Hasan Hanafi

From the Criticism of Document to the Criticism of Text (pt.4)

The author of this research work tries to represent a method for utilizing social and human sciences in hadith crticism and text analysis of Prophetic hadiths from tree perspectives: sociological, historical and literary criticisms. He then represents the models or genres of the hadith to display how to apply each type of criticism.
In the previous parts, Dr Hanafi gave a definition of hadith criticism as well as the value and necessity for this criticism and he also verified the Sahih of al-Bukhari as a whole. He indicated the relation of the hadith with the Qur'an and elucidated their interdependence, moreover, he made explicit various genres(direct quotation, narration, questioning and answers, and the use of the sign language) in the Prophetic hadiths.
He cited the historiocty of the form and content of the hadith so as to prove that the form (structure and mode of addressings) in the hadith is a function of the laws and rules of oral report, the content (subject) of the hadith is in the line with its synchronic conditions , customs, practices and the characteristics of those days.
In the present part , the author demonstrates the social, cultural, polical and religious conditions of the age of the Prophet throughout the Prophetic hadiths.
The Sahih of al-Bukhari is the reference of all his studies.

Iftikhar Zaman

The Science of Rijal as a Method in the Study of Hadith(pt.1).

The substance of this paper consists of the variant versions of a single hadith: a hadith regarding the Prophet visiting Sa‘d ibn Abi Waqqas While the latter was ill. The purpose of the exercise, however, is not to look at the hadith but to look beyond it and behind it. He argues for the possibility of a science of rijal: a science of evaluating the qualities of narrators of hadiths in their transmission of hadiths
Iftikhar Zaman in his paper says, With a hadith which has over a hundred variants, I make no attempt at all to evaluate the soundness of the hadith, or to date it, or to separate fact' from embellishment' in the hadith. I don’t even wish to suggest that because there are so many versions of this hadith one should think it is a sound hadith. This is because the hadith itself is not the subject of this paper, I am only interested in showing that by gathering together many variant versions of a hadith it is possible to come to conclusions about the qualities of hadith

ABSTRACTS

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A paper submitted for publication must be double spaced and on one side of the paper. Length shold be 20 to 30 pages for articles and five or less for book reviews and confernce reports. ‘Ulum-i Hadith [Hadith Sciences] is the first academic journal in persian in the field of hadith scholarship and its related disciplines, it persues the following aims:
Dissemination of the culture of the hadith and the sunna,
Elucidation of the status of the hadith and the sunna in Islamic studies.
Achieving clear rules in line with comprehending the hadith and the sunna
Formulating lucid criteria in editing the hadiths.
Introducing and reviving the shitte and sunnite body of hadiths
Presenting a new outlook in the field of hadith scholarship
Introducing the most important hadith researches and researchers

Muhammad-Sadiq Najmi

Sayri dar Sahihayn (A Survey of the Two Books)

To deduce an Islamic rule , we need hadith and sunnah, next to the Quran. Hence, it is necessary to refer to hadith sources. The most important sources of sunnite are Sihah Sitta (the Six Books) specially the Sahih of al-Bukhari and the Sahih of Muslim.
In order to study sunnite hadiths we can compare them with their similar hadiths in shiite literature and evaluate thir content.
The writer of this article, mentioning the above statement, points out to some traditions of Sahihayn (the Two Books) and considers sunnite 'ulemas views on them.
In this article, he also compares some traditions which are on incarnation and comparison of God from non-shiite perspective with the tradition of al-Kafi. Tُhe writer, finally, talks about his aim of writing this book and answers to some questions.

Nad-‘Ali ‘Ashuri-Taluki

Mulla Sadra's Hadith-Oriented doctrines in Sharh 'Usul al-Kafi

The author, In this paper, studies Mulla Sadra's doctrines on hadith scholarship in Sharh ‘Usul al-Kafi in first section, he points to the status of hadith as the second foundation of the Islamic legislation and represents some sentences of Mulla Sadra to confirm this statement. Inseparability of the Book of God and the members of the House of the Prophet, paraphrasing in hadith, scansion of hadith, necessity of categorization of the hadiths and indicating their similarities and differences and causes of contradictions are of the issues which the author with the help of them tries to describe Mulla Sadra's doctrines and his approach to the science of the hadith which are the main concern of the author in this paper.