As-Sunan al-Kubra

Not to be confused with Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi).

As-Sunan al-Kubra, (Arabic: سنن الكبرى), is a hadith book collected by Imam Al-Nasa'i (214 – 303 AH),^[1][2][3] not to be confused with the same titled book by Imam Al-Bayhaqi.

As-Sunan al-Kubra

Author	Al-Nasa'i
Original title	السنن الكبرى
Language	Arabic
Genre	Hadith collection

Description

As-Sunan al-Kubra is the larger collection of the Sunan al-Nasa'i, having almost twelve thousand (12000) hadiths compared to the almost six thousand (6000) hadiths in the summarised version.^[4] The shorter collection is considered the next most authentic book of hadith (narrations of Muhammad) after the Sahihain (Sahih al-Bukhari & Sahih Muslim) within the six books, by most scholars of hadith.^[1][5]

Commentaries

Among those who have written commentaries on this hadith collection are:

• Kitab al-Sunan al-Kubra al-Nasa'i 12 Volumes (كِتَابُ السُّنَن الكُبْرَى النَّسَائي) Commentary by Shaykh Shuaib Al Arna'ut & Shaykh al-Turki: Published: al-Risalah al-'Alamiyyah | Damascus/Beirut, Syria/Lebanon in 2011^[6]

See also

• List of Sunni books
• Kutub al-Sittah
  • Sahih Bukhari
  • Sahih Muslim
  • Jami al-Tirmidhi
  • Sunan Abu Dawood
  • Either: Sunan ibn Majah, or Muwatta Malik