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Sources of Hadith Narratives

Course Description: This course complements what students study from the sources of the Sunnah in the program's courses. While there they study its characteristics in terms of the science it was authored in, here they will study its characteristics and methodologies in terms of narration as its sources. Thus, male and female students in this course will become acquainted with the science of narration, the divisions of sources in terms of their authenticity and subject matter, how to benefit from them, how to review their narrations, and the impact of the classification type on narration.

Credit hours: 3

Objectives of the course :

Introducing students to sources of Hadith narration, their types, how to distinguish between them, and how to locate narrated Hadiths within each source, along with an understanding of the stages of Hadith classification and the era of narration.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
1- It shows the efforts of Hadith scholars in compiling and critiquing the Sunnah.
2- Mentions the sources of Hadith narration, their types, and the stages of their classification.
3. It identifies the categories of Sunnah sources, their importance, and the need for them.
4- Illustrates how to utilize narrative sources for hadith extraction and comparison of narrated traditions.
Skills:
1- Distinguishes the sources of Hadith narration in terms of their authenticity and subject matter.
2- Employs primary, secondary, and auxiliary sources of the Sunnah in collecting hadith methods and their narrations.
3. It is a contemporary research that adheres to quality standards using advanced technical methods.
Values, autonomy and responsibility:
Adheres to professional and academic ethical practices in his/her communication with colleagues and professors.
2- Handles the electronic information network with the ethics of a responsible citizen.
3. Uses university and scientific institution digital library resources with integrity and academic honesty.

Additional information:

Course Topics:
1- Introduction to the Science of Narration, including:
First: The importance of ascription (isnad) and the nation's specialization in it.
Second: The sources of the narrators:
A - Oral Sources.
B – Written Sources: (Ancient Originals, Branches and Copies, Works).
– A statement of the efforts of the hadith scholars in writing hadith by generalization and thoroughness, or by selection and choice.
– The hadith scholars’ focus on verifying the text and challenging it.
Third: Classification in the Sunnah: The evolution of classification in the Sunnah, and the stages of the era of narration.

2. Classification of sources based on their authenticity.
A. Original sources, which are works advanced in the era of narration, or attributed even after the era of narration.
The Hanging Poems in Early Sources, and the Difference Between Them and the Mu'allaqat in Later Works.
B. Alternative Sources: These are later sources that transmitted hadiths from original sources with their chains of transmission.
c. Secondary sources: These are later sources that include hadith narrations that are not attributed to their original chains of narration, whether they are attributed to their sources or not.
Sections of original sources by subject:
First: Works in the year
A- Works in Hadith: Al-Jawami, Al-Sunan, Al-Ajza, Al-Masaneed, Al-Muwatta, Al-Musannafat;
Features and characteristics
● Methods of classification.
● Narrated by its collectors.
● Its copies and editions.
The impact of classification type on the context of modern hadith narratives and the handling of their wording.
B. Works on Companions' Dictionaries, Teachers, and Mashaykh Books.
C. Authorship in classes, history, and wounds and modifications.
D. Works on the defects of Hadith;
Cataloging it and how to benefit from it, and understanding its narrations.
Second: Works in non-Hadith fields.
A- Works attributed in the exegesis.
B - Attributed works in creed.
C. Books attributed in Islamic jurisprudence and its principles.
d. Works Attributed in Language.
Its importance and the necessity of benefiting from it in tracking hadith narrations.
Study examples of each type.

Last updated: 2026-06-07