Hadith studies

study of the sayings and traditions of Muhammad

An ijazah (, "permission", "authorization", "license"; plural: ijazahs or ijazat) is a license authorizing its holder to transmit a certain text or subject, which is issued by someone already possessing such authority. It is particularly associated with transmission of Islamic religious knowledge. The license usually implies that the student has acquired this knowledge from the issuer of the ijaza through first-hand oral instruction, although this requirement came to be relaxed over time. An ijaza providing a chain of authorized transmitters going back to the original author often accompanied

In the Islamic study of hadith, an isnād (chain of transmitters, or literally "supporting"; ) refers to a list of people who passed on a tradition, from the original authority to whom the tradition is attributed to, to the present person reciting or compiling that tradition. The tradition an isnad is associated with is called the matn. Isnads are an important feature of the genre of Islamic literature known as hadith and are prioritized in the process that seeks to determine if the tradition in question is authentic or inauthentic.

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Israiliyyat (in "Israelisms") is a sub-genre of tafsīr and Ḥadīth which supplements Quranic narratives. ''Isra'iliyyat may derive from Jewish, Christian or Zoroastrian sources. In the early years, Isra'iliyyat were widely accepted. Only by the time of Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Kathīr, the term Isra'iliyyat began to denote content considered dubious or as un-Islamic. In modern times, Turkish Quran commentators still allow for usage of Isra'iliyyat'', while they are rejected by half of the Arab Quran commentators.

subfield of hadith studies that aims to distinguish reliable from unreliable hadith

Category of hadiths

Islamic religious science

education related to the practice of being a true Muslim

critique of the classical Islamic consensus on the collection and use of hadith

Term from hadith research

Matn () is an Islamic term that is used in relation to Hadith terminology. It means the text of the hadith, excluding the isnad.

book by Al-Bukhari

book by ʿAbd-ar-Raḥmān Ibn-ʿAlī Ibn-al-Ǧauzī containing a collection of purportedly fabricated hadiths

Hadith collections arranged in sets of forty

Tawātur is concept in Islamic epistemology that refers to the certainty achieved about a piece of information when that information has been shown to have been corroborated to such an extent that it becomes inconceivable for it to have been created through collusion. The idea originated in Greek empiricism, but was imported into and refined within Islamic literature. It was widely used in disciplines including in Islamic philosophy, theology, law, the Quranic and hadith sciences, and grammar. As a technical term, tawātur was first used in circles of rationalists and Mutazilites as early as the