Author: Muhammad Zubayr Siddiqi
Publisher: Goodword books
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 223
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187570164
Description
This book is an introduction to major Hadith works and their compilers. It has been composed to present to the Muslim as well as non-Muslim the viewpoint of orthodox Islam with regard to Hadith Literature, its origin and development and its criticism by the Muslim doctors.
In English, only one book on the subject has been published 'The Traditions of Islam' by Alfred Guillaume.. But it does not represent the Muslim point of view. In other European languages, several highly learned critical works on Hadith have been published. None of them represents orthodox Islamic view.
In composing it, not only many of the important works of the modern European Orientalists have been utilized but also a large part of the original Arabic sources some of which have not hither to been fully utilized. The reader, therefore may find in this work some important material which may not be available in any of the European works on the subject.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
HADITH...
The Significance of Hadith
Hadith and Sunnah..
Hadith - a subject of keen interest..
The writing of Ahadith..
The collection of Ahadith..
The Muwatta..
The legal and historical traditions..
Classification of books of Hadith..
CHAPTER 2
Hadith and the Companions..
Significance of the term Sahabi..
The number of the Companions..
The Companions who related traditions..
The number of traditions related by them
The problem of the prohibition and permissibility of Kitabat (of Hadith)..
CHAPTER 3
Hadith after the death of the Companions..
The Followers and their classification
The traditionists' devotion to Hadith..
Their number..
Forgery in Hadith, its causes and various classes of forgers
The honest and critical traditionists of various periods..
The criticism of the reporters..
Travels in quest of knowledge (traditions)..
CHAPTER 4
Hadith Literature..
The Beginnings..
Many of the Musnads ascribed to early authors were compiled long after them..
The Musnad of Abu Da'ud al-Talyalisi and his life..
The Musnad of Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal and his life..
The Musannaf Works..
The Sahih of al-Bukhari and his life
Sahih of Muslim and his life
CHAPTER 5
Hadith Literature -Contd..
The Sunan works..
The Sunan of Abu Da'ud al-Sijistani and his life..
The Jami' of al-Tirmidhi and his life..
The Sunan of al-Nasa'i and his life..
The Sunan of al-Darimi and his life..
The Sunan of Ibn Maja and his life..
The Sunan of al-Daraqutni and his life..
The Sunan of al-Bayhaqi and his life
The Sunan of Sa'id b.Mansur and his life
The Sunan of Abu Muslim al-Kashshi and his life..
The Mujam Works, the Mujams of al-Tabarani and his life..
The importance of the various works in Hadith Literature
CHAPTER 6
Some of the Special Features of the Hadith Literature
Forgery in hadith and its beginning..
The System of Isnad (Chain of Transmitters)..
The problem of its origin, its use by the jews, the remarks of Ibn Hazm, its use by the Indians, its earliest application to Hadith, its development by the Muslims, its application to the Arabic MSS. The part played by women in the transmission and cultivation of Hadith and Hadith literature..
The Important women traditionists of the various periods
The integrity and independence of the traditionists..
The exactitude of the traditionist, [the preliminaries and methods of learning, teaching and writing Hadith]..
CHAPTER 7
The Sciences of Tradition..
Asma' al-Rijal [Chronology, Biography and Criticism of the Narrators of Hadith]..
Ibn Sa'd, his Tabaqat and its importance..
Kitab al-Ta'rikh of al-Bukhari
Usd al-Ghaba..
The Isaba of Ibn Hajar and his life
Al-Khatib and his Ta'rikh-u-Baghdad..
Ibn al-Asakir and his History of Damascus..
CHAPTER 8
The Science of Tradition-Contd..
Criticism of reporters of an event in the Qur'an, by the Prophet, the Companions and their successors. Development of the science of 'formal' criticism..
Classifications of Ahadith..
The legal importance of traditions..
'Material' criticism of the texts of traditions and its principles..
Examples of criticism of the text..