HD110 : Forty Ahadith of Imam al Nawawi rh.

HD110 covers the famous treatise al-arba’oon al-nawawi of Imam Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi rahimahullah, carefully designed to be taught in depth with complementary memorization of the matn (text) over the course of year. The course will also allow a distinct opportunity for the student to understand Hadeeth related terminologies (Mustalah al Hadeeth).

Currently this is an in-person on-site course part of the Absolute Essentials Program.

Instructor: Maulana Muhammad bin Zahid Patel

Lectures: 30

Curriculum

Session 01

• Muqaddimah of kitāb and mu’allif
• Definition, Object, Subject Matter of Usool-ul-Hadith, Definition of Hadith

Session 02

• Hadīth 1
• Types of Ahadith; Mutawaatir & Khabar Waahid, Hanafi categorisation from The Introduction to Principles of Ḥadīth according to the Ḥanafī methodology by Shaikh ʿAbdul Majīd al-Turkmānī

Session 03

• Hadīth 2
• Types of Khabar Waahid based on attribution (3+1), explanation of al-Qudsi from The Ḥadīth Methodology in Simplification of the Ḥadīth Sciences by Dr Alī Nāyif al-Biqāʿī

Session 04

• Hadīth 3 & 4
• Types of Khabar Waahid based on number of narrators (3)

Session 05

• Hadīth 5
• Types of Khabar Waahid based on reliability of narrators (1/16)

Session 06

• Hadīth 6 & 7
• Types of Khabar Waahid based on reliability of narrators (2/16)

Session 07

• Hadīth 8 & 9
• Types of Khabar Waahid based on reliability of narrators (3/16)

Session 08

• Hadīth 10
• Select readings from The Ruling of practicing on a ḍaʿif Ḥadīth and from The Influence of the Noble Ḥadīth upon the differences of Opinion amongst the Jurist Imāms by Shaikh Muhammad al-ʿAwwāmah

Session 09

• Hadīth 11 & 12
• Types of Khabar Waahid based on reliability of narrators (4 & 5/16)

Session 10

• Hadīth 13 & 14
• Types of Khabar Waahid based on reliability of narrators (6/16)

Session 11

• Hadīth 15 & 16
• Select readings from The harms of equating a ḍaʿif hadīth to mawḍūʿ by Shaikh Khalīl Ibrāhīm Mullá and from The Ḥadīth Methodology in Simplification of the Ḥadīth Sciences by Dr Alī Nayif al-Biqāʿī

Session 12

• Hadīth 17 & 18
• Types of Khabar Waahid based on reliability of narrators (7-11/16)

Session 13

• Hadīth 19
• Types of Khabar Waahid based on reliability of narrators (12-16/16)

Session 14

• Hadīth 20 & 21

Session 15

• Hadīth 22
• Types of Khabar Waahid based on consistency of chain (7).

Session 16

• Hadīth 23
• The Collections of Hadith; Sequence based, authenticity based.

Session 17

• Hadīth 24
• Sequence based (9)

Session 18

• Hadīth 25 & 26
• Authenticity based (5)

Session 19

• Hadīth 27
• The Sihaah Sittah, the order of merit, madhab of compilers

Session 20

• Hadīth 28
• Miscellaneous Q & A

Session 21

• Hadīth 29
• Select readings from The Garden of the Ḥadīth Scholars by Imām ʿAbdul ʿAzīz al-Dehlawī

Session 22

• Hadīth 30 & 31
• Explanation of “When the Ḥadīth is authentic, it is my madhab” from The Influence of the Noble Ḥadīth upon the differences of Opinion amongst the Jurist Imāms by Shaikh Muhammad al-ʿAwwāmah and from When the Ḥadīth is authentic, it is my madhab by Dr Alī Nāyif al-Biqāʿī

Session 23

• Hadīth 30 & 31
• Review

Session 24

• Hadīth 34 & 35
• Jarh & Taʿdeel, the Words of Taʿdeel (16), the Words of Jarh (29)

Session 25

• Hadīth 36
• Acceptance & Non Acceptance of Jarh & Taʿdeel, Conditions for accepting Jarh & Taʿdeel

Session 26

• Hadīth 37
• Select readings from The Principles of al-Jarh & al-Taʿdīl and introduction to ʿilm al-Rijāl by Dr Nūr al-Dīn ʿItr

Session 27

• Hadīth 38
• Select readings from Al-Rafʿ & al-Takmīl in al-Jarh & al-Taʿdīl ilm al-Rijāl by Imām Abul Hasanāt Muhammad ʿAbdul Hayy al-Lakhnawī

Session 28

• Hadīth 39 & 40
• Summative

Session 29

• Hadīth 41
• Miscellaneous Q & A

Session 30

• Hadīth 42
• Select readings from The Differences of The Imāms by Shaikh Muhammad Zakariyya Al-Khandhelwī