منهج النقد في علوم الحديث · Manhaj al-Naqd fī ʿUlūm al-Ḥadīth

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Contents

1. الْبَابُ الْأَوَّلُ: فِي التَّعْرِيفِ الْعَامِّ بِمُصْطَلَحِ الْحَدِيثِ · Book One: The General Definition of Hadith Terminology
2. الْبَابُ الثَّانِي: فِي عُلُومِ رُوَاةِ الْحَدِيثِ · Book Two: The Sciences of Hadith Narrators
3. الْبَابُ الثَّالِثُ: فِي عُلُومِ رِوَايَةِ الْحَدِيثِ · Book Three: The Sciences of Hadith Transmission
4. الْبَابُ الرَّابِعُ: فِي عُلُومِ الْحَدِيثِ مِنْ حَيْثُ الْقَبُولُ أَوِ الرَّدُّ · Book Four: Hadith by Acceptance or Rejection
5. الْبَابُ الْخَامِسُ: فِي عُلُومِ الْمَتْنِ · Book Five: The Sciences of the Matn
6. الْبَابُ السَّادِسُ: فِي عُلُومِ السَّنَدِ · Book Six: The Sciences of the Isnad
7. الْبَابُ السَّابِعُ: فِي الْعُلُومِ الْمُشْتَرَكَةِ بَيْنَ السَّنَدِ وَالْمَتْنِ · Book Seven: Sciences Common to Isnad and Matn
8. الْخَاتِمَةُ · Conclusion: Discussions and General Results

How to read

• Hadith criticism and the sciences of hadith. This map summarises one book alone: Manhaj al-Naqd fī ʿUlūm al-Ḥadīth by Nūr al-Dīn ʿItr (d. 1442H). No other author's material is mixed in.
• What is editorial rather than the book's own: the bracket labels, the English lines, the death dates of scholars ʿItr names, and fifteen places where an obvious digitisation error was corrected to the reading the printed book plainly carries (غلا to إلا، الترمت to التزمت، بصيفة to بصيغة، التسوة to التسوية، روا to راو، a missing بين، ول to ولو، عبد اله to عبد الله، المؤذن to المؤنن، اختلف to احتف، ويحتجن to ويحتج به، المعلةن to المعلة، النسخةن to النسخة، لمرء to المرء، and الحسن to الحس in the definition of the mutawātir, where ʿItr's own explanation of the clause shows he means sense perception). Everything inside the brackets otherwise reproduces the book's wording, unvocalized as the book prints it.
• The map follows the book's own arrangement: its seven abwāb, each divided into ʿItr's own fuṣūl, with the entries inside each faṣl in the order he treats them. Headings are his wording, not ours, with two exceptions: "Opening of Book Three" and "Opening of Book Seven" are the map's own labels, covering sections that sit in a bāb's opening discussion before its numbered chapters. They exist because the rendering drops any entry placed between a book heading and the first chapter heading under it, which had been silently hiding those three entries.
• What the English line is, and is not: it summarises ʿItr's discussion of that point, drawing on the paragraph around the quotation and sometimes on his footnotes. The Arabic beneath it is one anchoring sentence from that discussion, not the source of every word above it. So an English line will often say more than the Arabic directly under it, and that extra is still ʿItr, just from a few lines further along. Where the two ever genuinely conflict, the Arabic wins.
• Each entry reads in English first. The Arabic of the book sits directly under it as a sub-bullet, with its category label ([النَّصُّ] the text itself, [أَقْسَامُهُ] its divisions, [الْحُكْمُ] the ruling, [مِثَالٌ] an example, [التَّمْهِيدُ] the framing), so the whole map can be read without Arabic and the wording checked against the book when needed.
• Scholars ʿItr quotes inside the book (Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, Ibn Ḥajar, al-Ḥākim and others) are part of the book and stay. Later commentary on him is not, and is absent.