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The hadith sciences ('Ilm al-Hadith, علم الحديث) refer to those studies which investigate and determine the authenticity of any given hadith and those which explain a hadith and search in the meanings of it's words and so on.

The hadith sciences ('Ilm al-Hadith, علم الحديث) are a field of study in Islamic scholarship, dedicated to investigating and classifying the veracity of existing ahadith. It is used by Muslim scholars in the study and evaluation of the Islamic hadith.

This field of study splits into two categories:

  1. علم الحديث رواية Ilm Hadith Riwaya
  2. علم الحديث دراية Ilm Hadith Diraya

The first category deals with the Matn, and is intended to keep the sayings safe from mistakes during transference. It deals with the Matn's meanings and it deals with explaining it, and so on... The second deals with the sanad, and the states of the narrators whether they are trustworthy or liars etc.

Further reading

  • "Hadith studies" on Wikipedia
  • "ʿilm al-ḥadīth" in the Encyclopedia Brittanica
  • Al Kifayahtu Fi Ilm Al Riwayat (الكفاية في علم الرواية للخطيب البغدادي)
  • Nasb Al Raya Li Ahadeeth Al Hidayah نصب الراية لأحاديث الهداية للزيلعي
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Can any hadith truly be called sahih anymore?

As is known, the majority of hadith literature available today was compiled well after the death of the prophet, due in part to the nigh-unmanageable number of questionable or downright fabricated ahadith which were being narrated. The hadith…
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How many Sahih(Authentic) Hadith are there?

From the size of the major Hadith collections, I'd estimate that there are only around 80 thousand at most, including overlapping Hadith. Some links (quite unreliable) seem to put the number closer to 10 thousand unique Sahih(Authentic) Hadith. Is…
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What does Hadith Gharib (حديث غريب) mean?

Sheikh al-Albani many times says/describes Imam at-Tirmidhi's narrations as ghareeb (ling. strange). So What does Hadith Gharib (حديث غريب) mean? Does it mean that a hadith is weak?
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What is the difference between Al Idraj wal Wad' (الإدراج و الوضع)?

Al Idraj is a saying not of the Prophet's (May God's blessings and peace be upon Him), and is sometimes on the part of the narrator, either to clarify a word or to make a saying of the Prophet (May God's blessings and peace be upon Him) more…
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How scientific are Hadith sciences?

In Islam, we have the science of hadith (uloom al-Hadith) described on Wikipedia as: ...a number of religious disciplines used in the study and evaluation of the Islamic hadith. Judging from a Google search hadith science, a lot of people describe…
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Hadith verification Test Procedure

Most of the time, when reading the description of weak Hadiths (Take this Hadith as an example), I read that narrator x had weak memory or narrator x was not of a sound character. I have 2 questions which I'll will try to summarise in 2 separate…
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Is there a limit on how many oral transmitters a hadith can have?

Have the scholars of Hadith decided on the number of allowable oral transmitters between the Messenger of Allah and the writer of the Hadith before the Hadith is rejected simply for having too long of an oral chain? for example, if somebody orally…
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How much islamic knowledge and hadeeth has been lost throught the ages

I was told recently by a mufti that imam ahmad ibn hanbal memorised 1000000 saheeh hadeeths. Now i dont know of any sources where there are 1000000 saheeh hadeeths. Bukhari apparently has approximatly 2000 saheeh hadeeths. So how much knowledge…
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How many mutawatir hadis?

Reading from the thread How many ahad hadith are there in Sahih Bukhari? and i searched other questions i want to know how many mutwatir hadis exist?
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are there hadiths that are accounted as weak or fabricated just because of their texts while having good chains of transmission?

are there hadiths that are accounted as weak or fabricated just because of their texts while having good chains of transmission? if yes, can you give examples? as i see from these texts, hadith transmitters themselves can be accounted as weak or…
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Difference between ﺃﺧﺒﺮﻧﺎ & ﺣﺪﺛﻨﺎ

Within isnads, the two phrases ﺣﺪﺛﻨﺎ & ﺃﺧﺒﺮﻧﺎ can be found. The latter obviously means that a narrator directly received knowledge of something from his teacher. Is the former considered of equal value?
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