تاريخ النشر: 01/07/2002
الناشر: دار الساقي للطباعة والنشر
نبذة الناشر:The study of the origins, development and criticism of Hadith literature, as we have it today is essential in determining the extensive source of information about the history of pre-Islamic Arabia, early Islam, the development of Arabic literature and Islamic law, as well as serving as a source of legislation ...for the Muslim world. The science is also very useful in providing insight into the thought processes and endeavours of early Islamic scholars, as well as to the many key theological, political and cultural movements that developed throughout the ages.
It treats the subject of Hadith from all its different prespectives, such as the historical beginnings of the science, the onest of Hadith literature, compilation of Hadith woks, the terminology and methodology within the science iteslf, authenticity and weakness of tradition, and the whole phenomenon of fabrication, t mention but a few of the topics elaborated in this work. The views of both classical as well as modern scholrs are protrayed, resuting in a effective overview of the science of Hadith.
This same publication also includes a translation of the oldest Shi'a Ithna 'Ashari text written on the science and contestual study of Hadith-Dirayat Al-Hadith-bhy the renowned tenth-century scholar and jurist al-Shahid al-Thani. This is a short treatise on the science of Hadith, which although brief in length, was a pioneering and essential work of its time, by virtue of which this science came to be recorded in the first place, and which paved the way for all other works to come. إقرأ المزيد