Aaina Usool e Hadith

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• What Is a Hadith?

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• Qawl, Fiʿl, Taqrīr and Ḥāl: Learning Through Examples

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• Uṣūl al-Ḥadīth: Introduction and Purpose

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• Rāwī and Ruwāt: Hadith Narrators

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• Ṭarīq and Ṭuruq: Chains of One Hadith

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• Khabar and Akhbār: Words Used for Hadith

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• Companion and Successor

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• Mawqūf Reports: Attribution to a Companion

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• Maqṭūʿ Reports: Attribution to a Successor

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• Athar: Its Use for Mawqūf, Maqṭūʿ and Hadith

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• Mutawātir Hadith: Many Narrators and Four Conditions

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• Mashhūr Hadith and the Two Uses of Mustafīḍ

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• ʿAzīz Hadith: At Least Two Narrators in Every Generation

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• Gharīb Hadith: A Single Narrator in a Generation

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• Gharīb Muṭlaq and Gharīb Nisbī

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• Mutābiʿ and Shāhid

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• The ruling on Mashhūr, ʿAzīz and Gharīb

  The learner can recognize Hadith as a report of the Prophet's ﷺ saying, action, tacit approval, or state.

• Acceptance and rejection: Maqbūl and Mardūd

  Distinguish accepted and non-accepted reports, and separate narrator numbers from the basis for acceptance.

• Three bases for classifying accepted Hadith

  Recognize narrator-quality ranks, mutual conflict, and added content as distinct bases for classification.

• Ṣaḥīḥ li-Dhātihi: Two Narrator Qualities

  Understand and distinguish uprightness and precision in a narrator.

• Ṣaḥīḥ li-Dhātihi: The Remaining Three Conditions

  Understand a connected sanad, a hidden defect, and a shādhdh report.

• Ṣaḥīḥ li-Dhātihi: A Bukhari Example and Its Ruling

  Recognize the sanad and matn of the report and understand the ruling on acting upon sound Hadith.

• Ḥasan li-Dhātihi: Definition and Ruling

  Understand the difference in precision, the required conditions, and the ruling on acting upon ḥasan Hadith.

• Ṣaḥīḥ li-Ghayrihi: Definition, Corroboration, and Example

  Understand how a ḥasan li-dhātihi report becomes ṣaḥīḥ li-ghayrihi through support from other chains.

• Ḥasan li-Ghayrihi: Definition, Limits, and Example

  Understand support that removes weakness, its limits, and the ruling on ḥasan li-ghayrihi.

• Muḥkam Hadith: Definition and Example

  Understand the absence of an opposing Hadith of equal standing through an actual example.

• Mukhtalif al-Ḥadīth: Reconciling Apparent Differences

  Read two Hadith passages together and understand how their apparent opposition is resolved.

• Nāsikh and Mansūkh: Identifying the Earlier and Later Ruling

  Use an example of earlier and later practice to distinguish nāsikh from mansūkh.

• Rājiḥ and Marjūḥ: Preference and Practice

  Understand the case for preference, the two terms, and which report is followed.

• Mutawaqqaf fīh: When is judgment suspended?

  Understand when and what it means to suspend judgment.

• Maqbūl: An accepted addition in a report

  When is additional wording accepted?

• Maḥfūẓ: The more reliable narrator's report

  Recognize the maḥfūẓ report in the stated case of opposition.

• Shādhdh: Opposing a stronger report

  Understand a reliable narrator's opposing report and the source example.

• Maʿrūf: The reliable narrator's report against a weak report

  Recognize the maʿrūf report in the stated opposition.

• Munkar: A weak report opposing a reliable report

  Understand the attribution difference in the source example.

• Five forms of additional wording

  Distinguish the forms through opposition and narrator standing.

• Two basic causes of rejection

  A missing narrator and a defect in a narrator are distinct.

• Clear omission

  An evident omission of a narrator and its conditions.

• Hidden omission

  An omission that requires an expert to recognize.

• Connected Hadith

  No narrator is omitted from the chain.

• Musnad Hadith and a Musnad collection

  A connected chain, attribution to the Prophet ﷺ, and a distinct use for collections.

• Muʿallaq and Mursal

  Where was the narrator omitted?

• Muʿḍal and Munqaṭiʿ

  Consecutive and separate omissions

• Hidden Omission and Tadlīs

  The impression of hearing and the teacher's identity

• Narrator Criticism and Fabricated Reports

  Integrity, accuracy and false attribution

• Matrūk and Munkar Reports

  Classification by narrator defect

• Hadith Mu‘allal

  A hidden defect in the chain or text

• Contradicting more reliable narrators and Mudraj

  Distinguishing the report from a narrator’s explanation

• Maqlūb and an extra narrator in the chain

  Reversal of order and mistaken addition

• Muḍṭarib, muṣaḥḥaf and muḥarraf

  Conflicting reports and misreading

• Review: reasons for weakness in reports

  Definitions, examples and rulings

• Unknown narrators: identity and standing

  Causes, two categories and their rulings

• Bidʿah and acceptance of a report

  Two categories and conditions of acceptance

• Weak memory and the time of transmission

  Persistent and later-onset poor memory