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SUNNI ḤADĪTH - TRADITION LITERATURES AND COMPENDIA.

IN PROGRESS 2009-10


Stephen Lambden (UC-Merced).

"Second- and third-century papyrus manuscripts of Tradition attest to early and progressive transition from oral to written transmission. They represent Quranic commentary, law, biography, and military and political history. They yield evidence of the existence and circulation of sizeable manuscripts of Tradition in the second half of the first century. They provide, for the most part, stronger chains of authorities for the Hadīfh and sunnah of the Prophet than for those of the Companions. Finally, the contents of the Traditions about the Companions have few or no parallels in the pertinent sources. In marked contrast, the Hadīth and sunnah of the Prophet find a high rate of survival in the extant corpus of Tradition" ( Refer Beeston, A. F. L. (et.  al., eds.), The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period. Cambridge: CUP, 1983, Ch. 11 p. 298). .

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The Muslim Students Association at the University of Southern California (MSA-USC)

 

'Abd al-Razzāq ibn Hammām al-San'ānî, Abū Bakr (126-211 AH = 743-826 CE).

  • al-Musannaf, Ed. Habîb al-Rahmān al-A'zamî, 10 vols., Beirut, 1390-92/1970-72.

  • al-Musannaf, Ed. Habîb al-Rahmān al-A'zamî, Johannesburg: Majlis 'Ilmi, 1970-72.

  • "This collection of hadiths is the earliest extant musannaf. The author came from Yemen and studied under Ma'mar and Ibn Jurayj. The traditions in the Musannaf come mainly from three people: Ma'mar, Ibn Jurayj, and Thawri. There are also relatively small numbers of traditions from Ibn 'Uyayna, Abu Hanifa, Malik ibn. Anas, and dozens of other people. The aforementioned authorities, Ibn Jurayj (d. 150/767) and Ma'mar b. Rashid (d. 153/770), were both said to have been compilers of musannafs." BS

  •  Tafsîr al-Qur'ān al-'azîz, ed. 'A. A. Qal'ajî, 2 vols., Beirut, 1991.

 

THE SIX SUNNI AUTHORITATIVE ("CANONICAL") HADITH COMPILATIONS.

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al-Bukhārī:  Abū  'Abd-Allāh Muhammad b. Ismā'īl ibn Ibrahim al-Bukhārī, al-Ju`fī (xxx-256 = 810-870).

His Sahih contains 7,397 Hadith (with about 4,000  repetitions)  in 97 books

  • Şaḥīḥ, 4 vols. ed. L. Krehl and Th. W. Juynboll, Leiden 1862-1908,
  • Kitāb al-Jāmī al-Şaḥīḥ,  4 vols. ed. L. Krehl. Leiden, 1862-1908.
  • Sahih + Commentary of al-Kirmani 24 vols. Cairo: ADD., 1351-6/1932-8.
  • Les traditions islamiques, 4 vols. transl, by O. HOUDAS and W. MARCAIS Paris: ADD,  1903-1914. .
  • Şaḥīḥ,  9 vols. Cairo: Matba`at Mustafa al-Bābī al-Halabī, 1345/XXXX.  
  • Ṣaḥīḥ,  Kitāb al-Jāmi' al-ṣaḥīḥ ("The Book of the Reliable [Sound] Tradition") ed. L. Krehl and T.W. Juynboll, 4 vols., Leiden 1862-1908.
  •  9 vols., Cairo 1958.
  • Le "Sahih" d'al-Bukhari : reproduction en phototype des manuscrits originaux de la recension occidentale dite "recension d' Ibn Sa'ada," etablie a Murcie en 492 de l'hegire (1099 de J.-C.) / par... Paris : P. Geuthner, 1928-
  • Selections from the Sahih of al-Buhari. Edited with notes by Charles C. Torrey. Photomechanical reprint of 1948 edition. Leiden, Brill, 1969. (= Series title: Semitic study series no. 6).
  • al-Bukhari, Muhammad b. Ismā'īl, al-Jāmi' al-Şahlh, 25 vols. Beirut: ADD, 1970.
  • 2004 edition
  • Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukharī, ed. Muhamad Nizār Tamīn and Haytham Nizār Tamīn, Beirut: Dar al-Arqam ibn Abi Arqam, n.d. (1,772pp).*
  • Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukharī, The Translation of the Meanings of Sahih Bukhari (Arabic-English) Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Islamic University, Al-Medina al-Munawwara,  Beirut: Dar al-`Arabiyya, 9 vols.  1405/1985.*
  • Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukharī, The Translation of the Meanings of Sahih Bukhari (Arabic-English) Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Islamic University, Al-Medina al-Munawwara,  New Delhi: Bhavan, 9 vols.  1984+ rev. ed. 1987.*
  • Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukharī bi-Hashiyya Imam al-Sindi (=Abū 'l-Hasan Nur al-Din Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Hadi al-Sindi d. 1138/1725-6) Beirut: Dar Hadith (?), n.d.    Rep. of Lithograph ed. in 4 vols. *
  • al-Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukharī ed. Qasim al-Shamma'i al-Rifa'i ., 9 vols. in 4.  Beirut: Dar al-Qalam, 1987.

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Muhammad Asad,

  • Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukharī, The Early Years of Islam, Being the Historical Chapters of the KITĀB AL-JAMľ AŞ-ŞAHÎH compiled by Imam Abū  'Abd-Allah Muhammad ibn Isma'II AL-Bukhari , translated and explained by Muhammad Asad,  GIBRALTAR: DAR AL-ANDALUS, 1938 Rep. 1981. 

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al-`Askalānī, Aḥmad ibn `Alī [Nūr al-Dīn] Ibn Ḥajar (773-852 AH = ADD-1449 CE).

(d. Cairo 852/1449).

فتح البارى شرح صحيح البخارى

  • Fatḥ al-Bārī bi-Sharḥ al-Bukharī,  17 vols. Cairo: 1321-2/19      

  • Fatḥ al-Bārī fi Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukharī. 18 vols. Cairo: al-Mustafa al-Babi al-Halabi, 1379/1959. +
  • Fatḥ al-Bārī fi Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukharī. 14 vols, ed. 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn 'Abdullah ibn Baz; Muhammad Fu'ad 'Abd al-Baqi + Muhibb al-Din al-Khatib, Beirut: Dar al-Ma'rifa, XXXX/ 1959-70.
  • Fatḥ al-Bārī fi Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukharī, ed. by M. Fuwad, 'Abdu'l-Baqi, Cairo: ADD., 1380.

