The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (915 page)

BOOK: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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(d. 915), Ibn M
ja (d. 886), and
Ab
D
w
d
(d. 888). Together these form the ‘six books’ of reference.
The
Sh
‘a
have their own collections of
ad
th, which they accuse the
Sunnis
of having deliberately ignored or concealed, which extol the virtues of
‘Al
b. Ab
lib
and the Twelve
Im
ms
. The earliest authoritative collection is
Al-k
f
f
‘Ilm al-D
n

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