A Manual of Hadith - Couverture rigide

Ali, Maulana Muhammad

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0940793202 ISBN 13 : 9780940793200

Editeur : Interlink Books, 1989

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The present work was undertaken to fulfil, primarily, the need of English converts to Islam, but it is really a work the need of which is felt throughout the English-speaking Muslim world. It is a faithful picture of the culture of Islam at its source, free from foreign influence and independent of later growth. It shows what the Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be on him, said and did, and what lives his Companions led. This is technically known as the Sunnah (lit., a manner of acting or a mode of life) of the Holy Prophet, and is popularly known as Hadith (lit., a saying), being a record of what he said, did or approved. Hadith literature is vast, there being several collections, the most important of which are known as the Sihah Sittah or the Six Reliable Works. Among these the Bukhari, (more fully, the Jami' of Muhammad Isma`il al-Bukhari), undoubtedly holds the first place. It is not only the first comprehensive collection of Hadith but also the most authentic one. As a recent European writer rightly observes, Bukhari undertook a research into the then prevalent Hadith "with all the painstaking accuracy of a modern writer." In addition to this in his faqahah or acumen, Bukhari surpasses all other collectors of Hadith. A translation of the Sahih Bukhari was undertaken about eight years ago by Mr. Muhammad Asad, an Austrian convert to Islam; but at first, owing perhaps to the lack of means as compared with the difficulties of the undertaking and, later, to his internment owing to the war, only a fractional part of the work has been published. Even if completed, the work, at a price of about Rs. 120, could decorate only the shelves of big libraries and would not be accessible to the man in the street. But really the Bukhari is every Muslim's need, and it is this need that I have tried to fulfil by publishing the present work. In A Manual of Hadith I have tried to give a compendium of the Sahih Bukhari, so far as subjects relating to the practical side of a Muslim's life are concerned. I have not touched the historical or prophetical portions of this great work, as I considered this beyond the scope of a handy treatise. In the arrangement of chapters too, I have mainly followed Bukhari. But as my object was to make this short treatise complete so far as the requirements of an ordinary Muslim are concerned, I have freely drawn upon other collections of Hadith, particularly that well-known work called the Mishkat, rendered into English by Matthews about the year 1870.

Présentation de l'éditeur

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Interlink Books
• Date d'édition: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0940793202
• ISBN 13: 9780940793200
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 408