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Mustalah Al-Hadith | Lesson 6 | Mu‘allaq and Mursal Ahadith (Missing Links in a Chain of Narrators)

HOW A ḤADÎTH is judged when links in the transmission chain are missing? What are the seven technical categories? Here the first two are discussed. Can any such a ḥadîth be taken as reliable? One of the possible defects in a ḥadîth narration…

Compilation of the Sunnah, Hadith Efforts of Tabi‘in and the Tabi‘i Al-Tabi‘in,

History of Compilation of the Sunnah | Efforts of the Tabi‘in and the Tabi‘i Al-Tabi‘in

THE ṬÂBIʿÎN ARE the generation after the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ. They received the Sunnah, or “way,” of the Prophet ﷺ from the Companions then transmitted this practical behavioral and conceptual knowledge from the Companions to the world. They are considered the best…

History Of Compilation Of The Sunnah | Sahih Muslim: A Brief Look At The Author And The Work (2) | Omar Abdl-Haleem

We conclude from Part 1 our look at the work of Imam Muslim (Imâm Abû Al-Ḥusayn Muslim ibn Al-Ḥajjâj ibn Muslim) in compiling authentic narrations of the Prophet ﷺ in his work of Hadith collection and authentication. We resume comparison of Muslim’s work…

Concept of Tawatur, Types of Hadith, Introduction to Science of Hadith, Mustalah al hadith book pdf,

Mustalah Al-Hadith | Lesson 1 | The Concept of Tawatur

Did He Really Say That? THE FIRST THING to be considered when any report reaches us is how it came to us. That is to say, what is the report’s means and history of transmission, and how reliable is its method of conveyance, reception,…

ٍSunnah Compilation | Al-Mustadrak Of Abu ‘Abdullah Al-Hakim Al-Naysaburi | Omar Abdl-Haleem

THE COMPILER OF the Hadith work, Al-Mustadrak, is Abû ʿAbdullâh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullâh Al-Ḥâkim. He committed to memory a great number of narrations and is an acknowledged critic of narrations, in addition to authoring a number of compilations. He was born in…

Mustalah: Takhrij -The Science of Citation and Extraction of Ahadith: A First look at Locating Hadith Based on their First Words (14) | Omar Abdl-Haleem

FEW MUSLIMS TODAY memorize a ḥadîth in quantity and fewer still according to their categories in the various ṣahîh collections. But there are those among that ever-rare breed of scholars, the mu ḥaddithîn, that still do. Accessing Ahadith There can be no…

Mustalah | Mukhtalif Al-Hadith: Al-Mu~laq wa Al-Muqayyad (Open and Restrictive Wordings in Apparently Contradictory Reports) (13) | Omar Abdl-Haleem

WE PREVIOUSLY HAVE looked at related ḥadîth reports that appear to contradict each other due to one conveying a general ruling and the other specifying when rulings do or do not apply (see Taʿâruḍ, Reconciling Contradictory Ḥadîths). We now turn to the…

Mustalah Al-Hadith (12) | Al-Ta‘arud: Criteria For Reconciling Contradictions Between Ahadith | Omar Abdl-Haleem

THE WORD ‘TAʿARUḌ’ in the Arabic language is derived from the trilateral root ʿayn • râ • ḍâd—or from ʿaraḍa—which means ‘parallel.’ The technical term ‘taʿâruḍ’ in ḥadîth studies also means ‘parallel,’ for just as two parallel lines never meet, similarly two…

Mustalah Al-Hadith (11) | Al-Hadith Al-Mudallas: The Ruling in Regards To Tadlis | Omar Abdl-Haleem

IN THE PREVIOUS installment on Mus ṭala ḥ Al-Ḥadîth (Al-Ḥadîth Al-Mudallas) we discussed the hidden break in the chain of narrations of a ḥadîth that scholars have termed ‘mudallas,’ meaning a hidden discontinuity in the chain of a ḥadîth report’s narrators. This…

Mustalah Al-Hadith (10) | Missing Links In A Chain of Narrators (Mu’allaq Ahadith and Mursal Ahadith) | Omar Abdl-Haleem

ONE OF THE possible defects in a narration is a break, or missing link, in the chain of narration. In Mus ṭala ḥ Al-Ḥadîth (Al-Ḥadîth Al-Muʿanʿan), we discuss which Arabic conjunctions convey an actual meeting between one narrator and the next. Having…