What is your method regarding the indexes you have compiled for the hadiths in your books?

The questioner : All right, Shaykh, regarding the indexes in your books; for example, when the hadith of the Messenger, which is the speech of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), is known by its first letter, but sometimes the hadith begins with the speech of a Companion, such as "we went out" or something similar. When we search for it, you may have noticed that sometimes we find it and sometimes we do not; what is the arrangement, I mean?

The Shaykh : First: I am not the one who compiled these indexes, nor the annotations that do not pertain to explaining the grade of the hadith and its tracing to sources.
Second: The rule in this matter is that any hadith that begins with the speech of a Companion, and within the context of this hadith there is speech from the Messenger (peace be upon him), his speech is taken as the beginning and placed in its appropriate letter in the index, and the speech of the Companion is not considered at that time; such as his saying: "we went out" or "we came" or the like.
But in another case, when the hadith does not contain a sentence from the speech of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family); it is necessary for me to take a piece from it that indicates it, so we then take the beginning of the hadith, which is from the speech of the Companion, so "we went out" comes in the chapter of the letter Kha, in the letter Kha, and "we came to the Messenger of Allah" comes in the letter Alif, and so on, whereas "the Messenger of Allah did such and such," everything comes in its chapter when there is no sentence from the speech of the Messenger (peace be upon him) in the hadith, but if there is a sentence, it is taken and placed in its appropriate letter.