Sunni Books Of Hadiths And Shia Books Of Hadiths
My related question is : Is Sunnah of Prophet common among Shia and Sunni sects ? If someone rejects some authentic hadith which is considered part of Sunnah , does he remain a Muslim ?
What is the basis of determining the authenticity of individual hadith ?
Bukhari and Muslim are better as far as their chains of narrators are concerned.
Read “Muqadma” of Sahi Muslim others
When word Sahih is used by Bukhari for example, it doesn’t mean Sahih as in 100% authentic, it is a technical term of ilm-e-Hadith which means that the chains of narrators have no apparent flaws in them and it falls within logical and overall framework of religion as per understanding of Bukhari. However, just like Bukhari, every scholar while understanding any narration, must see if that Hadith is logically acceptable, whether it is in concordance with the primary sources of religion namely Quran and Sunnah. Keeping in mind these preconditions of understanding Hadith, many books were written on principles of understanding Hadith, (Khatib Baghdadi’s Kifaya is the most prominent in this category). These books lay down detailed principles of understanding Hadith. Ghamidi Sahab has laid down those principles here as well: Discussion 1042 *(Please note that for the ease of understanding, I have tried to explain this in the most simplest way possible. Neither is this a very scholarly approach nor is this a replacement for a proper book on the subject) .