However, if one delves into the details of these books, this thought evaporates. The meaning of 50 books is thousands of pages and countless Ahadith. Sahih al-Bukhari alone spans 1,823 pages and contains 7,563 Ahadith. Sahih Muslim comprises of 1,157 pages and 3,033 Ahadith.  Sunan Abi Dawud consists of 820 pages and 5,273 Ahadith.  Sunan al-Tirmidhi includes 884 pages and 3,958 Ahadith.  Sunan al-Nasai covers 905 pages and 5,769 Ahadith, and Sunan ibn Majah encompasses 705 pages and 4,341 Ahadith.     

In this way, when only 20 of these 50 collections of Ahadith were considered in terms of volumes, pages and Ahadith, the total was found to be 49 volumes, 29,903 pages and 134,811 Ahadith.

This is the detail concerning just 20 Ahadith collections. How many were under the study of A’la Hazrat رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه ? Over 50. Consider if the details concerning all these books was observed, how many pages would they encompass? How many hundreds of thousands of Ahadith were included in the study and teaching of A’la Hazrat  رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه ?

Keep this Madani pearl in mind here, that as A’la Hazrat رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه was answering a question, he replied in brief, “Over 50 books.” What was the intended meaning of ‘Over 50’? 55, 60, 70 books? How many over 50? Research was conducted on this. Some of the noble scholarly devotees of A’la Hazrat رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه laboured for 8 years. 350 from amongst the books written by A’la Hazrat رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه were gathered and read. The Ahadith cited by A’la Hazrat رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه in them were separated, and they came to 10,000. Then these Ahadith were traced back to their original sources and it was found that the Ahadith, which A’la Hazrat رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه had cited in just these 350 books, were taken from 400 books of Ahadith. Meaning, from this research, it is established that 400 Hadith books were under A’la Hazrat’s reading.  He would look at them, read Ahadith from them and cite them when writing.