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A treatise on the virtue of news and an explanation of the doctrines of the scholars of antiquities

رسالة في فضل الأخبار وشرح مذاهب أهل الآثار

Author: أبو عبد الله محمد بن إسحاق بن محمد بن يحيى بن مَنْدَه العبدي (المتوفى: 395هـ) (d. 395)

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هذه رسالة في علوم الحديث لأبي عبد الله محمد بن إسحاق بن منده، تتناول بيان فضل الأخبار النبوية وشرح مذاهب أهل الأثر في تلقي الروايات وتصحيحها. يبدأ المؤلف الكتاب بالحمد والثناء، ثم يتناول موضوعات تشمل شروط الأئمة في قبول الحديث، وطبقات المحدثين والناقلين للآثار من عصر الصحابة والتابعين فمن بعدهم، مع ترتيب الرواة من حيث القبول والرد، وذكر المشهورين بوضع الأسانيد والمتون.

Translation

This is a treatise on the sciences of hadith by Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ishaq bin Mandah. It deals with an explanation of the virtue of prophetic news and an explanation of the doctrines of the scholars of hadith in receiving and correcting narrations. The author begins the book with praise and praise, then addresses topics that include the conditions of the imams in accepting the hadith, the classes of hadith scholars and transmitters of hadiths from the era of the Companions and the Successors and those after them, along with the order of the narrators in terms of acceptance and refutation, and mentioning those famous for creating chains of transmission and texts.

Topics covered

  • The virtue of news and explanation of the doctrines of the scholars of antiquities = conditions of the imams
  • And perform prayers, pay zakat, fast Ramadan, and perform Hajj to the House
  • And to finish what he forbade them from doing
  • Collection of the Qur’an
  • Sects of the nation to serve the sciences of the Qur’an
  • Classes of hadith scholars
  • The layers of transmitters of relics after the Companions and Followers
  • The first class of hadith scholars
  • Then the knowledge of these twelve ended up being six, may God have mercy on them
  • Then the knowledge of these people ended up being three
  • Classes of narrators in terms of acceptance and response
  • Condition of Abu Dawud and Al-Nasa’i
  • They are famous for creating chains of transmission and texts
  • Mention the rank of the Companions in knowledge, judgment, and reading
  • Bin Thabet
  • May God be pleased with them

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رسوم التحديث في علوم الحديث