In
Sunni Islam, the
Hadith of
Gabriel (ḥadīth Jibrīl) is the single most important
hadith (report on the words and actions of the Islamic
prophet Muhammad), of the last prophet of
Islam. Its narrative contains the best summary of the core of Islam: Islām (إسلام), which is described with the "
Five Pillars of Islam,"
Īmān (إيمان), which is described with the "Six Articles of Faith,"
Iḥsān (إحسان), or "doing what is beautiful," and al-Sā’ah (الساعة), or
The Hour, which is not described, but signs are given. This hadith is found in both the
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and the
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim collections and is known to express the religion of Islam in a nutshell.
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Muslim scholars named this hadith "the Hadith of Gabriel" (ḥadīth Jibrīl) because the archangel Gabriel appears to Muhammad and those around him in a human form.