  • Fatḥ al-Bārī Sharḥ  Ṣaḥīḥ  al-Bukharī,  vol. 1 [= Muqaddamah] +13 + 2 [Index ] (= 16) vols. Beirut: Dar al-

  • Fatḥ al-Bārī Sharḥ  Ṣaḥīḥ  al-Bukharī. 15 vols.

 Abdal Hakim Murad (trans.)

  • Selections from Fath Al-Bari. Muslim Academic Trust, 2000. ISBN-10: 1902350049 ISBN-13: 978-1902350042

Tahdhib al-Tahdhib.

  • Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 12 vols., Hyderabad: Da'irat al-Ma'arif al- Nizamiyya, 1325-27/1907-10.
  • Tahdhib al-Tahdhib. ed. 'Ali Muhammad al-Bijawi, 8 vols., Cairo: Dar Nahdat Misr li'l-Tab' wa'l-Naskh, 1970-72.
  • Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 14 vols., Beirut: Dar al-Fikr lil-Tiba`ah wa-al-Nashr, 1984-1988. 
  • Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 12 vols., ed. Mustafa `Abd al-Qadir `Ata', Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyah, 1994

al-Durar al-Kamina

  • al-Durar al-Kaminah fi a`yan al-ma'ah al-thaminah ed. Muhammad Sayyid Jad al-Haqq. 2nd ed. Cairo : Dar al-Kutub al- Haditha, XXXX/1966-67.

 

al-Qasṭalānī,  Shaykh Abī al-`Abbās Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muhammad (d. 923/1517)

  • Irshād al-Sārī li-Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukharī. 10 vols. Beirut: Dar al-Ihya al-Turath al-`Arabi.  n.d. = reprint of 1304/1886-7 Egyptian edition Bulaq [Cairo] : al-Matba`at al-Kubra al-Amiriyya. *

al-Bukhārī- further writings.

  • Imam Bukhari's Book of Muslim Morals and Manners [Kitab  al-Adab al-Mufrad]. comp. Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari trans. Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, Alexandria, Virginia: al-Saadawi Publications, [ Beirut: al-Saadawi Publiations), English and Arabic 1997+1999. (564pp.). *
  • Kitāb at-ta'rlkh al-kabïr, ed. Hyderabad ADD, 8 vol.
  • Mu’jam gharîb al-Qur’ān, mustakhrajan min Sahîh al-Bukhārī. + Ibn ’Abbas: Masā’il Nāfi’ b. Azraq. Repr. Cairo 1950 ed., Istanbul 1985. (xxv + 293 pp.)

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Muslim = Abu'l Husayn ibn al-Hajjāj al-Qushayri al-Naysaburi  (= b Nishapur c. XXX-261 =  817 [25] - 875)

  • Kitāb al-Jāmi' al-ṣaḥīḥ ("The Book of the Reliable [Sound] Tradition"), Contains around 4,000 Hadith in 52 books.
  • Ṣaḥīḥ, ed. Muhammad.,  ed. Fu'ād 'Abd al-Bāqī, 5 vols., Cairo 1955-6
  • Saḥīḥ Muslim. ed. Muhammad Fū'ād 'Abd al Bāqī. 5 vols. Beirut: Dar al-Ihya՝ al-Turāth, 1956-72.
  • Ṣaḥīḥ, ed. Muhammad Fu'ād 'Abd al-Bāqī, 18 vols. in 9 + Index vol. Beirut: Dar al-kutub al`Ilmiyya, 1415/1995.
  • Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim bi-Sharḥ Nawawi, Imam Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawa'i al-Damashqi al-Sha`fi'i (d. 677/1277) ed. Muhammad Fu`ad `Abd al-Baqi, 18 Pts in 9 vols. + 1 index volume, Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya, 1415/1995. *

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Abū  Dāwūd, Sulaymān ibn al-Ash'ath al-Sijistānī, (ADD = c. 812 [817]-889)

URL : http://www.iiu.edu.my/deed/hadith/abudawood/

  • Sunan, ed. Muhammad Muḥyī al-Dīn 'Abd al-Ḥamīd, 4 vols., Cairo:ADD., 1339/ 1920 + 1348/1929.
  • Sunan. [ed. Muhammad Muḥyī al-Dīn 'Abd al-Ḥamīd?], 4 vols., Cairo: ADD., XXXX/ 1935.
  • al-Sunan. Beirut, Dar al-Kitab al-'Arabi, XXXX/1967
  • Sunan Abi Da'ud Sulayman ibn al-Ash'ath al-Sijistani al-Azdi ; raja'ahu 'ala 'iddat nusakh wa-dabata ahadithahu wa-'allaqa hawashiyahu Muhammad Muhyi al-Din 'Abd al-Hamid. [Beirut] : Dar Ihya' al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyah, XXX/197?.
  • Sunan, ed. Muhammad Muḥyī al-Dīn 'Abd al-Ḥamīd,  X vols. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyah, 1980.

Sunan Abu Dawood : 5 Volume Set (Arabic And English) (Imam Hafiz Abu Dawud Sulaiman bin Ash'ath)

  • Sunan Abu Dawood. Imam Hafiz Abu Dawud Sulaiman bin Ash'ath (comp.); Hafiz Abu Tahir Zubair Ali Za'I (ed.); Yaser Qadhi (trans.); Abu Khaliyl (edi.)  5 vols. Darussalam Publishers & Distributors, 2008. : 3033pp. ISBN: 9789960500119.

 

'Abdallah b. abi Da'ū
d, Kitāb al-Maşahif, ed. A. Jeffery, Cairo, 1355/1936.
 

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al-Nasā'ī, Abū  Abd al-Rahman Aḥmad ibn Shu'ayb (303/915)

  • Sunan = al-Sunan al-kubrā, ed. 'Abd al-Ghaffār Sulayman al-Bundārī and al-Sayyid Kisrawī Ḥasan, 6 vols., Beirut 1411/1991

  • Kitab al-sunan al-kubra, ed. `Abd al-Samad Sharaf al-Din, Bombay: al-Dar al-Qayyimah, 1985.

  • Sunnan = Sunan al Nasā’ī bi sharḥ.. Jalāl al Dīn al Suyūtī. Vol. 2 Cairo: Dār al ḥadīth., 1405/1987. *

  • Sunan al-Nasāl. 8 vols. Cairo: Maţba'a al-Misrĩya, 1930.


