Book Summary
"?ad?th are the documents recording the words and actions of the Prophet Mu?ammad. Originally an enormous and amorphous corpus, Muslim scholars of the third/ninth century separated the "?ad?th they regarded as true from those they held to be forgeries, producing collection of "?ad?th which still command the respect of Muslims today. Ibn Ab? ??tim al-R?z? (240/854-327/938) was one of the most prominent exponents and practitioners of "?ad?th criticism. He left a copious written legacy, including his famous "Taqdima, a biographical dictionary of the early "?ad?th critics. The "Taqdima reveals Ibn Ab? ??tims's vision of the critic and gives insight into the mechanism of "?ad?th criticism. It also provides a platform for the examination of the basic intellectual orientation of the "?ad?th critics and their conflicts with their opponents.
Book Details
| Book Name | The Development Of Early Sunnite ?Ad?th Criticism: The Taqdima Of Ibn AB? Tim Al-R?z? (240/854-327/938) |
| Author | Eerik Dickinson, E. Dickinson |
| Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers (Jan 2001) |
| ISBN | 9789004118058 |
| Pages | 146 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 4936 |
