Ḥadīth literature
Subtitle: its origin, development and special features
By: by Muhammad Zubayr Siddiqi ; edited and revised by Abdal Hakim Murad
Contributors: Murad, Abdal Hakim
Edition: Rev. ed
Publisher: Islamic Texts Society
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Hadith
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-166) and index
Table of contents: title: 1. The event of the Ḥadīth; title: 2. The Companions; title: 3. After the Companions; title: 4.  Categories of Ḥadīth collections; title: 5. Some special features of the literature; title: 6. The biographical dictionaries; title: 7. The discipline of formal criticism; title: Appendix I. Women in Ḥadīth scholarship; title: Appendix II. The Ḥadīth and Orientalism; title: Appendix III. The Leiden edition of Ibn Saʻd