  • Sunan Nasa'I (with Arabic) 2 Vol. (partial translation)

  • Sunan Nasa'i. trans. + Arabic M. Iqbal Siddiqi, Kazi Publications (Pakistan)  A partial  English translation of Sunan Nasa'i made by   Muhammad Iqbal Siddiqi. Includes chapters 1 - 532 (Ahadith 1 - 878). 527 pp. ISBN: 0933511442 Author

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al-Tirmidhī, Abū  `Īsā' Muhammad ibn `Īsā' ibn Sawra [al-Sulamī] (279/892-3) / (d. c. 279 / 892)

  • Sunan al-Tirmidhī. ed. `Abd al-Wāḥid Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tāzī.  Cairo: ADD., XXXX/1931-4.
  • Sunan, ed. Aḥmad Muhammad Shākir et al., 2 vols., Cairo 1356/1937.
  • al-Jāmī al-ṣaḥīḥ, ed. Aḥmad Muhammad Shākir et al., 5 vols., Cairo 1937-65
  • al-Jami` al-ṣaḥīḥ, ed. Ahmad Muhammad Shakir, Muhammad Fu`ad `Abd al-Baqi, and Ibrahim `Atwah `Iwad, Delhi: Kutub Khanah Rashidiyah, 1937.
  • al-Sahih, 10 vols, Cairo, 1350/1931with Sharh Sahĩh al-Tirmidhĩ of Ibn al-'Arabi. ADD HERE.
  • al-Jamı' al-Sabib. 5 vols. Edited by Ahmad Muhammad Shākir. Cairo: Maţlia'a al-Misrĩya, 1931-34.
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  • Jami' At-Tirmidhi . Trans. Abu Khaliyl  ed. Hafiz Abu Tahir Zubair 'Ali Za'I.  Dar-us-Salam Publishers & Distributors 2007. 3450pp.  ISBN: 9960996738
  • 'Ilal al-Hadīth, Sahih al-Tirmidhl, 5 vols., Cairo, 1356-85/1937-65,
     

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Ibn Mājah : Abū `Abd-Allāh Muhammad ibn Yazīd  al-Qurayshi (ADD- 273 AH = 825-886 CE).

Muslim scholar of Qazwin Persia. His Kitab al-Sunan contains 4,341 Hadiths in 37 books  (3002 Hadiths are found in the other 5 collections).

  • Sunan. 2 vols. Cairo: 'Īsā al-Babi al-Halabi, 1952-54.
  • Sunan, 2 vols. ed. Muhammad Fu'ād 'Abd al-Bāqī, ., Cairo 1952-3
  • Sunan, ed. Muhammad Fu`ad `Abd al-Baqi, Cairo: Matba`ah al-Taziyah, 1952.
  • Sunan, ed.  .... 1372/1972.
  • [Kitab al-] Sunan Ibn Mājah, ed. Mahmūd Muhammad Mahmūd Ḥasan Naṣṣār, 5 vols. Beirut: Dar al-kutub al-`ilmiyya, 1419/1998.  *
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Sunan Ibn-I-Majah : Arabic w/ English translation (5 volume set)

  • Sunan Ibn-i-Majah. 5 vols. Arabic + Eng. trans.  Mohammad  Tufail Ansari : Kitab Bhavan 2000pp.  ISBN: 8171512909

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  • Sunan Ibn Mājah -- Imam Muhammad Bin Yazeed Ibn Majah al-Qazwini; Hafiz Abu Tahir Zubair Ali Za'I (ed.); Nasiruddin al-Khattab (trans.). 5 vols. Darussalam, 2007. 2678 pp. ISBN: 9960988139.

 

 

Suhaib Hasan Abdul Ghaffar,

  • CRITICISM OF HADITH AMONG MUSLIMS WITH REFERENCE TO SUNAN IBN MAJA. London:  Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd., and Al-Qur'ān Society, 1986. *

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 al-Dārimī :  Abū  'Muhammad 'Abd-Allāh b. 'Abd al-Rāhmān ibn Faḍl al-Bahrām al-Dārimī (d.255/869).

"This author had a work entitled Kitāb al-Sunan, or al-Musnad al-jāmī, which was muṣannaf, not musnad, though its author so named it. It consists of 1,363 ḥadīth distributed over 23 kitābs, each divided into bābs, arranged in the legal order. The author examines the credibility of narrators and discusses legal points in an original, independent manner, but the book lacks consistency and many of its isnāds are of the interrupted categories. Some, however, grade it higher than Ibn Mājah's book and include it among the Six Works instead of the latter's work." (CHAL1:ADD)
 

  • Sunan al-Dārimī. Damascus: Matba'a al-I'tidal, 1349/1930-31.
  • Sunan.  Cairo 2 vols. 1387/1966.
  • Sunan al-Darimi, wa-huwa al-Imam al-Kabir Abu Muhammad 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Fadl ibn Bahram al-Darimi al-mutawaffa sanat 255.  Muhammad Ahmad Dahman.  Beirut : Dar Ihya' al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyah, XXXX/197?.
  •  Sunan  al-Dārimī , ed. Shaykh Muhammad `Abd al-`Aziz al-Khalidi,  2 vols. Beirut: Dar al-kutub al-`Ilmiyya,  1417/1999.*
     

al-Dāraquṭnī : Abū ’l-Ḥasan 'Alī b. 'Umar al-Dāraqutnī (d. 385/995).
 

"In al-Ilzāmāt 'alā'l-Bukhārī wa-Muslim the author compiles hadīth which fulfil the prerequisites of al-Bukhārī and Muslim and therefore could have been included in their Saḥīḥs. This type is known as istidrāk (plural, istidrākāt), i.e. readjustment by additions. Al-Daraquṭnī chose the term Ilzāmāt, i.e. "those which must be accepted", for emphasis. Unlike our author's larger compilation, al-Sunan, in which he treats only legal points, al-Ilzāmāt, ranks high among ṣaḥīḥ  compilations." (CHAL 1: ADD).

