Dedication Dr. Taha Husayn''s Foreword The Author's Response Definition of the Book Motives behind Compilation of this Book Narrating Hadith through Denotation: Hadith of That Who Lied Against Me: The Compositions: Abu Hurayrah: Collecting and Inscribing the Qur'an: Inscribing the Hadith: Origin of Science of Hadith: Scholars' Stance Toward Hadith: A General Word: For Truth and History An Indispensable Explanation Introduction to theThird Edition Al-Sunnah Position of Sunnah in Religion: Influence of Messenger's Speech OnWorldly Affairs: Obligation Not Necessitated by Messenger's Order Merely: Forbiddance from Writing the Hadith Companions and Hadith Relating: Companions' Strictness in Admittingthe Reports To Lie Against Messenger of Allah: Decisive Correct EvidencesOn Reality of the Hadith Who Lied Against Me Fabricating a Lie against the Prophet duringHis Lifetime Fabricating Lies Against the Prophet AfterHis Death: To Lie Against the Prophet Is a Major Sin: Divergence among Companions inNarrating Truthfully: The Companions Criticizing Each Other: Narration of Hadith after its Writing was Forbidden by Prophet: Narrating Hadith by Meaning andDisagreement among Scholars: Forms of Tashahhud: Word of Monotheism: Listening to Hadith Not to Songs: Examples on Narrating HadithBy MeaningHadith of Islam and Faith: Hadith of I Married Her to You with WhatYou Have146 Hadith of Performing Prayers inBanu Qurayzah: Hadith on Pollinating the Date Palms: Hadith of Ali's Sahifah: Disadvantage of NarratingHadith Through Meaning First Defect: Second Defect: Third Defect: Fourth Defect: Fifth Defect: Sixth Defect: Seventh Defect: Eighth Defect: I am Delegated with the Universal Speech Detriment of Narration throughMeaning Linguisticallyand Rhetorically Solecism and Mistake in Hadith: Advancing, Putting off, Addition and Omissionin Hadith: To Narrate Part of Hadith and Shortening it: Their Leniency toward Narrations on Virtuesand their Detriment: Narration in Islam Stage of Committing Hadith to Writing: A Critical Defect of Narration How WereTheir Narrations Composition of Hadithand its Causes Beginning of Invention in Riwayah andFalsifying the Messenger's Hadith The Fabricated Hadith: Detriment of Tales and Talebearer: Mu'awiyah was Fabricator of Tales: Political Fabrication or for Sake of Politics Mu'awiyah and Sham: Origin of Substitutes Village: The Abbasid State: Censuring the Turks: How Fabrication of Hadith was Permitted The Righteous Fabricators A Witty Saying: Fabrication Through Inclusion: Can the Fabricated Hadith be Recognized: Some Companions Relating fromJewish Rabbis: Companions Disproving Ka'b: Story of the Rock between Umar and Ka'b: Jewish Traditions on Excellence of.Bayt al-Maqdis: Traditions on al-Masjid al-Aqsa: Jewish Role in Preferring the Sham: Investigators' Opinion about Israeliyyat.and their Narrators: Political Stratagem Ka'b and Mu'awiyah: Hadith of Jassasah: Hadith of Satan's Defaming All Sons of Adam Except Jesusand Mother. Ibn Jarih: Jesus Christ and his Descension: Place of his Descension: Length of His Term: The Suspicions Raised by Them: Abundance of Related Traditions: Abu Hurayrah Disagreement about His Name: His coming to Medina and Going to Khaybar: Reason of His Companionship to the Prophet: Shaykh al-Mudirah: Hadith: Visit at Intervals You Increase in Love: His Jesting and Nonsense: Scorning Him: Multiplicity of His Traditions: His Justification for Narrating Abundantly: His Imposture (Tadlis) First Narrator Accused in Islam: His Reporting from Ka'b al-Ahbar: Memorizing the Two Receptacles: Abu Hurayrah Follows the Umayyads: Fabrication of Traditions against Ali His Conduct during His Rule His death: A General Word in His Regard Samples of Abu Hurayrah's Narrations: Narrations of Great Companions Traditions Reported by Abu Bakr. Traditions Reported by Umar: Traditions Reported by Ali: Ambiguous Traditions Hadith on Dispute in Celestial City: The Paradise Bull: Prophet's Seeing God Eleven Times,and Isra' was Reality An Angel among Throne Bearers: The Thunder: The Black Stone: Favour of Basmalah: One of Throne Bearers: Gabriel has 600 Wings: Our Lord Uncovering His leg: Sheep Being among Paradise