Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- 1 A tentative chronology of the origins of Muslim tradition
- 2 The role of qāḍīs in the spreading of traditions
- 3 The man kadhaba tradition and the prohibition of lamenting the dead. An investigation into mutawātir traditions
- 4 An appraisal of muslim ḥadīth criticism. Rijāl works as depositories of transmitters' names
- 5 ‘Accepting traditions means knowing the men’
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Appendix III
- Appendix IV
- Appendix V
- Bibliography
- Index (glossary)
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- 1 A tentative chronology of the origins of Muslim tradition
- 2 The role of qāḍīs in the spreading of traditions
- 3 The man kadhaba tradition and the prohibition of lamenting the dead. An investigation into mutawātir traditions
- 4 An appraisal of muslim ḥadīth criticism. Rijāl works as depositories of transmitters' names
- 5 ‘Accepting traditions means knowing the men’
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Appendix III
- Appendix IV
- Appendix V
- Bibliography
- Index (glossary)
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- Muslim TraditionStudies in Chronology, Provenance and Authorship of Early Hadith, pp. 254 - 273Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1983