Ilm Ar-Rijal

Ilm Ar-Rijal

Categories

Ṣaḥīḥ - Ḥasan - Ḍaʻīf - Mawḍūʻ - Maqlūb

Terminology

Ṣaḥīḥ - Ḥasan - Musnad - Muttaṣil - Ḍaʻīf - Muʻallaq - Mursal - Muʻḍal - Munqaṭiʻ - Munkar - Shādhdh - Muḍṭarib - Mawḍūʻ - Mutawatir - Ahaad - Mashhur - `Aziz - Gharib - Marfu` - Mawquf - Maqtu' - Isra'iliyat

Collections Sunni Al-Kutub Al-Sittah - ( The Six Books )

Sahih Al-Bukhari ( صحيح البخاري )
Sahih Muslim ( صحيح مسلم )
Al-Sunan Al-Sughra ( السنن الصغرى )
Sunan Abi Dawood ( سنن أبي داود )
Sunan Al-Tirmidhi ( جامع الترمذي )
Sunan Ibn Maja ( سُنن ابن ماجه )

Others

Muwatta Imam Malik - Musnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (780–855) - Sunan Al-Darimi (868) - Shama'il Muhammadiyah often referred to as Shamaail Tirmidhi (9th Century) - Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (923) - Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān (965) - Al-Mustadrak Alaa Al-Ṣaḥīḥaīn (1014) - Al-Mawdū'āt Al-Kubrā (1128–1217) - Rīaḍ As-Ṣāliḥīn (1233–1278) - Mishkat Al-Masabih (1340) - Talkhis Al-Mustadrak (1274–1348) - Majma Al-Zawa'id (1335–1405) - Bulugh Al-Maram (1372–1449) - Kanz al-Ummal (16th century) - Zujajat al-Masabih (19th century) - Minhaj us Sawi (20th century) - Muntakhab Ahadith (20th century)

Shi'a Al-Kutub Al-Arb'ah - ( The four Books )

Kitab Al-Kafi ( الكتاب الكافي )
Man La Yahduruhu Al-Faqih ( من لا يحضره الفقيه )
Tahdhib Al-Ahkam ( تهذیب الاحکام )
Al-Istibsar ( الاستبصار )

Others

The Book of Sulaym Ibn Qays (7th Century) - Al-Sahifa Al-Sajjadiyya (678–713) - Sharh Usul al-Kafi (?–1081) - Nahj Al-Balagha (10th Century) - Wasā'il Al-Shīʿa (17th century) - Bihar Al-Anwar (17th century) - Haqq al-Yaqeen (17th century) - Ain Al-Hayat (17th century) - Qalam-e-Mowla (?) - Daim al-Islam (?)

Ibadi

Al-Jami' As-Sahih - Tartib Al-Musnad

Mu'tazila

Comments on the Peak of Eloquence (?–1258)

Related Articles

Hadith studies - Biographical evaluation - Ahl Al-Hadith - Criticism of Hadith

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Biographical evaluation, (Arabic: `ilm al-rijāl; عِلْمُ الرِّجال‎), literally: "knowledge of men", refers to a discipline of Islamic religious studies within hadith terminology in which the narrators of hadith are evaluated. Its goal is to distinguish authentic hadith from hadith unacceptable in establishing sanctioned religious knowledge or practice. `Ilm ar-rijal is synonymous with what is commonly referred to as al-jarḥ wa al-taʻdīl (discrediting and accrediting) – the criticism and declared acceptance of hadith narrators.