  • Ahadith al-Muwatta'. ed. al-Kawthari, Cairo: XXXX., 1365/1946.
  • al-Sunan. 4 vols. Medina, 1386/1966.
  • Sunan al-Daraqutni - 'Ali ibn 'Umar al-Daraqutni ; wa-bi-dhaylihi al-Ta'liq al-Mughni 'ala al-Daraqutni . Abi al-Tayyib Muhammad Shams al-Haqq al-'Azimabadi. Cairo : Dar al-Mahasin lil-Tiba'ah, c. XXXX/ 1980.
  • Kitab al-Du'afa' wa-al-matrukin - Abi al-Hasan 'Ali ibn 'Umar al-Daraqutni ; haqqaqahu wa-'allaqa 'alayhi Subhi al-Badri Samarra'i. Beirut : Mu'assasat al-Risalah, 1984.
  • Sunan  al-Dāraquṭnī,  ed. Majdi ibn Mansur ibn Sayyid Shuri. 4 vols in 2  Beirut: Dar al-kutub al-`Ilmiyya,  1417/1996.*
  • al-Mu'talif wa'l-mukhtalif ed. MuwafTaq b. 'Abdallāh b. 'Abd al-Qādir, 5 vols., Beirut 1986

 

al-Ṭayālisī :   Abu Dāwūd Sulayman ibn Dāwūd ibn Jārūd al-Fāris al-Baṣrī al-Ṭayālisī (d. c. 204/819). 

This, perhaps the first Musnad contains 2,767 hadīth.

  • al-Musnad Abi Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, Hyderabad: ADD., 1321/1904.

  • Musnad Abi Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, Dar al-Ma`rifa, n.d. (455pp.). *

al-Hāfiz al-Nîsābũrĩ,

  • Kitab Ma'rifat 'ulūm al-Hadīth, Cairo, 1937.

Abū Ḥanīfah, al-Nu`mān ibn Thabit ibn Zūṭā (      = 699-767), Muslim jurist of Kufa.

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al-Tayālisī, Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd ibn al-Jarud ( d. c. 203or 4 / 819-820 ) Basran collector of Hadith.

  • Musnad, Hyderabad, 1321/
  • Manhat al-Ma'bū
    d, Cairo, 1372/1952.
     

al-Ṭabarānī = Abu Qāsim Sulayman ibn Ahmad ibn `Ayyūb  al-Ṭabarānī (d. 360/970-1).

  • al-Mu`jam al-Kabir. ed. `Abd al-Rahman Muhamad `Uthman. Medinah: XXXX., xxxx/1968. 

  • al-Mu`jam al-Kabir. ed. Hamdi `Abd al-Majid al-Salafi. Baghdad: XXXX., xxxx/1978. 

al-Bayhaqi, Ahmad ibn al-Husayn  (d.458/1066)

  • al-Sunan al-Kubrā (" The Greatest Sunan")., 10 vols.  Haydarābād 1354-6/ 1925-7.

  • Reprint  Beirut 10 vols+ Index., 1406/1986.

al-Marwazi (d.294/906)

al-Qurţubī,

  • al-Jāmi' li-Aḥkām al-Qur'ān, 20 parts in 10, Cairo, 1369/1950.

 Ibn Qutayba,

  • Ta'wīl mukhtalif al-Ḥadīth, Cairo, 1387/1966.

Ibn al-'Arabī, Muhyi al-Din   CHK

  • Ahkām al-Quran, 4 vols, Cairo, 1376/1957.

  • Sharḥ Ṣahīh al-Tirmidhī,  see al-Tirmidhī.
     

Aḥmad ibn `Alī [Nūr al-Dīn] Ibn Ḥajar al-`Askalānī (773-852 = 852/ 1449). d. Cairo 852/1449

  • Fatḥ al-Bārī bi-Sharḥ al-Bukharī,  17 vols. Cairo: 1321-2/19     + 1378/1959.

  • Fatḥ al-Bārī Sharḥ  Ṣaḥīḥ  al-Bukharī,  vol. 1 [= Muqaddamah] +13 + 2 [Index ] (= 16) vols. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya  1410/1989.*

  • Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb, 12 [13]  vols. Beirut, 1968. *

  • al-Qawl al-musaddad fi l-dabb ` an al-Musnad li-l-imam Ahmad (Hyderabad 1319/       ), reprinted numerous times.
  • Supplement to Ibn Haqar’s work is al-Säawi, al-Üayl al-mumahhad, mentioned in al-Suyuti, Tadrib al-rawi, naw 2: al-hasan = ed. Abū  Abd al-Rahman Salah ibn Muhammad ibn Uwayda,  Beirut 1417/1996.

Ibn Sa'd, Muhammad  (d. XXX/ 845)

  • Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā, 9 vols, Beirut: Dar Sadr,  1380-8/1960-8.

Ibn Wahb =  'Abd-Allāh ibn Wahb  (125/743-197/812) or (742 or 3 - 812 or 13 ).

  •   'Abd-Allāh ibn Wahb  (125/743-197/812) Leben und Werk : al-Muwatta', Kitab al-Muharaba / herausgegeben und kommentiert von Miklos Muranyi ,  Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1992 =  ISBN 3447032847.

  • Ibn Wahb, ‘Abd Allah, Jami‘. German & Arabic Title al-Gāmi‘ : tafsir al-Qur'ān : (die Koranexegese) / herausgegeben und kommentiert von Miklos Muranyi , Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1993

    • al-Jami' = al-Gāmī'  (= Die Koranswissenschaften), ed. M. Muranyi, Wiesbaden 1992

 Title page in Arabic: al-Jāmi [fī ‘ulūm al-Qur'ān]. xiii, 289 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Series Quellenstudien zur Hadīt- und Rechtsliteratur in Nordafrika /  Facsimile and transcription of Manuskript Qairawān 224; commentary in German Title on added  Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-148) and index Subjects Koran -- Early works to 1800 Alt name Muranyi, Miklos Other titles Jāmi‘ (fī ‘ulūm al-Qur'ān) OCLC # 29818080 ISBN 3447032839

  • al-Gāmi‘ : Tafsīr al-Qur'ān, Koranexegese 2 Teil I [ herausgegeben und kommentiert von Miklos Muranyi ]
    Publish info Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1995

al-Nawawī, Muhyi al-Din Abū Zakariyyā'  Yaḥyā b. Sharaf ibn Muri .... (631-676 = 1233-1277)

  • Sharh = Sharḥ Sahih Muslim, 18 vols, in 8, Cairo 1349/1929-30; ed. Khalīl Muhammad Shīhā.
  •  19 vols, in 10, Beirut 1995
  • Kitab al-Arba`in ("Book of the Forty [Traditions]")
  • Sharh Kitab al-Arba`in ("Commentary upon the Book of the Forty [Traditions]") -- There are many commentaries written on the above collection.
  • Sharh Sahīh Muslim, on margin of: al-Qasţallănl, Irshăd al-Sărî li-Sharh Sahīh al-Bukharī, 12 vols, Cairo, 1326/1908.

