Sunan An-Nasai has the fewest weak hadeeth after the two Sahih collections. This Sunan is one of the six is al-Mujtaba or As-Sunan As-Sughara, which is a synopsis of a large collection of hadeeth which he considered to be fairly reliable. In the smaller collection, only those hadeeth which he considered to be reliable have been included.
It was compiled by the great scholar of hadeeth, Abu Abdur-Rahman Ahmad bin Shu’aib bin Bahr An-Nasai (Nasa’ of Khurasan) (214-303 AH). Imam An-Nasai, like other great scholars of hadeeth, traveled to Baghdad, Ash-Sham, Egypt, Mecca, and many other cities to seek knowledge. He received the praises of many scholars including Ad-Daraqutni who said about “He is given preference over all others who are mentioned with this knowledge from the people of his time.”
Some scholars consider his compilation to have the least number of defective or weak narrations among the four Sunan. This great book of his contains 5,761 hadeeth, making it as an invaluable addition to anyone’s library.