Lights on the Muhammadan Sunnah

Rules and Principles On starting to lay down the foundations of this book, I haven’t thought it to be so protracted, so I tried my best then to delete from...

Rules and Principles On starting to lay down the ...

LIGHTS ON THEMUHAMMADAN SUNNAH or DEFENCE OF THE HADITH Publisher's Foreword 2 Dedication 4 Dr. Taha Husayn's Foreword 6 The Author's Response 17 Definition of the Book 20 Narrating Hadith...

LIGHTS ON THEMUHAMMADAN SUNNAH or DEFENCE OF THE...

Sayings of Madhahib Imitators: After completing the speech of those who refuted Ibn al-Salah, I am going to cite a number of sayings about imitators of madhahib and their (...

Sayings of Madhahib Imitators: After completing t...

Hypocrites Among Sahabah andSurat al-Tawbah: Al-Baghawi and others reported from Ibn Abbas as saying: The Messenger of Allah was not aware of the hypocrites till the revelation of Surat Bara’ah...

Hypocrites Among Sahabah andSurat al-Tawbah: Al-B...

Conclusion After finishing discussion of the Muhammadan hadith and its history, I found it proper to conclude my book with chapters containing researches related to hadith and comprehending it. And...

Conclusion After finishing discussion of the Muha...

Criticism by Ulama’ of Fiqh al-Hadith: He (Muhammad Abduh) said also: Beside the criticism of the ulama’ of fiqh al-hadith against the asanid (chains of transmission) of reports and works,...

Criticism by Ulama’ of Fiqh al-Hadith: He (Muhamm...

Sorcery Hadith is of Ahad: The hadith on sorcery - supposing it to be correct, is a singly narrated one (hadith ahad), and the ahad traditions are not approved in...

Sorcery Hadith is of Ahad: The hadith on sorcery ...

Al-Nasa’i He is Abu Abd al-Rahman Ahmad ibn Shu’ayb al-Nasa’i. He was born in Nasa which belonged to Nisabur in 215 H. Al-Daraqutni said: He travelled for performing the hajj...

Al-Nasa’i He is Abu Abd al-Rahman Ahmad ibn Shu’a...

A Research on Disagreement Al-Imam al-Muqbili,661 in his book al-‘Ilm al-shamikh fi tafdil al-haqq ala al-aba’ wa al-mashayikh, dedicated a separate chapter in which he discussed the issue of disagreement...

A Research on Disagreement Al-Imam al-Muqbili,661...

Reliability of the Companions The issue of reliability of the Companions is quite critical, about which much talk was there, beside lengthy dispute throughout all ages. Hence this subject deserves...

Reliability of the Companions The issue of reliab...

Jarh and Ta’dil After finishing discussion on hadith books, I an going to talk about jarh (sarcasm) and ta’dil, saying: When riwayah was inflicted with that corruption, and sahih traditions...

Jarh and Ta’dil After finishing discussion on had...

Muslim and His Book His name is Abu al-Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri al-Nisaburi. He was born in Nisabur in the year 204 H, and dead in it in 268...

Muslim and His Book His name is Abu al-Husayn Mus...

Tadwin al-Hadith:468 In the beginning stage of putting hadith to writing, the Sahabah wrote it down in the form they received it. Every one of them embarked on collecting as...

Tadwin al-Hadith:468 In the beginning stage of pu...

The Shiah and Writing of Hadith After discussing writing of hadith by Ahl al-Sunnah, I found it better to complete our discussion about history of tadwin of hadith by the...

The Shiah and Writing of Hadith After discussing ...

Famous Hadith Books I have stated earlier that sorts of hadith (al-ahad) being: sahih, hasan (good) and da’if (weak), presenting samples of their utterances about the sahih, as it was...

Famous Hadith Books I have stated earlier that so...

A Necessary Meditation It is proper here to make a short halt to meditate over what I stated before, of the sayings of Ibn al-Salah and al-Iraqi and al-Hakim, beside...

A Necessary Meditation It is proper here to make ...

Abu Hurayrah If the traditions of the Messenger of Allah were altogether the cornerstone of religion — like the Qur'an — upon which Din is set up, and source of...

Abu Hurayrah If the traditions of the Messenger o...

Fabrication of Traditions against Ali Abu Ja'far al-Iskafi412 said that Mu'awiyah forced some of the Companions and the Followers to narrate obscene and indecent reports, with ascribing then to Ali,...

Fabrication of Traditions against Ali Abu Ja'far ...

Al-Dajjal (Impostor) 447 About al-Dajjal, to whom Ibn Khaldun referred in his discussion on al-Mahdi, many traditions have been reported, some of which indicating that the Prophet (S) was believing...

Al-Dajjal (Impostor) 447 About al-Dajjal, to whom...

First Narrator Accused in Islam: Ibn Qutaybah, in Ta'wil mukhtalif al-hadith, said: "When Abu Hurayrah reported that abundance of traditions the similar of which none among his Companions and the...

First Narrator Accused in Islam: Ibn Qutaybah, in...

Ambiguous Traditions I previously stated that riwayah from the Messenger of Allah included many ambiguous and odd traditions, of which I cite some herewith for exemplary sake only as covering...

Ambiguous Traditions I previously stated that riw...