COURSE OUTLINE

1.Course Title: Ulum Al-Hadith (Sciences of Hadith)

2. Course Code: RKQS 1312

3. Credit Value: 3

4. Course Synopsis:
This course aims at providing the students with major relevant topics in ḥadīth and sunnah
studies. The students will be exposed to the concept, structure, and functions of ḥadīth and
sunnah as constructed in Islamic intellectual tradition. Subsequently, the Islamic concept
of followship will be explicated followed by an exposition of Muslim scholarship in the
field of ḥadīth verification and evaluation. This course is appended with discussions on
selected thematic studies of ḥadīth and the utilisation of advanced technology in the field
to facilitate the integration between ḥadīth studies with various disciplines of human
knowledge.

5. SAF Elements:
The SAF elements incorporated in this course may be reflected as Sunnah studies in both
epistemic and practical dimensions provide the basis for Sejahtera Academic Framework
(SAF) inculcating the spirit of “read” (iqrāʾ). This course inculcates the essential value of
amānah (trustworthiness) and khalīfah (vicegerent) in the pursuit of identifying and
managing the sources of Islamic tradition and provides the essential knowledge on
scriptural paradigm such as the concept of maqāṣid al-sharīʿah.

6. Course Classification within the Curriculum: Core Course

7. Pre-requisite(s) (if any): NIL

8. Co-requisite(s) (if any): NIL

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9. Course Learning Outcomes:

Programme
No. Learning Outcomes (CLO) Outcomes
(PLO)

Apply principles, theories or models in ḥadīth studies to

1 respond to hypothetical situations or to flourish intellectual 1
discourse in the field.

Display the ability to report or present relevant contents or

2 3
ideas, individually or collectively.

Appreciate the crucial importance of principles, theories and

works in ḥadīth studies as well as the role of past and present
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scholars in shaping the history of the field and humanity at
large.

10. Constructive Alignment:

CLO Teaching-Learning Methods Assessment Methods

1, 3 Lectures Final Examination

2 Group-Project, Seminar Project

3 Lectures, Library Research Assignment

11. Assessment Distribution:

Assessment Methods Percentage

Final Examination 40

Project 30

Assignment 30

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 Must-pass Assessment Method(s) Percentage

Total 100

12. Course Content

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Terminologies and Concepts

1 • Basic terms in Ḥadīth studies 3 6
• The definition and aims of ʿUlūm al-Ḥadīth

ʿUlūm al-Riwāyah
● Recognising names (asmāʾ), paedonyms
(kunā), patronyms (ansāb), gentilic
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(nisbah).
● Recognising shuyūkh (informants) and
ruwāt (narrators) in the sanad.

ʿUlūm al-Riwāyah
● Recognising ṭabaqāt: how to find mawālīd
3 and wafayāt. 3 6
● Recognising ṭabaqāt: ṣaḥābah, tābiʿūn,
tābiʿ al-tābiʿīn.

ʿUlūm al-Riwāyah
● Understanding al-Taḥammul and al-Adāʾ.
4 ● Siyagh al-Taḥammul 3 6
● Understanding ijāzah and contemporary
ijāzah.

ʿUlūm al-Riwāyah
● Recognising sanad, isnād, musnid, musnad
(supported with sanad), al-sanad al-ʿālī and
5 al-sanad al-nāzil, matn, riwāyah, khabar, 3 6
naṣṣ, ḥujjah.
● Understanding iʿtibār, mutābiʿ, shāhid,
ʿazwu, takhrīj.

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 The Division of Khabar
• Mutawātir and Āḥād (recurrent and solitary
ḥadīth)
● The division of khabar based on the origin:
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qudsī (divine), nabawī (prophetic), marfūʿ
(prophetic), mawqūf (companion’s), maqṭūʿ
(follower’s) and athar.
● Understanding al-marfuʿ al-ḥukmī.

Khabar based on Acceptance and Rejection

7 • al-Ḥadīth al-Ṣaḥīḥ: Definitions, 3 6
Conditions, Examples and Literature.

