Category · 3 articles
Hadith
Articles on the Prophetic tradition — classification, methodology, and key narrations.
Classification of Ḥadīth
The grades of Ḥadīth authenticity — Ṣaḥīḥ, Ḥasan, and Ḍaʿīf — and the criteria scholars use to classify every narration.
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Explaining Weak Ḥadīth
What makes a Ḥadīth weak, why weak narrations appear in Islamic literature, and what the scholarly guidance is on whether and how they can be used.
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Hadith — Traditions of the Prophet ﷺ
What Ḥadīth is, why it ranks second only to the Qur'an, and how the science of isnād and matn determines a narration's reliability.
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