4 results for “rijal”

... A standard reference for hadith narrator criticism (ilm ar-rijal).

By Abu Ahmad ibn Adi. The most comprehensive classical work on weak hadith narrators. Ibn Adi examines approximately 2,200 narrators who were criticized, provid

By Shams ad-Din adh-Dhahabi. A comprehensive biographical dictionary of hadith narrators who were criticized or disputed. Adh-Dhahabi reviews the judgments of e

By Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Imam Ahmad's critical analysis of hadith narrators and defective hadiths. A major reference in the science of hadith criticism (ilm al-ilal