Phraseology of Hadith — Seal of the Prophets Vol. 1
Introduction
In this discourse from The Life & Character of the Seal of the Prophets (Volume 1), Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad (ra) details the historical events and scholarly insights surrounding Phraseology of Hadith.
Book Series: The Life & Character of the Seal of the Prophets (Volume 1)
Author: Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad (ra)
Section: I-Early Sources of Sirat & Islamic History
Pages: Book pp. 32–32 (PDF pp. 56–56)
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Historical Account
In the art of the principles of Ḥadīth or ‘Ilm-e-Riwāyat, two ancillary fields of knowledge are particularly worthy of mention. These two fields are known as ‘Ilm-e-Muṣṭaliḥāt-e- Ḥadīth, and ‘Ilm-e-Asmā’-ur-Rijāl. The science basis upon which various Aḥādīth are sorted by category. It mentions the titles under which Aḥādīth are categorized, and outlines the weight of one category over another. According to this science, various categories of Ḥadīth have been established from many perspectives. Among them, the most prominent are:
[The Science of Narration (Publishers)]
[The Science of the Phraseology of Ḥadīth (Publishers)]
[The Science of the Names of Prominent Men (Publishers)]
Mutawātir, Mashhūr, ‘Azīz, Gharīb, Shādh, Munkar, Ṣaḥīḥ, Ḥasan, Ḍa‘īf, Matrūk, Mauḍū‘, Marfū‘, Mauqūf, Maqtū‘, Muttaṣil, Munqaṭi‘, Mursal, Mu‘aḍal, Mu‘allal, Mudallas, Muḍṭarib, Mudarraj, Qaulī, Fi‘lī, Taqrīrī, Qudsī, etc.
[Refer to the ‘Alphabetical Glossary of Terms’ for details (Publishers)]
Numerous books have been written about this field of knowledge, however, the most familiar and commonly utilised are as follows:
- Nuzhatun-Naẓar fī Tauḍīḥi Nukhbatil-Fikr, by Abul-Faḍl Aḥmad bin
Ḥajar ‘Asqalānī, who died in 852 A.H.
- Al-Yawāqītu wad-Durar, by Sheikh ‘Abdur-Rau’ūf Al-Munādī, who
died in 1031 A.H
Asmā’-ur-Rijāl
The field of study known as Asmā’-ur-Rijāl refers to a science in which the biographies of the narrators of Ḥadīth and Sīrat, have been gathered in one place by critique, in order to assess the quality of the chain of narrators whenever a narration is brought before us. It is evident that this science is very broad and extensive, to such extent as based on the statement of Sir William Muir, the particulars of 40,000 narrators have been preserved
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