The history and importance of the Hadiths
Isnad and matn, transmission, collection, classification, the major collections, and Hadith in legal thinking.
Paper 2 Question 2 · compulsory 14 lessons
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Lessons
- P2-HADH-00 Hadith and Sunna: what the terms mean and how they differ
- P2-HADH-01 The parts of a Hadith: isnad and matn
- P2-HADH-02 Transmission in the Prophet's lifetime and among the Companions
- P2-HADH-03 Oral preservation and the earliest written records
- P2-HADH-04 Why Hadiths were collected: expansion, distance, and fabricated reports
- P2-HADH-05 The journeys of the scholars and the science of narrator criticism
- P2-HADH-06 Testing the isnad: continuity, character and memory
- P2-HADH-07 Testing the matn, and the classification sahih, hasan and da‘if (with mutawatir and ahad)
- P2-HADH-08 Musnad and musannaf: two ways of organising a collection
- P2-HADH-09 The six Sunni collections and their compilers
- P2-HADH-10 The four Shi‘a collections and differences of method
- P2-HADH-11 Hadith in legal thinking: relationship with the Qur'an, ijma‘ and qiyas; significance today
- P2-HADH-12 Module review and Paper 2 Q2 exam practice
- P2-HADH-13 Major themes across the Hadiths: the set passages and other similar passages
- P2-HAD-23 Comparing Hadiths: linking, contrasting and grouping the twenty shared from P2-HAD
Syllabus points covered
| Reference | Requirement |
|---|---|
| P2.T2.b1 | The history of the compilation of the Hadiths |
| P2.T2.b5 | The methods based on examination of the chain of transmitters (isnad) and the text (matn) to test reliability |
| P2.T2.b2 | The earliest collections |
| P2.T2.b3 | The main musnad and musannaf collections |
| P2.T2.b4 | The main compilers and their activities |
| P2.T2.b6 | The main features of the six collections of Sunni Hadiths and the four collections of Shi‘a Hadiths |
| P2.T2.b8 | Their use in legal thinking, and their relationship with the Qur'an, consensus (ijma‘) and analogy (qiyas) |
| P2.T2.b9 | Their significance in thought and action in Islam |
| P2.T2.b7 | The major themes of the Hadiths as contained both in the passages set for special study and in other similar passages |