Hadith

Introduction
Development and early transmission
- Emergence of hadiths as a literary form
- Sectarian differences
Regional dispersion, writing, collection, and canonization
Hadith sciences (ʿilm al-ḥadīth)
- Development and evolution of Hadith sciences
- Qualifications of transmitters and classifications of hadiths
- Hadith and other areas of Muslim life
- Reception of Hadith by Western academics
Hadith and contemporary Muslim discourse

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Ṣaḥīḥ matn al-kutub as-sittah ʿilm al-ḥadīth isnād 99 names of God Sunnah Qurʾān

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al-Tirmidhī

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Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq

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Ibn Kathīr

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Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj

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