Category: Hadith Verfication and Chains of Narrations Study
Connection/Link - اتِّصالُ الصُّفوف
"Ittisāl": the state of being connected and linked together. Original meaning: association, gathering. Opposite: disconnection, separation.
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Chain of transmission - إسْنادٌ
"Isnād": lifting something. It is derived from "sanad", which means a high place. "sunūd": attaching something to another. Other meanings: strengthening, assisting, conveying, protection.
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Hadīth authentication - تخْرِيجٌ
"Takhrīj": revealing, making prominent. It is derived from "khurūj", which originally means: leaving. Other meanings: interpretation, clarification.
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Hadīth - حَدِيث
"Hadīth": spoken speech, something new. It is derived from "hadāthah", which means modernity. Opposite: old.
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Agreed upon - مُتَّفَقٌ عَلَيْهِ
A Hadith that is narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim, who converge on the text and the Companion-narrator.
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Content of Hadīth - مَتْنٌ
"Matn": everything that becomes apparent. It is derived from "matānah", which means hardness. Other meanings: word, origin, stay.
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Authentication - تَصْحِيحُ
When a Hadith scholar judges a Hadith to be authentic for fulfilling the conditions of authenticity according to his personal reasoning.
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One living before and after Islam without seeing the Prophet - مُخَضْرَمٌ
Whoever lived before and after the coming of Islam and became a Muslim but did not see the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him.
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Marfou‘/Hadith attributed to the Prophet, may Allah"s peace and blessings be upon him - حديثٌ مَرْفُوعٌ
Any saying, deed, implicit approval, state, or attribute that is ascribed to the Prophet, may Allah"s peace and blessings be upon him.
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Inconsistent/Unsettled Hadith - حديثٌ مُضْطَرِبٌ
A Hadith with different, yet equally strong, narrations, so these narrations cannot be reconciled or weighed against each other.
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Hadith with two consecutive dropped narrators - حديثٌ مُعضَلٌ
A Hadith that has two or more successive narrators dropped form its chain of narrators.
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Memorized/Well-secured - حديثٌ مَحْفوظٌ
A Hadith that is narrated by a trustworthier narrator in contradiction to a narrator who is less trustworthy.
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Young Followers/Young Successors - صِغارُ التَّابِعِينَ
Narrator who did not live during the Prophet's lifetime and narrated from the young Companions.
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Indirectly Elevated Hadith - المَرْفُوعُ حُكْماً
A Companion's statement or deed that evidence leads to the presumption that it originated from the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, by way of inference.
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Reported news - خبر
A piece of news liable to be either true or false.
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Authentic as per the conditions of Al-Bukhari and Muslim - صَحِيحٌ على شَرْطِهِما
Judging that the narrators of a certain Hadith are the narrators accredited by Al-Bukhari and Muslim.
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