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Hadith: What orientalists and modernists get wrong - with Dr Jonathan Brown

The Thinking Muslim

CHAPTER

The Process of Authenticating Hadiths and the Role of Scholars

This chapter explores the intense process of determining the authenticity of hadiths and the role of scholars in analyzing and validating them. It discusses the emergence of different schools of law before the compilation of the six books of hadith and how scholars collected their own material. The chapter also delves into the division of labor between a hadith scholar and a jurist, emphasizing the importance of the critical process followed by Muslim scholars in interpreting and understanding hadiths.

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