Beliefs

Ibn al-Salah said: When jarh and ta’dil come together in one person, the jarh would be given priority over ta’dil, as the moderated (mu‘addal) narrator tells of his apparent condition, while the jarih tells of a hidden reality about the mu‘addal. So ...

Ibn al-Salah said: When jarh and ta’dil come toget...

There was disagreement among ulama’ of jarh in regard of jarh and ta’dil proportionate to difference of their schools (madhahib) and conditions. Al-Hazimi, in Shurut al-A’immah al-Khamsah, says: The leaders (imams) of naql (reporting), with their mul...

There was disagreement among ulama’ of jarh in reg...

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 were mixed with incorrect ones, with capricious and irreligious people allow...

After finishing discussion on hadith books, I an g...

Al-Hafiz Ibn Salah says:529 "When they say: "This is a correct hadith' this means that its sanad (chain of transmitters) being attached to the other afore-mentioned attributes, and for its veracity it is no condition to be decisive in itself... as so...

Al-Hafiz Ibn Salah says:529 "When they say: "This ...

The weak (da’if) hadith is that which does not possess the characteristics of the sahih or hasan ones, and its weakness differs in the same way as the veracity of the sahih. In Sharh Muslim al-Nawawi writes: Its kinds are: al-mawdu’ (composed), al-ma...

The weak (da’if) hadith is that which does not pos...

There was much disagreement among men of hadith in respect of defining the hasan tradition. The following are some of their words in defining it: Al-Khitabi says: It is that hadith whose source was recognized, rijal were famous, and upon which revolv...

There was much disagreement among men of hadith in...

The correct hadith, as was defined, is that which having a consecutive chain of narrators from the beginning to the end, and transmitted through an accurate reliable narrator from his like being devoid of any oddity and defect. In al-Taqrib al-Nawawi...

The correct hadith, as was defined, is that which ...

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 Shi’ah so as to make commentary about this subject full-fledged on all respects, thus: The Shi'ah hold that: Th...

After discussing writing of hadith by Ahl al-Sunna...

From what has been said above, it can be concluded that the traditions of the Messenger of Allah were not written down neither during his lifetime nor in the era of Sahabah and their followers. And it is concluded also that tadwin only commenced in t...

From what has been said above, it can be concluded...

Al-Iskandari says: During the Abbasid reign the ulama’ started to revising and rectifying whatever was written in the suhuf, and writing what was kept in the breasts, arranging, classifying and compiling it in books. The strongest reason prompting th...

Al-Iskandari says: During the Abbasid reign the ul...

The Umayyad era was never regarded by the ulama’ as an age of well-arranged compilation, as they couldn't come across comprehensive classified books, But what they found that whatever produced by them was made in non-sorted corpuses bearing no knowle...

The Umayyad era was never regarded by the ulama’ a...

When the Companions were commanded to commit the hadith to writing, they did not respond to that order but only when being under coercion, as they were finding problem in writing it, after the sunnah (conduct) of the earlier Companions was based upon...

When the Companions were commanded to commit the h...

Al-Bukhari reported from Imran ibn Husayn, that the Messenger of Allah (S) said: The best of my Ummah being my offspring, and then their descendants and after them the descendants of their descendants. Imran said: I know not whether he has mentioned ...

Al-Bukhari reported from Imran ibn Husayn, that th...

Out of the controversial narrations we can refer to the various traditions cited in the books widely known among the Sunnis, dealing with al-Mahdi the Awaited, stating that he will reappear at the end of time to fill the world with justice as it was ...

Out of the controversial narrations we can refer t...

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 them all needs several volumes. Ibn Abbas is reported to have said: Allah creat...

I previously stated that riwayah from the Messenge...

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, with the aim of defaming and disowning him. He dedicated for this act a certain stipend, ...

Abu Ja'far al-Iskafi412 said that Mu'awiyah forced...

It is said that descension of Jesus (Messias) from the heaven being one of the signs of the Hour (Doomsday). It is reported in the two Sahihs and other books, that Abu Hurayrah said: The Messenger of Allah said: "By Whom in Whose hand is my life, the...

It is said that descension of Jesus (Messias) from...

Among the Masihiyyat traditions, it can be referred to the hadith reported by al-Bukhari on the authority of Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet said: "The Satan verily stabs every human being in the waist in time of birth, except Jesus the son of Mary, wh...

Among the Masihiyyat traditions, it can be referre...

Among the Masihiyyat stated by Tamim al-Dari to the Prophet (S), we can refer to the story of Jassasah, and that of the impostor, with that of descension of Jesus, and others. In regard of the hadith of Jassasah, it is reported by Muslim339 in his Sa...

Among the Masihiyyat stated by Tamim al-Dari to th...

(Hadith of Jassasah, of Satan's stabbing all mankind except Jesus and his mother — Ibn Jarih)If the Israeliyyat distorted the splendour of Islam through their fabricated falsities, the Masihiyyat too had a share of the misfortune that afflicted this ...

(Hadith of Jassasah, of Satan's stabbing all manki...

We stated before that the extolling made by the Jewish rabbis that the Prophet’s rule would be in the Sham was only for a purpose harboured inside their hearts. It is to be stated here that the Sham would have never deserved that extol and flattery, ...

We stated before that the extolling made by the Je...