Ilm Ar-Rijal
CategoriesṢaḥīḥ - Ḥasan - Ḍaʻīf - Mawḍūʻ - Maqlūb
Ṣaḥīḥ - Ḥasan - Musnad - Muttaṣil - Ḍaʻīf - Muʻallaq - Mursal - Muʻḍal - Munqaṭiʻ - Munkar - Shādhdh - Muḍṭarib - Mawḍūʻ - Mutawatir - Ahaad - Mashhur - `Aziz - Gharib - Marfu` - Mawquf - Maqtu' - Isra'iliyat
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 )
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)
Kitab Al-Kafi ( الكتاب الكافي )
Man La Yahduruhu Al-Faqih ( من لا يحضره الفقيه )
Tahdhib Al-Ahkam ( تهذیب الاحکام )
Al-Istibsar ( الاستبصار )
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 (?)
Al-Jami' As-Sahih - Tartib Al-Musnad
Comments on the Peak of Eloquence (?–1258)
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.
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