Description
An Introduction to the Sciences of the Hadith
Book Specifications
| Attribute | Details |
|---|---|
| Title | An Introduction to the Sciences of the Hadith |
| Format | [A5] Paperback |
| Type | Book |
| Publication Date | 2016 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Publisher | Garnet Publishing Limited |
| Author | Ibn al-Salah al-Shahrazuri |
| Translator | Dr Eerik Dickinson |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 9781859641583 |
| Length (mm) | 240 |
| Width (mm) | 170 |
| Depth (mm) | 23 |
| Weight (g) | 667 |
| Numbered Pages | 356 |
| Total Pages | 384 |
| Added to our catalogue on | 23rd March 2023 |
*** New to our catalogue – On 23rd March 2023 ***
Book Description
An Introduction To The Science of the Hadith
After the Qur’an itself, the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad form the most important foundation of Islamic thought. The hadith were accounts – usually brief – of the words and actions of the Prophet. As such, they were subjected to intense scrutiny by generations of Muslim scholars.
Better know as the Muqaddima, Ibn al-Salah (1181-1245) composed this work while serving as the head of the Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiya in Damascus, one of the most prestigious institutions for the study of hadith in the Islamic world. He provides a complete overview of the science devoted to the study of the words and actions of the Prophet Muhammad, and also a guide to the terminology and techniques of the scholars of hadith as it summarizes most of the previous work on the subject and forms the basis of almost all later activity in the field.
The book enjoyed immense popularity and influenced most subsequent writing on the subject.
The translator Erik Dickinson has degrees from the universities of Michigan and Yale. He has taught Arabic and Islam at Yale and Hunter College in New York City. In addition to publishing articles on hadith and the Arabic biographical tradition in learned journals, he has contributed to the Encyclopedia of Islam, the Encyclopedia of the Qur’an and Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. His first book The Development of Early Sunnite Hadith Criticism appeared in 2001.
The reviewer Muneer Fareed is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, in the Department of Near Eastern and Asian Studies, at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- About this Series
- Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization: Board of Trustees
- Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization: Board
- Translator’s Introduction
- Author’s Introduction
- Category 1 Sound Hadith
- Category 2 Fair Hadith
- Category 3 Weak Hadith
- Category 4 Supported Hadith
- Category 5 Uninterrupted Hadith
- Category 6 Raised Hadith
- Category 7 Halted Hadith
- Category 8 Cut-off Hadith
- Category 9 Loose Hadith
- Category 10 Interrupted Hadith
- Category 11 Problematic Hadith
- Category 12 Misrepresentation and the Treatment of Misrepresented Hadith
- Category 13 Anomalous Hadith
- Category 14 Unfamiliar Hadith
- Category 15 Analysis, Parallelisms and Attestations
- Category 16 Additions of Reliable Transmitters and the Treatment of Them
- Category 17 Isolated Hadith
- Category 18 Defective Hadith
- Category 19 Disrupted Hadith
- Category 20 Material Interpolated into Hadith
- Category 21 Forged Hadith
- Category 22 Mixed-up Hadith
- Category 23 The Characteristic of Those Whose Transmission is Accepted and Those Whose Transmission is Rejected, and the allied subjects of impugning and discrediting, and certifying and accrediting
- Category 24 The Methods of Hearing and Receiving Hadith, and the Manner of Registering These
- Category 25 On the Writing of Hadith and the Means of Fixing and Recording Texts
- Category 26 On the Manner of Relating Hadith and the Stipulations Regarding the Conveyance of Them, and Related Matters
- Category 27 Guidelines for the Transmitter of Hadith
- Category 28 Guidelines for the Student of Hadith
- Category 29 Elevated and Low Isnads
- Category 30 Famous Hadith
- Category 31 Rare and Scarce Hadith
- Category 32 Rare Words in the Hadith
- Category 33 Enchained Hadith
- Category 34 Abrogating and Abrogated Hadith
- Category 35 Misreadings in the Isnads and Texts of Hadith
- Category 36 Contradictory Hadith
- Category 37 Additions to Cohesive Isnäds
- Category 38 Hadith with Hidden Looseness
- Category 39 The Companions
- Category 40 The Followers
- Category 41 Older People Transmitting Hadith from Younger Ones
- Category 42 Symmetrical Transmissions, and Other Instances of Peers Transmitting from One Another
- Category 43 Brothers and Sisters among Scholars and Transmitters
- Category 44 The transmission by Fathers from Their Sons
- Category 45 The transmission by Sons from Their Fathers
- Category 46 Those from Whom Two Transmitters, One Early and One Late, both relate
- Category 47 Companions, Followers and Later Figures from Whom Only a Single Transmitter Related Hadith
- Category 48 Those Who are Referred to by Different Names or Varying Epithets
- Category 49 Unique Names, Nicknames and Paidonymics of the Companions, Transmitters of Hadith, and Other Scholars
- Category 50 Names and Paidonymics
- Category 51 The Paidonymics of Those Better Known under Their Name, rather than Their Paidonymic
- Category 52 Nicknames of Transmitters of Hadith and Other People Mentioned with the Transmitters
- Category 53 Homographic Names and Gentilics, and Related Matters
- Category 54 Homonymic Names, Gentilics, and So Forth
- Category 55 A Category Composed of the Two Previous Categories
- Category 56 Transmitters Resembling One Another in Name and Lineage Who Are Distinguished by the Relative Position of the Names of the Son and Father
- Category 57 Those Whose Lineage Refers to Someone Other than Their Father
- Category 58 Gentilics the Actual Significance of Which Differs from the Apparent One Which First Comes to Mind
- Category 59 Obscure References
- Category 60 The Dates of Transmitters
- Category 61 Reliable and Weak Transmitters of Hadith
- Category 62 Reliable Transmitters Who Confused Their Hadith at the
- End of Their Life
- Category 63 The Generations of Transmitters and Scholars
- Category 64 Transmitters of Hadith and Other Scholars Who Were Clients
- Category 65 The Residences and Lands of Transmitters
- Bibliography
- Index
