How We Know Early Hadīth Critics Did Matn Criticism and Why It's So Hard to Find

Abstract Western scholars generally agree that early hadīth critics limited their authentication of hadīths to examining isnāds. The argument that these critics took the matn into account has relied on material of dubious reliability or on works produced after the formative period of the Sunni hadīt...

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Main Author: Brown, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2008
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 2008, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 143-184
Further subjects:B MATN CRITICISM
B MUNKAR
B HADITH FORGERY
B AL-BUKHARI
B HADITH CRITICISM
B MUSLIM B. AL-HAJJAJ
B ISNAD
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