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[Brown] has produced an ambitious study that will itself become a canon for the study of the canonization of the Saḥīḥayn and so like them it is worthy of much attention and analysis.
Herbert Berg

This is an unusual book in many ways, all of them good. Its scope is strikingly broad, it is in conversation with the latest scholarship both in the field of specialization and also in the wider world of theory, and it is well-written. While one may disagree with some of Brown's specific and general conclusions, this book deserves to be read for many years to come.
Jonathan E. Brockopp, Islamic Law and Society, 2010

"This study abandons the conventional genre to which the Orientalists, who have explored the prophetic tradition, have accustomed us: it really brings something new. [...] this book deserves to be consulted for a good number of years to come."
Michel Lagarde in Islamochristiana 37 (2011), p.306-307.

Drawing on canon studies, this book investigates the origins, development and functions of the core of the Sunni ?adith canon, the 'Authentic' ?adith collections of al-Bukhari and Muslim, from the time of their authors to the modern period.