Critical Rigor vs. Juridical Pragmatism: How Legal Theorists and Hadīth Scholars Approached the Backgrowth of Isnāds in the Genre of 'Ilal al-Hadīth

Abstract Modern scholarship has accepted the 'backgrowth of isnāds' in the early hadīth tradition, but this phenomenon did not occur without controversy among classical Muslim scholars. Hadīth critics were aware that material was being pushed back to the Prophet, a phenomenon they approach...

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Main Author: Brown, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2007
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 2007, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-41
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