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Tadwin al-Hadith

Authors(s): Rasul Ja'fariyan

Publisher(s): al-Tawhid Islamic Journal

Table of Contents

Tadwin al-Hadith Part 1: Documentation and Recording of Hadith in Written Form   3

Foreword 4

Documentation and Recording of Hadith in written form 4

The Imams of Shi’ah Muslims and the recording in written form of Hadith and its narration  5

The Shi’ah Muslims and the Task of Documenting Hadith 7

History of Hadith in the Sunni Muslims Community 9

The Causes for the Delay in Recording in Written form of Hadith 12

The so called Hadith Prohibiting documentation of Hadith 12

The Narration of Abu Hurayrah 14

Notes 15

Tadwin al-Hadith Part 2: A Historical Study of the Writing and Compilation of Hadith  17

[Foreward] 18

Ahadith of the holy Prophet (S) on Recording in Writing of Hadith 18

Views of Some Companions Regarding the Writing of Ahadith 21

The Holy Quran and Writing 22

The Actual Reason behind the Prohibition on the Writing of Ahadith 22

The Opposition of Some Sahabah and Tabi’un to the Writing of Hadith 23

Book Besides the Book of God 25

Notes 27

Tadwin al-Hadith Part 3 30

[Foreward] 31

The Reasons Given for the Prohibition 31

The Consequences of Not Recording in Written form of Hadith 35

1. The Loss of a Great Many Ahadith 35

2. The Spread of Lies 36

3. The Narration of Meanings 38

4. The Divergence amongst Muslims 38

5. The Spread of Ra’y 39

The Prohibition on the Narration of Hadith 40

Notes 41

Bibliography 44

Tadwin al-Hadith Part 1: Documentation and Recording of Hadith in Written Form

This is first part of the article on Tadwin al-Hadith by Rasul Ja'fariyan. It deals with some of the issues related to the writing and documentation of Hadith and takes up extensively the issues in scholarly manners.

It indeed is an enjoyable amount of reading for people interested to know about Hadith in the Islamic literature.

Authors(s): Rasul Ja'fariyan

Translator(s): Muhammad Sarwar

Publisher(s): al-Tawhid Islamic Journal