Min al Nabi

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Chapter 4 From the Atba’ al Tabi’in to the Authors of the Famous Books   In this chapter, I study the development of narration from the previous class: the class of Malik (d. 179 AH), Shu’bah (d. 160 AH), Sufyan al Thawri (d. 161 AH) and others until I reach the famous Sunnah books. By this, I mean the six collections, which are […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   From Shu’bah to Ibn Ma’in… Consolidation of the critical approach and its expansion   Criticism developed extensively in that era. I mentioned previously that Shu’bah had a strong influence on Yahya ibn Sa’id al Qattan and ‘Abdul Rahman ibn Mahdi, both of whom were senior Imams of criticism, who discussed extensively about narrators and narrations. Their knowledge was inherited by several senior critics, […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   From the vast heritage of criticism and narration to Imam al Bukhari (d. 256 AH)   In this section, I present the arrival of the heritage of criticism to Imam al Bukhari and the formation of his critical personality and the factors influencing that. Then I show Imam al Bukhari’s critical output in his books and his students. Thereafter, I detail the ways […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Conclusion   Prophetic Ahadith: From the solidity of the discourse of Hadith criticism to the instability of modern reception   We have concluded from what has passed, that the narration of Hadith was transmitted in the first three centuries with clear naturalism and under a high critical umbrella, which scrutinised, examined, and distinguished between the ranks and degrees of narrations. Naturalism was evident […]