Studies In Hadith Methodology And Literature M Mustafa Alazami by M. Mustafa Al-a'zami instant download after payment.

This is a topic-by-topic study about the science of Hadith written to fulfil the needs of modern college students whose medium of instruction is mainly in English.

Arabic is unable to benefit from it. Even those who speak Arabic find it

difficult to use these books due to the terminology used in them. Only a few

books on science of Hadith have been written in English and most of them

seem to be meant to confuse the readers. The only one in English which

can claim scholarly merit is one by Professor Zubair Siddiqi. I read it some

15 years ago, but it is out of print now and unavailable. Therefore, I have

written Studies in Hadith Methodology and Literature to fulfill the need of

College students, as well as that of educated laymen. I have avoided unnecessary details, and technical language as far as possible. I hope its careful

reading would eliminate most of the doubts which have been created, deliberately or out of ignorance, by Orientalists and others and would provide

basic knowledge of the subject. However, it would be naive to think that

after reading this book one would gain the capacity to criticise the Hadith.

The book has been divided into two parts. In Part One, I deal with the

subject of Hadith Methodology. In Part Two, I discuss the literature, introducing the six principal books, as well as six others which had great signifi- cance and represent a stage in the compilation of Hadith books. Those in- terested in the early recording of hadith may go through my book Studies

in Early Hadith Literature while the problem of isnad has been discussed

in my work On Schacht's Origins of Mahammadan Jurisprudence. Much

valuable information on the criticism of hadith may be found in the introduction to Kitab al-Tamyiz of Imam Muslim. Thus these early works have

contributed to many chapters of the present work."