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Sunni Legal Schools and Traditionalists

Ibn Hanbal, Aḥmad b. Hanbal (XXX-241 = 780-855) d. Baghdad 241/855. Muslim Traditionalist, theologian and jurist.

"The Musnad of Ahmad b. Hanbal, (d. 241/85 5), founder of the fourth [p.274] law school, is the best known of this category. It was transmitted through Ibn Hanbal's own son, 'Abdullah (d. 290/903), and then through 'Abdullah's disciple, Abū  Bakr al-Qaţl'î, (d. 368-979), both of whom made a few additions. It relates on the authority of 700 male and almost 100 female Companions whose names are arranged according to their seniority, beginning with the first four caliphs (the "Rãsbidũn"}. It contains 30,000 hadtīhs, excluding 10,000 repetitions, filling six large volumes in small type in its Cairo edition (1312-13). Although the claim that the Musnad contains a few discredited hadīth was rejected by later scholars, it is admitted that some are "weak" (da'if}. However, to some jurists, like Ibn Hanbal himself, this type of hadīth was useful in making legal decisions" (CHAL 1:273-4).

The Musnad of Ibn Hanbal which contains over 27,000 hadith was first printed in Egypt in six volumes in the early 1890s under the direction of Ahmad al-Babi al-Halabi.

  • Musnad imam al-muhaddithin wa-l-qudwa fi l-zuhd wa-l-wara Cairo n. d..  early 1890s (so Melchert, 2005: 34+fn.12).

  •  al-Musnad. ed. Ahmad Muhammad Shākir. 15 vols. Cairo: Dār al-Ma'ārif, 1946-1949.
  • al-Musnad, ed. Muhammad al-Zuhrī al-Ghamrāwī, 6 vols., Cairo 1313/1895.  repr. Beirut 1978.
  • ed. Aḥmad Muhammad Shākir et al., 20 vols., Cairo 1416/1995
  • al-Musnad, 6 vols, Beirut, 1389/1969.
  • al-Musnad, ed. Ahmad Muhammad Shakir, Cairo 1368–75/1948–56.
  • Musnad al-imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, ed. Shu`ayb al-Arnaūṭ, et. al. 50 vols.  Beirut 1413–21/1993–2001.
  • Ṭalā`i al-Musnad. ed. Ahmad Muhaammad Shākir, Cairo: Maktab`ah al-Turath al-`Islami, XX vols. n.d. *

A Commentary on the Musnad was written by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hadi (d. Medina, 1138/1726) according to `Abd al-Qadir Ibn Badran, al-Madhal ila maühab al-imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Cairo n. d.), 246 = ed. Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Turki (Beirut 1401/1981), 473.

 Melchert, Christopher (Oxford University)

  • `Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal: How It Was Composed and What Distinguishes It from the Six Books' in Der Islam vol. 82 (2005), 32-51.

  • `Ahmad ibn Hanbal and the Qur'am' in Journal of Qur’anic Studies 6:2 (2004) Abstarct =

  • "Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. Baghdad, 241/855) was the central, defining figure of Sunnism in the earlier ninth century C.E. He was a major collector and critic of hadith, as well as stories of early renunciants, and his collected opinions would form the literary basis of the Hanbali school of law. Men would assert as a badge of orthodoxy that their creed was Ahmad’s (e.g. Muzani, Tabiri, Ash’ari). He famously resisted the Inquisition of Ma’mun and his successors, refusing to acknowledge that the Qur’an was created.

  • Ahmad’s ideas about the Qur’an are found in collections of his answers to questions (masa’il), in biographies (both of him personally and of his followers), and in his Musnad. They show a devotion above all to the liturgical use of the Qur’an; for example, how it should be recited aloud, how it should be integrated with the ritual prayer. He did not tend to infer the law directly from the Qur’an, but from hadith, and put together his own version of the text (qira’a), although it is not preserved. (The report that he assembled a huge Qur’anic commentary is doubtful). Therefore, it was not mainly as a record of Islamic law that Ahmad defended the transcendence of the Qur’an but more directly as the basis of Islamic piety."
     

Patton, W. M.,

  • Ahmed b. Hanbal and the Mihna, London, 1897.

 

Shāfi`ī, Abū  Abd-Allah Muhammad ibn Idrīs (150-204 = 767-820)

Muslim jurist and reputed `Father of Islamic Jurisprudence'. The Sunni Shāfi`ī school was based on his legal, doctrinal teachings.

  • Kitāb al-Umm, 7 vols, Cairo, 1321/1903.
  • Kitab al-umm, Beirut: Dar al-Fikr, n.d.
  • Risāla ("The Epistle"), Cairo, 1358/1940.

  • Al-Shafi'i's Risala fi Usul al-Fiqh : Treatise on the Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence. Trans. Majid Khadduri, John Hopkins Press, 1961 + 2nd ed. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1997. 379pp.*

 

 

Mālik ibn Anas = Abū  `Abd-Allah Malik ibn Anas / ibn Malik ibn 'Amr al-Asbahi (c. 94-179 = c. 716-796).

 Author of the first major law book al-Muwaṭṭā', the Mālikī school of law trace their roots to him.

