Endowment of the Faithful with the Sciences of the Prophet’s Hadith

This book offers a simplified summary of the sciences of hadith ‘the tradition of sayings by the Prophet Mohamed, and of actions he did’, directed towards Omar al-Mukhtar University students. In it, its author sought simplicity of style and ease of expression, prefacing the book by acknowledging the virtue of learning hadith and the merit of its people. The book then goes on to cover the origins of the term ‘science of hadith’, the stages it went through, and the most important works written on it. It elaborates on the types of accounts, considering its methods, transmission classification as isolated ‘Ahad’ or consecutive ‘Mutawatir’ and its types in terms of acceptance, rejection, and the commonality between them, highlighting the narrator qualities and the conditions for their acceptance, and a general overview of the books on narrator invalidation and rectification and their levels. The book then moves on to the etiquettes of narration between the traditionist and the student of hadith, how to regulate it, and methods of bearing hadith. It then discusses the chain of narrators, its intricacies, and its types that range between the elevated, descending, and connected, and the narration of the seniors on the authority of the juniors, fathers from sons and vice versa, and the narration of peers, and precedence and succession. The book concludes with a chapter consisting of twenty-one topics covering the types of narrations, knowledge of the narrators and their ranks, those mentioned by their names, characteristics, titles, or nicknames, those attributed to other than their fathers, their history, class, and homeland.