The hadith sciences ('Ilm al-Hadith, علم الحديث) refer to those studies which investigate and determine the authenticity of any given hadith and those which explain a hadith and search in the meanings of it's words and so on.
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What does Hadith Gharib (حديث غريب) mean?
Sheikh al-Albani many times says/describes Imam at-Tirmidhi's narrations as ghareeb (ling. strange). So What does Hadith Gharib (حديث غريب) mean? Does it mean that a hadith is weak?
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What are the terms of that which has reached Tawatur?
Mutawatir is when a narration gains a huge amount of narrators that it being a lie has basically become impossible, in other words there would basically be no doubt in regards to it's authenticity. ...
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How many Sahih(Authentic) Hadith are there?
From the size of the major Hadith collections, I'd estimate that there are only around 80 thousand at most, including overlapping Hadith. Some links (quite unreliable) seem to put the number closer to ...
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What are the sources of Mawdu'/Fabricated Ahadeeth?
Some fabricated Ahadeeth come from an individuals self, but others come from other sources, like sayings of scholars, poets and doctors. So, what are the sources of fabricated Ahadeeth? What are the ...
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What are the terms in which a weak (Da'if) Hadith can be strengthened?
If a narrator is weak in his righteousness (عدالته) the hadith cannot be strengthened, but if the weakness is in a narrator's accurateness (ضبطه) the narration/hadith can be strengthened but under ...
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What is the ruling on someone who narrates, and He is weak, but saw the thing being narrated with His eyes?
Some scholars have made sanad Hasan, and in the sanad there is a Man who narrates, for example so and so the son of so and so said, but this man is weak in memory, but He also saw what was being ...
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What are the procedures that should be taken when trying to identify a fabricated Hadith?
When trying to look to see if a Hadith is Fabricated, one looks at two aspects
The narrator
The narration/the actual Hadith/The Matan
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What is the difference between Al Idraj wal Wad' (الإدراج و الوضع)?
Al Idraj is a saying not of the Prophet's (May God's blessings and peace be upon Him), and is sometimes on the part of the narrator, either to clarify a word or to make a saying of the Prophet (May ...
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Should a Hadith from people of Bid'at/innovations be trusted/accepted?
Should a Hadith from someone in the chain of narration (Isnad) who practices a Bid'ah be accepted? I have heard that if it supports what he is practicing of Bid'ah then it is not accepted but if it ...
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Did Bukhari consider narrators who narrate fabricated ahadith as reliable?
It is well-known (among Sunni muslims) that Imam Bukhari was extremely diligent while collecting ahadith, and his criteria are considered among the most stringent (if not the most stringent) in the ...
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What was al-Albani's methodology for authenticating ahadith?
Often, I see ahadith cited, especially from those major collections other than the sahihain, with their authenticity graded by al-Albani. From perusing his selected bibliography on Wikipedia, I can ...
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What are the requirements for the acceptance of a Hadith?
I know that there are requirements that those who collected ahadith like Bukhari and others to ensure the authenticity of a Hadith and accept it. For example, I hear often that the one giving the ...
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What is Al Jarh Wa at-Ta'dil ( الجرح و التعديل )?
What is Al Jarh Wa at-Ta'dil ( الجرح و التعديل )? and what is it's purpose?
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Did Imaam Bukhari record incidents (which he witnessed) in addition to narrations?
I was just curious to list down the narrators of Ahadith. While scraping through some hadith sites (programmatically), I found the following hadith which had no narrator.
Sahih Al-Bukhari Volume ...
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What types of ahadith do scholars derive fiqh from?
There are many ways to classify ahadith. One method is by authenticity: is it saheeh (authentic beyond question), hassan (good), da'eef (weak), or mawdoo' (fabricated?)
In my answer on another ...
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Can any hadith truly be called sahih anymore?
As is known, the majority of hadith literature available today was compiled well after the death of the prophet, due in part to the nigh-unmanageable number of questionable or downright fabricated ...
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Can a Hadith naratied from Khawarij be considered authentic?
According to Hadith sciences, how is a hadith which is narrated from Khawarij handled?
Can it be considered authentic or as soon as it is proved it is narrated from any of Khawarij , is it considered ...
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How many hadith is narrared by Abu Hurayrah? [closed]
Is it true Abu Hurayrah met prophet (SAWW) at ends of life of prophet (SAWW) for a short time (comparing other Sahaba) but still he narrated too many hadith (more than 5000 hadith) and Umar always ...