Mounts: Foot of the Almighty Allah: A Tree in Paradise: The Most Credible Hadith: Touba A Tree in Paradise: Traditions on al-Mahdi: The Abbasid al-Mahdi: Al-Mahdi al-Sufyani: The Twelve Caliphs: Opinions of Some Scholars on.These Traditions: Al-Dajjal (Impostor) 447 Al-Dajjal in Farewell Sermon: Age of the World A General Word on Traditions of Provisions of the Hourand Alike Incongruous Traditions(With Muslims Knowing not Which to Adopt) Tadwin al-Qur'an: Writing of Qur'an during Lifetimeof the Prophet (S): Revelation scribes: Collection of Qur'an and its Reason: Seeking to Collect the Qur'an: A Perplexing Oddity: The Qur'an During Reign of Uthman: Writing of the Qur'an During Reign of Uthman: Difference between Collecting of Abu Bakr and that of Uthman: Number of Masahif Sent By Uthmanto Metropolises: A Meditative Pause: A Necessary Commentary: The First Ambiguity: The Second Ambiguity: The Third Ambiguity: Tadwin al-Hadith:468 Writing of Hadith was Forcibly Done: Tadwin of Umayyads was not Considered Symmetrical: Tadwin during the Abbasid Era Tadwin after 200 (Hijrah) Year: Stages of Changeability of Tadwin: Effect of Delay in Tadwin: The Shiah and Writing of Hadith Origination of Science of Hadith The First Who Compiled Ilm al-Hadith: Purpose of Ilm al-Hadith: Ascription and Text of Hadith: From Whom Hadith Should be Taken: Parts of Khabar: Rule of Mutawatir and Ahad: Mutawatir is not Included in Ilm al-Isnad: Ibn al-Salah and his Opponents. Hadith Including no Mutawatir: Ahadith al-Ahad: The Correct Hadith: The Good Hadith: The Weak Hadith: Multiplicity of Hadith Ways Never.Reinforces Them: Being Self-Decisive is no Condition forCorrect Hadith: Best Care Was Given to Sanad: A Necessary Meditation Some Kinds of Hadith The Confused Hadith: Traditionists Care Not for Errors & Criticismof Texts: Defect-Finding in Hadith: Misconstructed Kinds of Traditions: Kinds of Muharraf Traditions: The Reversed Hadith Famous Hadith Books Malik and His Muwatta': Divergence of His Narrations: Cause and Time of Its Compilation:556 Criticism of Ibn Mu'in to Malik: Al-Bukhari and His Book Reason Behind Compilation ofal-Bukhari's Book: Al-Bukhari Narrating Through Meaning: Death of al-Bukhari Before RevisingHis Book: Sahih al-Bukhari Containing Many Dubieties: Al-Bukhari's Traditions and Their Deniers: Al-Bukhari and People of Sham: Al-Bukhari and Infliction of Inventionof the Qur'an: Al-Bukhari's Narrations Differ in Number: Muslim and His Book Views Held about al-Bukhari and Muslim Estrangement of Riwayah of Men of Opinion: Are Sahihayn Containing Most Correct Traditions? Amendment on al-Bukhari and Muslim: An Odd Maxim Narrated by al-Bukhariand Muslim: Who Considered al-Bukhari and MuslimMore Authentic? Abu Dawud Al-Tirmidhi Al-Nasa'i Al-Mustakhrajat Musnad Ahmad Musnad Books Other Than al-Sihah al-Sittah: Comments on Musnad Ahmad: Ahmad Reporting from an ApostateCompanion: Jarh and Ta'dil Reasons of Jarh: Disagreement Regarding Jarh and Ta'dil: Jarh Precedes Ta'dil: A General Word Reliability of the Companions Who is the Companion? A Research on Disagreement Adopting Reliability of All the Sahabah Hypocrites Among Sahabah andSurat al-Tawbah: Preferring Trade and Pastime to Prayers: Hypocrisy of Companions during and after Prophet'sLifetime: Attitude of Ulama' toward Akhbar al-Ahad The Mutakallimun: The Fuqaha': Sayings of Madhahib Imitators: Opinion of Malik and His Companions: Al-Awza'i and Abu Hanifah: Madhhab being Altered Religion: Grammarians and Linguists: Opinion of al-Imam Muhammad Abduh: Sorcery Hadith is of Ahad: Opinion of Sayyid Rashid Rida: Asking for Hadith without Fiqh(and what the traditionists nicknamed with) Conclusion Verification of Akhbar by RecognizingTempers of People: Research on Sciences of Hadith738 The Greatest Calamity Inflicted Islam: Believing in Message of Muhammad (S):749 Can Anyone Authenticated by Earliers be Deemed Thiqah? Criticism by Ulama' of Fiqh al-Hadith: Can Traditions be Counted a General Law? State of People during First Era and After It: Fiqh during the Prophet's Lifetime: Aspects of Preponderance Contain Contradiction: Rules and Principles Original Rules of Rituals and Transactions: