highest and most important objectives, for it is the true purpose of the science of hadith: distinguishing the authentic from the weak for the sake of inference and argumentation, then for following and acting upon it.

Third: Al-Tirmidhi devotes full attention in his book to the critical examination of hadiths, mentioning their degree of authenticity or weakness, and elaborates on the discussion of defects and narrators in a thorough manner. For this reason, his book became as if it were a practical application of the rules of the science of hadith, particularly the science of defects, and it became the most beneficial book for the scholar and the student, and for the one seeking benefit and the researcher in the sciences of hadith.

The author of "Kashf al-Niqab" (1) said: It behooves us to mention a summary of what our teacher, the late scholar [meaning the hadith scholar Muhammad Yusuf al-Binnori], wrote in an article published in the journal of the Arab Scientific Academy in Damascus (32-308), and he said in substance: Every book of the six canonical collections has a distinctive merit not found in others, and by it the distinction is established. An absolute merit for every book from every aspect is hardly to be found. The following is a mention of al-Tirmidhi's characteristics in his book:

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(1) He is Dr. Muhammad Habib Allah Mukhtar, 1/120.