Narrators of hadith

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Science of hadith

• History of Hadith — ...
  
• Ilm ar-Rijal — ...
  
• Narrators of hadith — ...
  

• Isnad — chain of narrators
  
• Matn — hadith text
  
• Riwayah — narration
  

• Musnad — supported
  
• Mursal — hurried
  
• Ahaad — single narrator
• Munqati — broken
• muttasil — uninterrupted isnad
  
• Gharib — strange/rare
  
• Shadhdh — irregular
  
• Munkar — denounced/rejected
  
• Mudraj — interpolated
  
• Da'if jiddan — very weak
  
• Isra'iliyat

• Mutawatir — agreed upon

• Sahih — authentic
  
• Hasan — fair
  
• Da'if — weak
  

• Mawdo — fabricated
  

• Mudtarib — shaky
  

• Sharh — comments
  
• Hadith collection