AL-HADITH 

Analysis

And an Overview

Prepared by:

A.S. Hashim, MD

Main Sources:

Sources of Hadith, Muhammad Al-Jalali.

Al-Saadiq and the Four Madh'habs, Asad Haidar.

Nahjul Balaaghah, English Translation of certain selections, Farouk Ebeid.

Introduction to Hadith, A. Rahman Doi.

Mish'kaat Al-Masabeeh, Translation by Fazlul Karim.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SUBJECT

PAGE

WHAT IS HADITH?............................................................................................

1

THE FORGED (FABRICATED) HADITH. .................................................................

1

COLLECTION OF THE HADITH BY THE SUNNI.......................................................

2

Collection during the 1st Century H...................................................................

2

Collection during the 2nd Century H..................................................................

2

Collection during the 3rd Century H..................................................................

2

Al-Bukhari, of Sahih Al-Bukhari.......................................................................

2

Muslim, of Sahih Muslim...............................................................................

2

Al-Nasaa'i, of Sahih Al-Nasaa'i........................................................................

2

COLLECTION OF THE HADITH BY THE SHI'A.......................................................

3

ALL ABOUT AHLUL BAYT..................................................................................

4

JA'FARI (SHIA) SOURCE OF HADITH....................................................................

4

HIGHLIGHTS OF COLLECTION OF HADITH, SHIA..................................................

5

Collection during the 1st Century H...................................................................

5

Collection during the 2nd Century H..................................................................

5

Collection during the 3rd Century H...................................................................

5

Collection during the 4th Century H...................................................................

5

THE GOLDEN CHAIN OF NARRATION..................................................................

6

MANNER OF COLLECTION OF HADITH.................................................................

6