Khabar based on Acceptance and Rejection

8 • al-Ḥadīth al-Ḥasan: Definitions, 3 6
Conditions, Examples and Literature.

Khabar based on Acceptance and Rejection

• al-Ḥadith al-Mardūd
• The rejection of khabar based on al-ittiṣāl
and al-inqiṭāʿ: al-muttaṣil, al-mursal, al-
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muʿallaq, al-munqaṭiʿ, al-muʿḍal (al-saqt
al-ẓāhir).
• al-Tadlīs and al-mursal al-khafiyy (al-saqṭ
al-khafiyy).

Khabar based on Acceptance and Rejection

● The rejection of khabar due to the
discreditation of narrators.
10 ● The emergence of fabricated ḥadīth: al- 3 5
mawḍūʿ and its causes.
● The difference between al-mawḍūʿ and al-
ḍaʿīf.

Khabar based on Acceptance and Rejection

• al-Matrūk, al-Munkar, al-Muʿallal, al-
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Mukhālif li al-Thiqāt, al-Mudraj, al-
Maqlūb

Khabar based on Acceptance and Rejection

• al-Mazīd fī Muṭṭasil al-Asānīd, al-
12 3 5
Muḍṭarib, al-Muṣaḥḥaf, al-Shādhdh, al-
Majhūl, al-Mubham, Sayyiʾ al-Ḥifẓ

13 ʿUlūm al-Dirāyah 3 5

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 ● Gharīb al-Ḥadīth, Mukhtalif al-Ḥadīth wa
Mushkilihi, Sabab Wurūd al-Ḥadīth.

ʿUlūm al-Dirāyah
• Nāsikh al-Ḥadīth wa Mansūkhihi, al-
14 3 5
Buʿdayn al-Zamānī wa al-Makānī, and
Sharḥ al-Ḥadīth.

Assessment 2 8

Total 44 86

13. References:

13.1. Required

A’zami, Muhammad Mustafa. (2010). Studies in Hadith: Methodology and Literature.

Kuala Lumpur. Islamic Book Trust.

al-Khairabadi, Mohammed Abullais. (2018). ʿUlūm al-Ḥadīth Aṣīluhā wa Muʿāṣiruhā.

Malaysia: Qurtubah.

Jawāmiʿ al-Kalim [Computer software]. Retrieved from: http://gk.islamweb.net:8080

al-Judaei, Abdullah ibn Yusuf (2003). Taḥrīr ʿUlūm al-Ḥadīth. Beirut: Muʾassasah al-
Rayyan.

13.2. Recommended

Derbalah, Islam Mahmud (2018). Muqaddimat fi Ulum al-Hadith, Kaherah, Dar Ibn
Kathir.

al-Ghuri, Syed Abdul Majid (2017) `Ilm Mustalah al-Hadith, Nashatuhu wa Tatawwaruhu
wa Takamulu. Kaherah: Dar Ibn Kathir.

al-Ghuri, Syed Abdul Majid (2019). al-Madkhal ila Dirasah Ulum al-Hadith. Kaherah: Dar
Ibn Kathir.

Ibn al-Ṣalāh, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. (1986) Maʿrifat Anwāʾ ʿUlūm al-Ḥadith. Al-
ʿItr, Nūr al-Dīn (ed.). Beirut: Dār al-Fikr al-Muʿāṣir.

al-Suyūtī, Jalāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abū Bakr. (2003) Tadrīb al-Rāwī fī Sharḥ
Taqrīb al-Nawawī. Muhammad, Tariq Awadullah (ed.). Riyadh: Dār al-ʿĀṣimah.

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Prepared by: Checked by:

Dr. Mohammed Abullais Shamsuddin

Dr. Nashwan Abdo Khaled
Dr. Saadeldin Mansour Gasmelsid Head,
Department of Qur’an and Sunnah Studies

Dr. Abu Hafiz Saleh Hudin

Date: 24 June 2022

Dr. Nurul Jannah Zainan Nazri

Dr. Zunaidah Mohd Marzuki

Department of Qur’an and Sunnah Studies

Date: 24 June 2022

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