Shu'ab al-Iman

Shuab ul Iman, (Arabic: شعب الايمان), is a multi-volume Hadith book compiled by Imam al-Bayhaqi (384 AH – 458 AH).

[1] The author provides an exhaustive textual commentary relating to foundations of faith and its branches.

According to Al-Maktaba Al-Shamela it contains almost eleven thousands (11000) Hadiths (narrations).

[3] This book describes branches of faith (Shuab ul Iman) and Imam basically has chosen the name of the book according to a Hadith of Mohammad in which he mentioned that there are more than seventy (70) branches of faith.

According to the book, Iman (faith) has three major branches as follows.