AHLE HADITH

  Part 2: Hadeeth Science and Literature: Isnād, Matn, Hadeeth, Khabr and Athar In part 1 we began the topic ‘An Introduction to the Sciences of Hadith and Early Hadith Literature,’ which was an introduction to the various knowledge-based sciences that are connected to the hadith of Allah’s Messenger (salallaahu `alaihi wassallam). And it was, in essence, to show the importance of this affair, and its foundations in the Book of Allah, and in the Sunnah of Allah’s Messenger (salallaahu `alaihi wassallam), with the  Sahaabah  and with the  Taabi’een  and in every generation, from that generation through to the times that we live in, and, in fact, up until the Last Hour. The sciences of hadeeth and the  isnaad  are from the religion and it is from the particular characteristics of this  Ummah. `Ilm al-Hadeeth (The Science of Hadeeth) So today we are going to begin with some definitions: The definition of  ‘ilm-ul-hadeeth  is that it is...

  Part 1: Hadeeth Science and Literature: Context, History and its Importance We begin today a new lesson that is an introduction to the Sciences of Hadith and an introduction to early hadeeth literature. And this is really a beginner’s guide to understanding the Hadeeth of Allah’s Messenger (salallaahu `alaihi wassallam) and their compilation, but there is actually an ‘introduction’ to this introduction and that is that which I discussed during the conference and it is advisable to those who were not able to listen to those two lectures that I gave during that conference a month or less ago, that were titled ‘ Indeed this knowledge is Religion’  [visit salafisounds.com for that introductory lecture]. That was the title of the conference and my lectures were actually rotating around the beginnings of the Sciences of Hadeeth, and that’s where all of those narrations were brought regarding how the Sciences of Hadeeth began from a historical perspective, and also the importance t...