Language: Arabic. Main field: Muslim reports about the words and deeds of the Prophet (hadith). Subfield: Critical study of narrators of these reports (rijal). Shaykh Muhammad Awwamah spent a few decades editing the text of one of the basic work of narrator criticism by Dhahabi, "al-Kashif." These are a series of studies on the book and on related topics that grew out of this effort. One has to read it to believe it! The author's command over the field takes one back to the days of the early hadith critics!
Language: Arabic. Main field: Muslim reports about the words and deeds of the Prophet (hadith). Subfield: Critical study of narrators of these reports (rijal). Shaykh Muhammad Awwamah spent a few decades editing the text of one of the basic work of narrator criticism by Dhahabi, "al-Kashif." These are a series of studies on the book and on related topics that grew out of this effort. One has to read it to believe it! The author's command over the field takes one back to the days of the early hadith critics!
Language: Arabic. Main field: Muslim reports about the words and deeds of the Prophet (hadith). Subfield: Critical study of narrators of these reports (rijal). Shaykh Muhammad Awwamah spent a few decades editing the text of one of the basic work of narrator criticism by Dhahabi, "al-Kashif." These are a series of studies on the book and on related topics that grew out of this effort. One has to read it to believe it! The author's command over the field takes one back to the days of the early hadith critics!