Ulum al-Hadith

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Chapter Two The Sunnah according to the Rawafid   It is beyond doubt that the Prophetic Sunnah is the second pillar from the pillars of this Din. Allah subhanahu wa ta ‘ala has ordered us as a categorical injunction in his book to obey Rasul Allah salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam who was the custodian of his revelation, the best of his creation, […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Chapter Three The Documentation of the Sunnah by the Rawafid   Herein there are two sections: Section One: Documentation of the Ahlus Sunnah. Section Two: Documentation of the Rawafid. Before we delve into the documentation of the Sunnah by the Rawafid, it is crucial to explicate its documentation according to the Ahlus Sunnah so that the greatness of the Ahlus Sunnah becomes clear, […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Section Two Documentation according to the Rawafid   The disparity between the heavens and the earth is the disparity between the documentation of the hadith according to Ahlus Sunnah and its documentation according to the Rawafid. Ibn al Nadim said: أول كتاب ظهر للشيعة كتاب سليم بن قيس الهلالي، رواه أبان بن عياش لم يروه غيره The first book which emerged of the […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Chapter Four The Canonical Books of the Rawafid   Hereunder there will be four sections: Section One: The eight collections Section Two: General comments on the eight collections Section Three: A brief study of al Kafi, the greatest book of the Rawafid Section Four: The four-hundred principal sources   Section One The Eight Collections   The reliable and supreme books which are deemed […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Section Two General Comments regarding the Eight Collections   Any Person who reads the narrations of these collections and their other sources of transmission will find a very big difference between the narrations which are narrated through the Ahlus Sunnah and are called ‘Hadith’, and the narrations which are transmitted through the Shia and are dubbed ‘Hadith’ as well. For in the six […]