During the first/seventh century and early part of the second/eighth century compilation was limited to writing down those baáĩth in oral circulation. Later scholars started grouping hadītb under titles indicating their subject matter. This type was called musanna/, i.e. classified or systemized compilation.
Although Ibn Jurayj, (d. 150/767), and Ma'mar b. Rashid, (d. 153/770), were the first compilers of musannaf, yet the best-known work of this type is al-Muwaṭṭā' of Mālik b. Anas, founder of the second major law school, which also contains opinions and legal decisions.
The Muwaṭṭā ՝ was revised several times over forty years by its author, who flourished in Medina, having studied earlier with renowned scholars there, and in turn taught those revised works to his disciples. Mālik's revised work survived in some different versions through his disciples, notably Yahya b. Yahya al-Laythĩ of Cordoba (d. 732/848), and of Muhammad b. al-Hasan al-Shaybãnĩ (d. 189/804), the well known Hanafī authority. Yahya's version is the more popular.
The Muwaṭṭā's sixty-one chapters, here called " books " (sing, kitāb), are arranged according to the categories of the religious law, each dealing with one topic such as purity, prayers, ŗakāh (alms-tax), fasting and so on. Chapters are divided into sub-chapters (sing. bãb). A bah may begin with a relevant hadīth followed by comments, or with a question addressed to Mālik followed by his answer, either alone or supported by a hadīth or a Quranic verse, or by an opinion of a Companion or a Follower, or by the custom prevailing among the people of Medina.
Among the 1,720 hadītb existing in Yahya's version, which include 613 statements attributed to Companions and another 285 attributed to Followers, there are 61 without an isnād, some with interrupted isnāds and 222 in which the narrating Companion is not mentioned. Some scholars later discovered complete isnãds for those hadīth.
Alarmed by the increasing circulation of spurious hadīth, Mālik and many other theologians of this period denounced, like those before them, the promoters of such falsehood, thus enlarging the foundations of the science of Hadtth criticism and adding to its terminology. Mālik himself is credited with the following statement, which approaches a classification of muhaddiths (transmitters of Hadīth} :
Knowledge should not be accepted from four categories [of transmitters], but may be received from others. It should not be accepted from persons advocating heretical views, or from idiots, no matter what they may claim to know, or from those who lie to people, even if they may not be expected to lie about the Prophet, or from persons of integrity and righteousness who are not sufficiently accurate." (CHAL 1:272-3).

Editions:

  • al-Muwaṭṭā', ed. Muhammad Fu'ād 'Abd al-Baqī, Cairo 1952-3;
  • Muwaṭṭā' Imam Mālik, recensions of   Yahya b. Yahya al-Laythī. Dar al-Nafa'is, 1390/1970 + 1414/1994.   (756pp.).
  • Beirut 1985; ed. 'Abd al-Majīd Turkī, Beirut 1994
  • al-Muwaṭṭā' al-Shaybanī, Muwaţţa' Muhammad.
  • al-Muwaṭṭā'. Edited by Fārūrq Sa'd. Beirut: Dar al-Afaq al-Jadida, 1981.
  • Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas, The First Formulation of Islamic Law Imam Malik ibn Anas, Translated by Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley, London and New York:  Kegan Paul International' ( 465pp.). *
    Al-Muwatta, Imam Malik trans. `A'isha `Abdurrahman at-Tarjama and Ya`qub Johnson, Norwich: The Diwan Press, 1982. ( 548pp.). *
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Muwatta

al-Ṭabarī, Abū  Ja`far Muhammad b. Jarīr, (d. 310/923)

EI2 vol. X: ADD;

        A massive, early Sunni Tafsīr work that has been of foundational importance for many subsequent Qur'ān commentators.

  • Jāmi’ al-bayān fî tafsīr al-Qur’ān. 30 vols. in 12  [Cairo] Bulaq: Amriyya, 1323-29/1905-1911.
  • Tahdhīb
al-āthār: Musnad `Abd-Allah ibn `Abbās. ed. Maḥmud A. Shākir., Cairo: Matba`at al-Madani,  1982.
  • Tahdhīb al-āthār: Musnad `Ali ibn `Abī Ṭālib. ed. Maḥmud ibn Shākir., Cairo: Matba`at al-Madani,  1982.
  • Tahdhīb al-āthar: Musnad 'Umar bin al-Khaţţab. Edited by Mahmud ibn Shākir.Cairo: Maţba'at al-Madanī, 1983.

  • al-Misri, Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (d.769/1368)

    • Reliance of the Traveller: The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law Umdat Al-Salik.  Trans. Noah Ha Mim Keller.  Beltsville, Maryland, USA.,: Amana Publications. 1991, revised ed. 1994. (Arabic + English text, 1232+2pp.).*

    Muhammad b. Sa`d `Abd al-Baqi al-Zurqani (d. 1122/1710).

    • Sharḥ al-Zurqānī`alā Muwaṭṭa'  al-Imam Mālik, Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya, 1990.

     

    Ibn Ḥajar al-`Asqalānī, Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn `Alī  (d. 852 AH/1449 CE)

    • Fatḥ al-Bārī bi-Sharḥ al-Bukharī,  17 vols. Cairo: 1321-2/19      

    • Fatḥ al-Bārī fi Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukharī.  18 vols. Cairo: al-Mustafa al-Babi al-Halabi, 1379/1959. +
    • Fatḥ al-Bārī Sharḥ  Ṣaḥīḥ  al-Bukharī,  vol. 1 [= Muqaddamah] +13 + 2 [Index ] (= 16) vols. Beirut: Dar al-

  • Tawãlī al-Ta'sīs bi- Ma'ālī Ibn Idrīs. Cairo, 1301/1883.
  • Marātib al-Mudallisīn. Cairo, 1322/1904.
  • al-Isāba fī Tamyīz al-Sahāba. 4 vols. Cairo, 1358/1939
  • Bulūgh al-Marām min Adillat al-Aḥkām, ed. R. M. Riḍwān. Cairo, 1954.
  • Kitab Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb... 12 vols.  Ḥaydarābād: Da'irat al-ma`arif al-nizamiyyah, 1325-7 / 1907-9.
  • Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb., Rep. 12 vols. Beirut:  ADD., XXXX/1968.
  • Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb., Rep. 12 vols. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya., 1415/ 1994. 68.
  • Subul al-salām, sharḥ Bulūgh al-marām: min adillat al-aḥkām. Qūbilat hādhhi al-tab' 'alā jumlat nusakh mukhtalifat wa-sahahat wa-'alaqa ilayhā bi-ma'rifat lajnat min al-'ulamā. 4 vols in 2., Cairo : ADD., 1353-4/ 1954-55 ( viii, 350; 368; 424; 359 pp.).
  • Lisān al-Mīzān, 10 vols., ed. Muhammad 'Abd al-Rahmān al-Mura'shalī, Beirut: Dar ihya' al-Turāth al-'Arabī, 1995.
  • URL: http://www.al-islam.org/sources/

     

  • al-Suyuţî, Jalal al-Din (d.911/1505).

    • al-Durr al-Manthũr ft tafslr al-Ma'thur, 6 vois, Cairo, 1314/1896.

    •  al-La'āli al-maşnū
      'a fi-'l-ahādith al-mawdũ'a, 2 vols, Cairo, 1352/1933.

