In the Islamic study of hadith, an isnād (chain of transmitters) refers to a list of people who passed on a tradition, from the original authority to...

scrutinizing the chain of transmittors (isnad) rather than the actual contents of the hadith (matn), and that scrutiny of isnad alone cannot determine the authenticity...

of companions of Muhammad. Ṣāḥīḥ (صحيح) "Sound in isnad." A technical attribute applied to the "isnad" of a hadith. Sakīnah (سكينة) divine "tranquility"...

refers to the isnad of a hadith. In addition, Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak said, “The isnad is from the religion; were it not for the isnad anyone could say...

repeat the mantra "The isnad is part of the religion — if not for the isnad, whoever wanted could say whatever they wanted." The isnad literally means "support"...

essentially, upon the number of narrators mentioned at each level in a particular isnād (chain of narrators). In hadith terminology, a hadith is divided into two...

Isnād-cum-matn analysis (ICMA) is a method in hadith studies that seeks to date and trace the evolution of hadith by identifying how variation in the...

imprecise form of isnād, or what modern historians call the "collective isnād" or "combined reports". The use of collective isnād meant that a report...

with an isnad different from that with Ibn Majah etc. Some scholars have differed with Ibn Hazm and pointed out hidden defects in its isnad – see, al-Fasi...

developed, such as the "science of biography", "science of hadith" and "Isnad" (chain of transmission). These methodologies were later applied to other...

version of the isnad continuing to the companion Ibn 'Abbās, but this only survives in a few sources. He claims that in another form of the isnad the name of...

terminology. It means the text of the hadith, excluding the isnad. A hadith is made of both an isnad (chain of transmission) and a matn. A hadith would typically...

the various names attached to the transmission of Kitab al-'Ayn, i.e. the isnad (chain of authorities). He begins with Durustuyah's account that it was...

literature, since hadiths maintain a traditional chain of transmission (isnad); the lack of such a chain for the biographical literature makes it unverifiable...

variants of the same report, but with a different chain of transmitters (isnad). The criteria for establishing the authenticity (sihha) of hadith came...

Moreover, Muslim only recorded hadith that were narrated to him by an unbroken isnad (chain) of narrators through two reliable tabi'un, each of which had to...

16 April 2018. Reza Aslan quotes Schacht's maxim: `the more perfect the isnad, the later the tradition`, which he (Aslan) calls "whimsical but accurate"...

of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj quoted with: "Formerly one did not ask about the Isnad. But when the fitna started, one said: 'Name us your informants'. One would...

to memorize or to preserve what he wrote, with a muttaṣil ("connected") isnād[broken anchor] ("chain of narration") that contains neither a serious concealed...

narration of that tradition. Experts have estimated the number of full-isnad narrations in the Sahih at 7,563, with the number reducing to around 2,600...

Archived 4 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Commentary of verse 6:151. Isnad: Dawud Al-Awdy narrated that, Ash-Sha`bi said that, Alqamah said that Ibn...

developed, such as the "science of biography", "science of hadith" and "Isnad" (chain of transmission). These methodologies were later applied to other...

jurist and a master teacher of hadith sciences, who is cited in several isnads (chains of transmissions). Among his students were Abu Ḥanifa and Malik...

traditions (isnad), whereas in others, his isnads do not fulfil the requirements of isnad criticism as they developed later on. In his day, the use of isnad was...

from Muhammad's living quarters because of his sexual orientation, but the isnad is weak, suggesting that this claim may have been fabricated. LGBT in Islam...

(Qira'at of Hamzah, 'Aasim, Khalaf, Al-Kisa'i) have chains of transmission (isnad) going through Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud, and they all include the above three...

"report", that is a recorded saying or tradition of Muhammad validated by isnad; with Sirah Rasul Allah these comprise the sunnah and reveal shariah. According...

has been related in connected form by Imām Ahmad in az-Zuhd with a Ṣaḥīḥ ʾisnād – as al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Hajar mentioned in Fatḥ al-Bārīʾ (11/303).[citation needed]...

chapter and provided further clarification. Al-Baghawī did not mention the isnad of the aḥādīth he collected whereas at-Tibrīzī mentions the source from...

criticism of Western and Muslim scholars that the content of many hadith and isnad (chain of transmitters) had been tampered with by Muslims trying to prove...