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The Reliability of Hadith Transmission

A Re-examination of Hadith-Critical Methods


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This ground breaking study seeks to identify the challenges found in the dating and reconstruction of the hadith literature. To achieve this it meticulously tests a number of classical and contemporary approaches to the dating and reconstruction of hadith in order to demonstrate the likely trajectory of each. In its conclusion it outlines the possible strengths and weaknesses of each approach.
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SKU (ISBN): 978-1-4632-0631-4
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Languages: English
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0631-4
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The majority of Muslims believe that Hadiths are the carrier of the sunna of the Prophet and that they are an indispensable guide to an understanding of the divine will. As one of the sources of Islamic authority, which is only second in importance after the Qur'an, the immense corpus of Hadith continues to exercise a decisive influence. It has become a source of law and religious inspiration. Islamic scholarship has devoted tremendous efforts to gathering and classifying the Hadiths and distinguishing the authentic from the false ones. While Muslim scholars have been decisively motivated to study Hadith by the central role played by Hadiths as the source of their law and theological doctrine, the interests of modern Western scholars in the study of Hadith literature have essentially been historical. Similarly, when they study Islamic law, for example, they tend to approach it as a mode of thought rather than as a body of rights, obligations and rules of procedure. In other words, they are not lawyers but students of culture. The present study examines a number of leading approaches to hadith analysis and compares the results in order to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches.

The majority of Muslims believe that Hadiths are the carrier of the sunna of the Prophet and that they are an indispensable guide to an understanding of the divine will. As one of the sources of Islamic authority, which is only second in importance after the Qur'an, the immense corpus of Hadith continues to exercise a decisive influence. It has become a source of law and religious inspiration. Islamic scholarship has devoted tremendous efforts to gathering and classifying the Hadiths and distinguishing the authentic from the false ones. While Muslim scholars have been decisively motivated to study Hadith by the central role played by Hadiths as the source of their law and theological doctrine, the interests of modern Western scholars in the study of Hadith literature have essentially been historical. Similarly, when they study Islamic law, for example, they tend to approach it as a mode of thought rather than as a body of rights, obligations and rules of procedure. In other words, they are not lawyers but students of culture. The present study examines a number of leading approaches to hadith analysis and compares the results in order to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches.

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