One of the important issues in understanding hadith is to consider the defective traditions and distinguishing them from sounds traditions. Knowing defective traditions needs exact information and necessary expertise in the knowledge of hadith, and only the specialists in the science of hadith and scholars who are completely familiar with the documents and texts of traditions can distinguish th...

One of the people whose views on tradition caused much controversy is Mahmood Abu Riyyah. In his book Adhwaala al-Sunnah al-Muhammadiyyah he discusses certain issues which could not be acceptable to the Sunni students of hadith and, therefore, they accused him of opposing tradition. In contrast, his views on the Sunni circles of hadith have been greatly welcomed in the Shiite world, especiall...

When mystics and Sufis began to write down their spiritual experience, in addition to the verses of Quran, they took advantage of Hadith as well, and auspiciously and widely benefited from it in their cryptic literature. One of the traditions to which this group has vastly referred was the Hadith: “He who loves and remains chaste and conceals his secret and dies, dies a martyr.” The content of ...

The study and investigation of the credibility of reliable tradition due its many instances in the sources of Shiite hadith has a remarkable importance. In a general view the Shiite scholars can be divided into two groups. First, a group that admits the credibility of reliable hadith, which is divided further into those who give absolute credit to reliable tradition and those who acknowledge ...

Gautier Juynboll is among the most prominent Western hadith scholars, who has been frequently quoted by many Western scholars. He dates the concept of the Prophetic tradition back to the late first century AH, arguing that the starting point of identifying the concept of tradition with the Prophetic tradition is the late first century AH. To prove his hypothesis, he refers to the will Umar made...

One of the most commonly cited traditions among Sufis is the tradition of "Kanz-e Makhfi". It has been valued as a repeated and many stated prophetic tradition before the relgious jurists. However, many doubts have been cast on the authenticity and documentation of this tradition. Though inadequate, the present discussion attempts to study and judge both the content and the authenticity of this...

Sheikh Nasir al-Din Albāni, is one of the most influential and prolific Sunni authors and a student of Hadith and a follower of the sect of Salafiah, who offered a new approach to textual criticism. He follows certain principles in editing and evaluating hadith and textual criticism. Albāni in the study of each hadith first looks for the text of hadith in reliable books and once he trust the ...

The Book “the Secret of Prophet Mohammad’s Midnight Journey to the Seven Heavens in Explanation of Al-Mi’raj Hadith” is written by Ayatollah Sa’adatparvar. Analyzing the discourse of a part of its introduction, his recognition method about this hadith has been investigated in this paper. The paper aims at investigating the particular discourse pattern of the author in analyzing the document of ...