    •  al-Itqān fī 'Ulūm al-Qur'ān, 2 parts in 1, Cairo, 1354/1935

    • Tanwir al-Hawālik, Sharḥ 'alā Muwaţţa' Mālik: see Mālik.

     Muhammad `Ajaj al-Khatib

    • Abū  Hurayra Rawiyyat al-Islam,(= A`lam al-`Arab No. 126), Dar al-Kitab, 1985.

    'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulsī (d. 1143/1730)

    • Dhakha'ir al-mawarīth fi'l-dalālah 'alā mawãdī al-Ḥadĩth, Cairo, 1934, 4 vols.

    • Dhakha'ir al-mawarīth fi'l-dalālah 'alā mawãdī al-Ḥadĩth, ed.  `Abd-Allah Mahmud Muhammad `Umar. 3 vols. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya. 1419/1998.*

    •  

    • This work "treats the Six Books and al-Muwattā', arranges in alphabetical order the names of the Companions through whom hadīth are traced, and quotes, under the name of each Companion, the aṭrāf of his hadīth, also arranged alphabetically, followed by their references. The total of hadīth quoted in this work is 12,302, derived from 1,131 Companions including 129 women." (CHAL 1:ADD).
       

    al-Khatib al-Tibrizi, Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah ( fl. 1337 ADD HERE).

    • Mishkat al-Masabih; English translation with explanatory notes by James Robson. Lahore, S. M. Ashraf [1963-1965].

     

    Secondary Sources on Hadith and Sunni Law

    Hadîth online

    GENERAL

    Abbot, N.,

    • Studies in Arabic Literary Papyri, vol. III, Chicago, 1967.

    'Alî b. 'Abdallah (al-Madĩnĩ),

    • 'Ilal al-Hadīth wa-ma'rifat al-rijāl, ed. A. M. A. al Qala'jl, Aleppo, 1400/1981.   

    al-Baghdādī,

    • al-Kifāya fl 'ilm al-riwaya, Hayderabad, 1357/1938.

    • Taqyĩd al-'ilm, ed, Y. al-'Ishsh, Damascus, 1974.


    Burton, John,

    • 'Those are the high-flying cranes', JSS 15, 2, 1970.*

    •  'The meaning of ihşan', JSS, 19, l, 1974.

    •   Collection of the Qur'ān, Cambridge, 1977.*

    •  'The interpretation of Ķ 87:6-7', Der Islam, Band 62, Heft 1, 1985.

    •  Abū  'Ubaid's Kitāb al-nāsikh wa-'l-mansukh, Gibb Memorial Trust, Cambridge, 1987. *

    • The sources of Islamic Law, Edinburgh, 1990.*

    •  An Introduction to the Hadîth. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994. *

    Brunschvig, R. 

    • 'Les usul al-fiqh Imamites a leur stade ancien (Xe et XIe siècles)', in Le Shī'isme I marnate (Paris, 1970), pp. 201-13

     

    Dickinson, Eerik

    • The Development of Early Sunnite Hadith Criticism: The Taqdima of Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi (240/854–327/938), Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001).  156pp.

    Guillaume, Α.,

    • Islam, Harmondsworth, 1954.*

    • The Life of Muhammad, Oxford, 1955.
       

    Juynboll, G. H. A.,

    • Muslim Tradition. Studies in chronology, provenance and authorship of early hadîth. Cambridge: CUP, 1983.

    • The Authenticity of the Tradition Literature, Discussions in Modern Egypt, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1969. *


    Muslim, b. al-Hajjāj,

    • al-Sahīh.


    al-Nawawī,

    • Sharh Sahīh Muslim, on margin of: al-Qasţallănl, Irshăd al-Sărî li-Sharh Sahīh al-Bukharī, 12 vols, Cairo, 1326/1908.

    Patton, W. M.,

    • Ahmed b. Hanbal and the Mihna, London, 1897.

    al-Qasirm,

    • Qawă'id al-Tahdīth, Cairo, 1380/1961.
       

    Ibn Qutayba,

    • Ta'wll mukhtalif al-Hadīth, Cairo, 1387/1966. al-RāzI, al-Tafsir al-Kablr, 32 parts in 16, Teheran, 1970.
       

    Goldziher, Ignaz

    • GS = Gesammelte Schriften, ed. J. Desomogyi, 6 vols., Hildesheim 1967-73

    • MS = Mohammedanische Studien, 2 vols., Halle 1888-90; trans., C.R. Barber and S.M. Stern, Muslim studies, London 1967-72

    • Richtungen = Die Richtungen der islamischen Koranauslegung, Leiden 1920; repr. 1970

    •  Muslim Studies, 2 vols, trans. C. R. Barber and S. M. Stern, London, 1971.

    •  Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law, trans. A. and R. Hámori, Princeton, 1981.

    Juynboll, G. H. A.:

    • Muslim Tradition. Studies in chronology, provenance and authorship of early hadîth. Cambridge: CUP, 1983.

     

    Motzki, Harald

    • HADITH. 2003. 2003. (c.380 p., includes 6 studies translated from German, 1 translated from French and 1 translated from Arabic ) (The Formation of the Classical Islamic World 28). Hadith is understood here in its broader meaning as the bulk of the texts which contain information on the prophet Muhammad and his Companions, having the form of transmissions from them. The reliability of this material as a source for early Islam is still a highly debated issue. This selection of articles presents the different points of view in this debate and the varying methodological approaches with which scholars trained in modern secular sciences have tried to find a solution to the problem.

    Wensinck, Arent Jan. et. al.,

    • Wensinck, Arent Jan (ed.): Concordance et indices de la Tradition musulmane. Leiden 1936-1988,+ Rep..1992.
    • Concordance = Concordance et indices de la tradition musulmane, 8 vols., Leiden:  E.J.Brill,  1936-79.
    • Repr. 8 vols, in 4, Leiden:  E. J. Brill, 1992
    • Handbook  =  A handbook of early Muhammadan tradition, Leiden:  E. J. Brill 1927
    •  : A Handbook of Early Muhammadan Tradition, alphabetically arranged. Leiden 1927; repr. 1971.
    •  

    Graham, W.A

    • Beyond the written word. Oral aspects of scripture in the history of religion, Cambridge and New York 1989 *

    Ibn al-Salah,

    • 'Ulū
      m al-Hadīth, Madina, 1386/1966.
       

    Kister, M. J.

