Publisher’s Foreword

Dedication

Dr. Taha Husayn's Foreword

The Author’s Response

Definition of the Book

Narrating Hadith Through Denotation:

A General Word:

Introduction of the Second Edition 13

For Truth and History

Introduction To the Third Edition

Al-sunnah

Position of Sunnah in Religion:

Companions and Hadith Relating:

To Lie Against Messenger of Allah:

Fabricating Lies Against the Prophet After His Death:

The Companions Criticizing Each Other:

Narrating Hadith By Meaning and Disagreement Among Scholars:

Forms of Tashahhud:

Word of Monotheism:

Examples On Narrating Hadith By Meaning Hadith of Islam and Faith:

Hadith of Ali’s Sahifah:

Disadvantage of Narrating Hadith Through Meaning

Detriment of Narration Through Meaning Linguistically and Rhetorically

Narration in Islam

Composition of Hadith and Its Causes

Detriment of Tales and Talebearer:

The Abbasid State:

The Righteous Fabricators

Ka’b Al-ahbar: 245

Wahb Ibn Munabbih:

Abd Allah Ibn Sallam:

Ka’b and Umar:

Ka’b’s Cunning and Stratagem:

Some Companions Relating From Jewish Rabbis:

Political Stratagem

Ka'b and Mu'awiyah:

Masihiyyat in Hadith

Abu Hurayrah

Shaykh Al-mudirah:

His Imposture (tadlis)

First Narrator Accused in Islam:

His Reporting From Ka'b Al-ahbar:

Abu Hurayrah Follows the Umayyads:

Fabrication of Traditions Against Ali

Narrations of Great Companions

Ambiguous Traditions

The Twelve Caliphs:

Al-dajjal (impostor) 447

Tadwin Al-qur'an:

Revelation Scribes:

A Meditative Pause:

Tadwin Al-hadith: 468

Writing of Hadith Was Forcibly Done:

Stages of Changeability of Tadwin:

Effect of Delay in Tadwin:

The Shiah and Writing of Hadith

Parts of Khabar:

Best Care Was Given To Sanad:

Famous Hadith Books

Malik and His Muwatta’:

Al-bukhari and His Book

Muslim and His Book

Are Sahihayn Containing Most Correct Traditions?

Abu Dawud

Al-tirmidhi

Al-nasa’i

Musnad Ahmad

Ahmad Reporting From an Apostate Companion:

Jarh and Ta’dil

Reliability of the Companions

Adopting Reliability of All the Sahabah

Hypocrites Among Sahabah and Surat Al-tawbah:

Sorcery Hadith Is of Ahad:

Asking For Hadith Without Fiqh (and What the Traditionists Nicknamed With)

Conclusion

The Greatest Calamity Inflicted Islam:

Aspects of Preponderance Contain Contradiction:

Rules and Principles

Original Rules of Rituals and Transactions:

Bibliography

Light On the Muhammadan Sunnah Or Defence of the Hadith

Wahb Ibn Munabbih:
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It is stated by the historians that he was of a Persian origin, and that
his grandfather came to Yemen among those dispatched by Chosro for
aiding Yemen against Abyssinia, where they settled down and multiplied
by generation. Then they were known with the term ‘the sons’, i.e. sons
of the Persians, among whom we can refer to Tawus ibn Kaysan, the
well-known Follower.

The religion adopted by the forefathers of Wahb was that of the

Persians (Magianism or Zoroastrianism). When they resided at Yemen among
the Jews, they learnt from them the Jews’ customs and traditions with a
bit of the Christianity. He was able to speak in the Greek language,
with abundant knowledge taken from Ahl al-Kitab, but was inflicted with
insolvency. <span id="_anchor_254"></span>254

He lived contemporaneously with several Companions, and reported hadith
from them. Also from him many Companions used to report, among whom
being Abu Hurayrah, Abd Allah ibn Umar and Ibn Abbas, and others, who
were trustworthy among the Arabs.

Al-Imam Ahmad says that his father Munabbih was a Persian man dispatched
by Chosro toward Yemen, where he embraced Islam, and the son (Wahb) used
to frequent after him to his homeland after its being conquerred.
Following is one of his sayings: “I have read 72 of God’s scriptures!

In Tadhkirat al-huffaz al-Dhahabi said about him: He was the learned of
the people of Yemen. He was born in 34 H. And died in San’a in 110 H. Or
after that with one year or more. It is said that he died in 116 H.
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254. Muqaddimat Fath al-Bari, vol. II, p. 171.

255. Ibid. vol. II, p. 171.
