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Muqaddimah (Usool e Hadith) Terminologies PDF
Muqaddimah (Usool e Hadith) Terminologies PDF
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3 Abdullah bin Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib , son of the uncle of the
Prophet . He was born at Mecca and grew up during the life time
of the Prophet . He was present with Hazrat Ali during the
battles of Jamal and Siffīn. There are 1660 ahādīth narrated by him
present in Sahihayn and other books.
4 There two definitions of athar. 1) It is same as hadith,as marfū’,
maqtū and mawqūf ahadīth are all narrated the same way. 2) It is
specific to speech, actions and tacit approval of companions and
tabayīn. A muhaddith is also called ‘athari’.
5 Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Salāmah Abu Jā’far Tahāwi. He was
initially Shaf’ī and later became Hanafi. He is one of the most erudite
scholars of Ahnāf. He authored ‘Saharh M’āni al-āthār’, ‘Ahkām ul-
Qurān’, al-‘Mukhtasar fil Fiqh’ etc.
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He was a muhaddith of high calibre and has written many books which
includes ‘al-Mu’ājim us-Salāsah’ al-Kabīr, al-Awsat & as-Saghīr.
8 There are three views regarding khabar and hadīth 1) both have same
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or more narrators from the start of sanad, and the hadīth is attributed
to the narrators who come after them. Allāmah Ibn Hajar writes in
‘Nuzhat un-Nazar’: Among the forms of mu’allaq ahadīth are: (a)
Where the entire isnād is omitted, so it says for example: “The
Messenger of Allah said…” (b)Where the entire isnād is omitted and
only the name of the Sahābi or the names of the Sahābi and Tāba’ī are
left. (c)Where the name of the one who narrated it is omitted and it is
attributed to someone who came above him (in the isnād).
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15The doctrine which the majority of the hadīth experts and critics has
settled on is that a loose hadīth may not be cited as a proof and is
judged to be weak. Imām Muslim writes in his introduction to sahīh,
“The loose hadīth does not constitute a proof according to the
principles of my doctrine and that of those knowledgeable about
reports.
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(i.e. it is not one type, but it includes all the types of inqit’ā)
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his teacher but without mentioning the way he received it from him.
The transmitter doesn’t mention if he heard it from his teacher, or his
teacher narrated to him, or his teacher reported to him.
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• Sahīh (sound)
• Hasan (fair)
• Da’īf (weak)
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The causes of t’ān which are related to dhabt are also five.
• Excessive heedlessness
• Frequent mistakes
• Opposing reliable transmitter
• Delusion
• Chronically forgetfulness
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They say: sahīh shādhdh and sahīh gair shādhdh. Thus anomaly
in this meaning also doesn’t negate the soundness of the
hadīth like the singular report. That which is mentioned in
the context of t’ān is opposing the reliable narrators.
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When they didn’t narrate those sahīh ahādīth which they had
and those which are sahīh according to their conditions in
their books, then why would they narrate ahādīth which are
sahīh according to others?
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them. He said: “Bukhāri and Muslim did not rule that there no
sahīh hadīth other than those mentioned in these two books”. He
also said: “There appeared this group of innovators in our times who
unleashed their tongues attacking the scholars of religion, saying that
the number of ahādīth with you is not more than ten thousand. They
mentioned regarding Bukhāri that he said: I memorized one hundred
thousand sahīh ahādīth and two hundred thousand other than sahīh
ahādīth”.Allah knows best.
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and stronger than Hākim and better and more subtle in asānīd and
mutūn”.
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Section 10
1. Sahīhul Bukhāri
2. Sahīh Muslim
3. Jāmi by at-Tirmidhi
4. as-Sunan by Abū Dāwūd
5. an-Nasāī
6. Sunan of Ibn Mājah
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