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“Al-Kutub al-Sitta” is an expression that is composed of the word ‘kutub’, meaning ‘books’ and ‘sitta’ which means ‘six’; collectively it means -literally- the “six books”.

In the terminology of Islamic sciences, al-Kutub al-Sitta is the name given to the six hadith (sayings of the Prophet) books that contain collections of the most authentic (reliable) hadiths; these constitute the content of the prophetic sunnah (practices of the Prophet), one of the two most important sources of the Islamic religion (the other being the Quran).