Al-Barqani’s questions to Al-Daraqutni, Al-Karaji’s narration about him

Translation

The book “Al-Barqani’s Questions by Al-Daraqutni, Al-Karaji’s Narration from Him” is one of the books on the science of ills and questions in jarh and ta’deel. It collects Al-Barqani’s questions to Imam Al-Daraqutni about the conditions of the narrators and the extent of their trustworthiness or weakness. This book falls within the early scientific efforts that sought to distinguish authentic hadiths from weak ones by tracking the conditions of the hadith narrators. In its introduction, the book addresses the importance of the science of chain of transmission and the emergence of the science of jarh and modification, and refers to the development of books of questions as a basis for this science.