Encyclopedia of Canonical Ḥadīth

ISBN-13: 9789004156746 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 804 str.

G. H. a. Juynboll; Gautier Juynboll

Opis

This encyclopedic work on Islam comprises English translations of all canonical ḥadīths, complete with their respective chains of transmission (isnāds). By conflating the variant versions of the same ḥadīth, the repetitiveness of its literature has been kept wherever possible to a minimum. The latest methods of isnād analysis, described in the general introduction, have been employed in an attempt to identify the person(s) responsible for each ḥadīth. The book is organized in the alphabetical order of those persons. These are the so-called 'common links'. Each of them is listed with the tradition(s) for the wording of which he can be held accountable, or with which he can at least be associated. Within each article, the traditions are referred to in bold figures in the numerical order as they were distilled from the more than 19,000 isnāds listed in Tuḥfat al-ashrāf bi ma'rifat al-aṭrāf by the Syrian ḥadīth scholar Yusuf b. 'Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Mizzī (d. 742/1341). Medieval commentaries as well as assorted biographical lexicons were drawn upon to illustrate the text of each tradition in all theological, social, legal and other noteworthy aspects discernible in it. Thus no details of eschatology, superstitions, miraculous phenomena, Jahili practices etc. were left without the clarifying comments of contemporary and later theologians, historians and ḥadīth experts culled from such works as the Fatḥ al-bārī, a major commentary of Bukhārī's Ṣaḥīḥ by Ibn Ḥajar al-'Asqalānī (d. 852/1448) or the commentary by Yaḥya b. Sharaf an-Nawawī (d. 676/1277) of the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim b. al-Ḥajjāj. The encyclopedia concludes with an exhaustive index and glossary of names and concepts, which functions at the same time as a concordance. In short, this work presents an indispensable sourcebook of the development of Islam in all its facets during the first three centuries since its foundation as reflected in canonical ḥadīth.

Recenzje

"I admire the precision and the clearness of this work, which enables the reader to easily find his way in the enormous corpus of material' (Manfred Ullmann)
"This work is the product of the author's lifelong dedication to the study of the hadith literature and to making this material more accessible. Juynboll has brought together a vast number of traditions, presented them in English translation, and provided much useful information regarding each. Summing Up: Highly recommended. (M. Schwartz, Boston University) Choice Review

Spis treści

Preface
List of technical abbreviations
List of (shortened) bibliographical references
General Introduction
An alphabetical list of persons with whom canonical traditions may be associated
Appendix: List of abdal
unearthed mainly from the rijal lexiconsIndex
List of Qur anic passages

O autorze

G.H.A. Juynboll (1935-2010) received his Ph.D. from Leiden University. His legacy is administered by the Juynboll Stichting