Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 A tentative chronology of the origins of Muslim tradition

Introduction

Awā'il evidence

The chronology of the growth of traditions

The origin of the concept 'prophetic sunna'

The earliest development of the hadlth centres

1. Hijāzī isnāds: a. Mecca

2. Medina

2. Egyptian isnāds

3. Syrian isnāds

4. Iraqi isnāds

Ba$ra.

Küfa

A tentative chronology of talab al- 'ilm

Summary and conclusions

2 The role of qādīs in the spreading of traditions

Introduction

The qādīs of Egypt

The qādīs of Syria

The qādīs of Medina

The qādīs of Mecca

The qādīs of Basra

The qādīs of Kūfa

The qādīs of Bagdad

The qādīs in other centres

Summary and conclusions

3 The man kadhaba tradition and the prohibition of lamenting the dead. An investigation into mutawdtir traditions

Introduction

NWH in sources other than hadīth

NWP in hadīth literature

Man kadhaba etc. in non-Iraqi collections

Man kadhaba in the Muwatta'

Man kadhaba with Shāji'ī and Humaydī

Man kadhaba with 'Abd Allāh b. Wahb

Man kadhaba in Iraqi collections

Abū Hanīfa and the transmission of hadīth

Man kadhaba in Iraqi collections (continued): ar-Rabī' b. Habīb

Man kadhaba in Tayālisī

Man kadhaba in later Iraqi sources and conclusions

4 An appraisal of muslim hadith criticism. Rijāl works as depositories of transmitters' names

Introduction

Ibn Hajar's Tahdhib at-tahdhī b

The case of Hafs b. 'Umar

The case of' 'Ikrima

The case of Bishr

The case of Abū Ishāq

Nāfi' and Shu'ba

The dependable Thābit

The case of Anas

The accumulation of certain names

The case of Zuhrī

Conclusion

5 'Accepting traditions means knowing the men'

Introduction

The evolution of tarjamas in the rijāl works

The development of technical terms in rijāl works

The collective ta'dīl of the Companions

The common-link theory of J. Schacht

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Appendix Iv

Appendix v

Bibliography

Index (glossary)