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History Of Compilation Of The Sunnah | Were Hadiths Compiled During the Life of the Prophet? | Omar Abdl Haleem

Compilation During the Lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad THERE IS A common misconception that only later on did it occur to the first generation of Muslims to write down the Sunnah. Thus, most people think that the official gathering and writing…

History Of Compilation Of The Sunnah | Sahih Muslim: A Brief Look At The Author And The Work (1) | Omar Abdl-Haleem

The Compiler THE COMPILER OF this Hadith collection is Imâm Abû Al-Ḥusayn Muslim ibn Al-Ḥajjâj ibn Muslim—or “Muslim” for short. There is dispute about the year of his birth, but it is almost certainly between 200 and 206h, or 815 and 821ce. There…

Mustalah Al-Hadith | Lesson 7 | Al-Hadith Al-Mudallas (The Hadith with Hidden Discontinuity)

IN PAST ARTICLES, we discussed the obvious breaks in the chain of narrations and their effects on the ḥadîth. Now we turn to the kinds of breaks in the chain that are hidden and can only be discovered after scrutiny and comparison.…

Mustalah Al-Hadith | Lesson 5 | Al-Hadith Al-Mu‘an‘an (A Hadith that has Links in its Chain Connected by the Junction Connector: ‘an)

ḤADÎTH NARRATIONS ARE considered mardûd (rejected) based on four discrepancies: Discrepancy in the continuity of the chain of narrators Discrepancy with one or more of the narrators Discrepancy in the chain of narrators Discrepancy in the Text One of the issues of continuity…

The Pagan Deities Al-Lat and Al-‘Uzza | An Explanation of Hadiths 4859 & 4860 of Sahih Al-Bukhari

The Heading Have you not seen Al-Lât and Al-ʿUzza… [Sûrat Al-Najm, 53:19] The Human Chain of Narration for Hadith 4859 Bukhâri narrates: Muslim ibn Ibrâhîm told us that Abû Al-Ash-hab told us that Abû’l–Jawzâ’ told us that On the authority of…

The Fast of the Prophet

THE NINTH MONTH on the Islamic calendar—twenty-nine or thirty days of community fasting (Ṣawm), from crescent to crescent, Ramadan—is, among other things, a celebration of Al-Ra ḥmân’s renewal of guidance to mankind. Our Ramadan and Its Associations with Revelation One of the great…

The Hadith of Heraclius | Part 1 | Abu Sufyan Enters the Roman Court

The Narrators (1) Abû’l-Yamân Al-Ḥakam ibn Nâfiʿnarrated to us, saying: (2) Shuʿayb informed us on the authority of (3) Al-Zuhr who said: (4) ʿUbaydallah ibn ʿAbdallah ibn ʿUtâbah ibn Masʿûd informed me that (5) ʿAbdallah ibn ʿAbbâs informed him that (6) Abû…

Mustalah Al-Hadith | Lesson 4 | The Sahih Hadith

IN ORDER TO appreciate the underpinnings of the Islamic sources (the Ḥadîth, in addition to the Quran), we must have some acquaintance with the Islamic Science of Ḥadîth (‘science’= organized observational and analytical technical apparatus for systematic study), which was developed in the early centuries of Islam…

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Mustalah Al-Hadith | Lesson 3 | Accepted Ahad Narrations Accompanied by Additional Evidence

WHAT A KIND of additional collaborative evidence makes a solitary-transmitted (âhâd) ḥadîth reliable? What determines whether such a ḥadîth is applicable for juristic determinations? As mentioned in previous Mus ṭala ḥ Al- ḥadîth (specialized terminology of prophetic reports) articles, a ḥadîth is either…

Allowance for Movement in Salâh: An Explanation Based on Ibn Hajar Al-ʿAsqalâni’s Fath Al-Bâri

AL-AZRAQ IBN QAYS said: “We were in Al-A ḥwâz [a district near Al-Ba ṣra, between present day ʿIrâq and Iran] fighting the Harûrîyyah [the Khawârij, who fought against ʿAlî. They were called Harûriyyah because their initial base was in Ḥarûrâ’, a now…