Colleges

Course Topics:
First: Biographies of the narrators of the chain of narration, which include:
Sources of Translation Studies (Books of Jarh wa Ta'deel in its Four Sections: Books of Early Critics in their types, Compendiums with chains of transmission, Compendiums without chains of transmission, Abridged books).
B- Required elements for translation, and their arrangement.
The briefest translation and its degrees.
d- Methods of presenting critics' statements.
H- Rulings of the later scholars and their position in translation.
Second: Judging a Hadith and its Steps:
❖ Studying a narration whose authentication is based on a chain of narrators, and a biography of its narrators. There are two methods for this:
Method One: Build the study on the authenticated attribution and summarize its judgment, then move on to the other methods mentioned in the hadith verification:
Examine the conditions of all the narrators of the chain in their aforementioned biographies, and state any absolute or conditional weakening of the narrator, if found.
● Examine the condition of the chain of narration in terms of apparent or hidden connection and disconnection to verify its soundness from issues like tadlis (concealment of a narrator), hidden and apparent transmission (irsāl), and their consequences. To do this, one must refer to sources that focus on narrators hearing from each other and consult extensive biographical dictionaries of narrators.
● Preliminary ruling on ascription based on the totality of the study of narrators and consideration of connection and disconnection.
● Phrasing Used in Preliminary Rulings (Its narrators are trustworthy, its chain of transmission is connected, its narrators are trustworthy except so-and-so who is truthful but errs, or weak, or abandoned, in the chain of transmission is so-and-so and he is weak, or abandoned... etc.).
Consider the other methods of narration mentioned in the attribution and their effect on the chain of narration under study, as follows:
The text on the follow-ups regarding the weakness in the chain of narration, and the editing of the attribution's benefit from it.
Show the variation in narration methods, if any, by identifying the axis, mentioning the points of disagreement on it, who narrated each point from him, and perfecting the formulation of this in detail and summary, and distinguishing what disagreements occur on the primary axis from what occurs from the narrators from him and those below them in the chain of transmission.
Consider the statements of scholars in judging hadith, identify the intention of the critic's words, place each text in its relevant context, master the skills of transferring texts, and become familiar with the sources of critics' statements: books of questions, books of defects, books of men that mention hadith, and books of narration.
Judging a Hadith after considering other chains of narration, and the sayings of scholars regarding it, which includes determining the preferred opinion if there is disagreement, and the ruling on the chain of narration of the preferred opinion.
If the hadith has other chains of transmission, consider them by following the previous steps for the first chain.
Summary of the hadith's condition after considering all its chains of narration.