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Isnad-Cum-Matn-Analysis

A Famous Report About Pious Fabrication in Hadith

November 9, 2022 by Joshua Little

Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān (d. 198/813) was an important early Hadith scholar in Basrah and one of the founders of proto-Sunnī Hadith criticism, the movement or methodology that ultimately produced the Sunnī Hadith canon. For example, the Syrian Sunnī Hadith scholar Muḥammad b. ʾAḥmad al-Ḏahabī (d. 748/1348) summarised the history of Hadith criticism as follows: … [Read more…]

Posted in: Hadith, History, Textual Analysis Tagged: Fabrication, Hadith, history, Ignaz Goldziher, Islam, Islamic history, Isnad-Cum-Matn-Analysis, Joshua Little, Pious, Pious Fabrication

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