    ·  `Haddithu 'an israila we-la haraja: a Study of an Early Tradition,` IOS 2: 215-39. *

    · 1988 `Legends in Tafsīr and Hadīth Literature: the Creation of Adam and Related Stories,’ in Rippin, ed., Approaches to the History of the Interpretation of the Qur'ān, 82-114.    *

    · `On the Papyrus of Wahb b. Munabbih,’   BSOAS 37:  545-71.*

    · `The Sirah Literature," in Beeston et al., eds., CHAL 1:  352-57.*

    Peters, F. E.

    • The Hajj: The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.*
    • "The Quest of the Historical Muhammad." International Journal of Middle East Studies 23 (1991): 291-315.
       

    Powers, David S.

    • Studies in Qur'an and Hadith : the formation of the Islamic law of inheritance.  Berkeley : University of California Press, c. 1986.

    Robson, J,

    • 'The isnād in Muslim tradition', Trans. Glasgow University Oriental Society, xv, 15-26.
    • "Ibn Ishaq's Use of Isnād." Bulletin of the John Rylands' Library 38 (1965): 449-65.
    • trans. An Introduction to the Science of Tradition: Being Al-Madkhal ila ma'rifat al-Iklĩl by Al-Hăkim Abu `Abdallah Muhammad b. `Abdallāh al-Naisābūri. London: The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1953.
    • trans. "Introduction." Mishkat al-Masabih, by Muhammad ibn cAbd Allah al-Rhaub al-Tibrizī, l.i-xx. 4 vols. Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1963-4.
    • "The isnad ın Muslim Tradition." Transactions of the Glasgow University Oriental Society 15 (1953-4): 15-26.
    • "Muslim Tradition - the Question of Authenticity." Memoirs and Proceedings, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 93 (1951-2): 84-102.
    • "Standards Applied by Muslim Traditionalists." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 43 (1961): 459-79.
    • "Tradition: Investigation and Classification." Muslim World 41 (1951):98֊1 12.

    Schacht, J.,

    • Origins of Muhammadan jurisprudence, Oxford, 1950.

    Şiddiqi, Muhammad Zubayr.

    • Hadlth Literature, Calcutta, 1961.
    • Hadith Literature: Its Origin, Development, & Special Features. 1961. Reprinted, Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993.

    Speight, R. Marston.

    • 'The Function of՝ hadilh as Commentary on the Qur'an, as Seen in the Six Authoritative Collections." In Approaches to the History of the Interpretation of Lhe Qur'an, edited by Andrew Rippin, pp. 63-81. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
    • "The Will of Sa`d b. a. Waqqãs: The Growth of a Tradition." Der Islam: Zeitschrift für Geschichte un Kultur des islamischen Orients 50 (1973): 249-67.

    Talmon, R.

    • Review of Muslim Tradition. Studies in Chronology, Provenance and, Authorship of Early Hadith by G. H. A. Juynboll. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 11 (1988): 248-57.

     

    Wensinck, Arent Jan:

    • A Handbook of Early Muhammadan Tradition, alphabetically arranged. Leiden 1927; repr. 1971.
    •  (ed.): Concordance et indices de la Tradition musulmane. Leiden 1936-1988, 
    • Concordance et indices de la tradition musulmane. 8 vols. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1936-88.*
    • Rep. 8 vols in 4 1992. *

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    CHAL vol.1 Ch. 11 p. 291.

    was sought out by Basran scholars for his written collection of some thousand Traditions of Muhammad. 'Abdullah b. 'Umar (d. 74/673) dictated Hadtth to two of his sons and two of his clients, Salim and especially Nafi* b. Hurmuz (d. 117/735), all four of whom were major traditionists.

    The Medinan Jābir b. 'Abdullah al-AnsārĪ (d. 78/697) had a written collection of Tradition that was used by Mujāhid b. Jabr of Mecca.

    Abū  Salāmah 'Abdullah b. 'Abd al-Rahmān (d. 94/712), one of the "seven scholars" of Medina, dictated some of his written collections even to schoolboys.

    'Urwah b. al-Zubayr (d. 94/712), active first in his native Hijaz, travelled to Egypt and Syria to the court of'Abd al-Mālik. His interests included Traditions, campaigns, the life of Muhammad, law and reports (Hadīth, maghāŗī, strah ^ fiqh and akhbār}. He dictated from his manuscripts and handed his campaign collection to his son Hishām for collation. He burned his law manuscripts in 63/683, an act he later regretted.
    Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, where many Companions and Successors had settled, produced their own ranking scholars.

    The Yemenite Ibn Maymun al-Awdĩ (d. 74/693) settled in Kufa and transmitted his collections of Hadīth from 'Umar, 'Alî and 'Abdullah b. Mas'Ūd. He wrote on historical subjects on which Ibn Ishāq drew later.

    The Kufan critic of Tradition, Ibrahim b. Yazïd al-Nakha'î (d. 95/714), preferred transmission from memory. He nevertheless permitted the use of manuscripts and commended them to those of weak memories "on whose clothes and lips were ink stains".6

    The Kufan Sa'Id b. Jubayr (d. 95/714), Hadīth scholar and Quranic commentator, wrote and dictated his Tafsĩr to his fellow citizen and scholar Dahhāk b. Muzāhim (d. 105/723). His Hadīth collection was later drawn on by Ibn Ishaq.

    The encyclopaedic Kufan scholar and courtier Abū  'Amr 'Āmir al-Sha'bî (d. c. 110/728), though proud of his memory, conceded that "the best traditionist was the doftar" (or manuscript) and "the book was the register of knowledge".7

    Basra's leading scholars of the period included Anas b. Mālik, Hasan al-Başrî and Abū  Qilabah (d. 105/724).

    Syria was proud of Khālid b. Ma'dān (d. 104/722) and Makhūl al-Shāmī (d. c. 112/730). Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrï's early listing of ranking scholars consists of Sa'ïd b. al-Musayyib of Medina, Abū  'Amr 'Amir al-Sha'bī of Kufa, Hasan al-Basrĩ and Makhūl al-Shāmī of Syria.
     

    Many of the above-mentioned scholars and Hadīth scholars found favour with Umayyad caliphs and their governors. 'Uthmān b. 'Affan (24—31/644—56) used Hadīth sparingly, but is listed as a Hadīth scholar. Mu'äwiyah (40-60/660-80) wrote some Traditions from Muhammad and