The Sciences of Hadith and Their Impact on Preserving the Prophetic Sunnah
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Sciences of Hadith, SunnahAbstract
The sciences of the Noble Prophet’s Hadith are concerned with the study of two basic aspects. Firstly, the aspect of the narration and transmission of the Prophet’s Sunnah and supporting that by narrating and informing, and the narrator’s burden of what he narrates with a kind of responsibility of hearing or presentation and the like. Secondly, the aspect of the rules and laws by which it is reached to know the status of the chain of transmission of the Prophet’s hadith and its text, in addition to the consequences of that in terms of acceptance or rejection.
The subject of this science is the Sunnah of the Prophet, may Allah's prayers and peace be upon him, in terms of his sayings, actions, settlement, moral and Allah-given qualities, as well as narrating and transmitting them. Additionally, it involves adhering to the rules and controls in accepting or rejecting it. This is the aim and ultimate goal of studying the sciences of hadith, and the consequent validity or weakness of the hadith of the Prophet. Thus, the acceptable is done and the rejected is left, which confirms the importance of hadith sciences and their role and impact on preserving the Sunnah of the Prophet through the important rules and laws laid down by hadith scholars.
Among their concern for this knowledge and its impact on preserving the Sunnah of the Prophet is what is related to their praiseworthy efforts in receiving, preserving and studying the chain of transmission. In fact, the chain of transmission is of great importance and there is no basis for hadith without it. They even made it part of the religion. If it were not for the chain of transmission, anyone would have said whatever he wanted.
This also appears through the extreme precision that hadith scholars attached to it, by setting the considered conditions for its authenticity, and weakening of the hadith because of the weakness or falsehood of the narrator, or because of omissions and disconnectedness in the chain of transmission. This is in addition to what they mentioned of the narrators hearing or unhearing from each other, and their statement of the most sound and weak chains of transmission, and also verifying and tracing back the ancestry of the narrators. Furthermore, there are other aspects of their concern for the sciences of hadith, from which we deduce the high status of this science and its prominent role in preserving and preserving the Prophet’s Sunnah.
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