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

Al-tirmidhi
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His name is Abu ‘Isa Muhammad ibn ‘Isa al-Tirmidhi al-Darir. He

was born in Tirmidh in 209 H. and died in it in 279 H. Ibn al-Athir is
reported to have said: In Sunan al-Tirmidhi, not in other books, there
is a reference to madhahib (schods, of thought), manners of inference,
and manifestation of kinds of hadith, namely the sahih, hasan and gharib
(odd).

When compiling his book, he epitomized in it so elegantly the ways of
hadith, elucidating its sorts, whether being sahih or weak or
disapproved. But his book al-Jami’ al-sahih contained so many
disapproved traditions. <span id="_anchor_606"></span>606

Al-Hafiz Ibn Rajab, in Sharh ‘Ilal al-Tirmidhi, stated that al-Tirmidhi
reported in his book the correct (sahih) hadith and good (hasan) one,
(which is lower in degree than the sahih having some weakness, beside
the gharib (odd) one. In the strange traditions he cited there are found
some disapproved ones, particularly in the chapter (kitab) on al-fada’il
(merits), but he often demonstrates this never letting it go unseen. I
have no knowledge that he has reported from some narrator upon whose
falsity there was consensus, any hadith through a single isnad, but he
might report a hadith narrated through different turuq (ways) or in its
isnad there being a narrator known of falsification. Thus he reported
hadith of Muhammad ibn Sa’id al-Maslub and Muhammad ibn al-Sa’ib
al-Kalbi. Yes, he might report from narrators known of bad memory or
whose narrations being misconceived, but he used to manifest this fact,
never keeping silent about it. Abu Dawud shared him in reporting from
many narrators of this class with keeping silent regarding their
traditions, like Ishaq ibn Abi Farwah. Al-Tirmidhi used to report hadith
from the accurate thiqah (trustworthy), and from that of little dubiety
and that of much dubiety, and that commonly known of misconception, with
demonstrating this.

It is also known that al-Tirmidhi was the first among traditionists in
classifying the hadith into sahih, hasan (good), da’if (weak), while
before his time such classification was not known.

606. Ikhtisar ulum al-hadith, p. 18.
