Under this division Ahadith are arranged with reference the  title / topic.For example Ahadith are arranged with the reference to prayer, Fasting , human rights under Musannaf.

    2. MUSNAD :
Under this division, Ahadith are arranged in order narrator.
For example Ahadith are arranged under different personalities , like Abu Bakr , Ayesha , Abu Huraira,

How to Check the Authenticity Of   Hadith:
Two criteria were adopted by the Compilers to check the authenticity of Hadith.

SANAD (CHAIN OF Narrators)
        ''Actions are judged bu intention''
UMAR (R.A) to A to B to C to D to E to IMAM Bukhari

      How to check Sanad:

• Each two successive narrators must have met.
• Each two successive narrators must have lived together.
• Each two successive narrators heard the often narrating Hadith.
• None of Narrators has ever lost his memory.
• None of Narrators has ever lied in his life.
• None of Narrators has ever fainted.
• Scholarly person has to be the narrator.
• Each of the narrators to be extremely pious.                                                                                   How to check the MATAN
• The words of Hadith should not explain something unnatural.
• The words of Hadith should not explain something super natural.
• No Hadith should praise any person or event unduly.
• No Hadith should be criticized.
• No Hadith should be against the teachings of the Holy Quran
• No Hadith should be against the already existing authentic Hadith.