Isra'iliyat
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In the Science of hadith in Islamic theology Isra'iliyat اسرائیلیات (of Isra'il) is the body of hadith originating from Judeo-Christian traditions, rather than from the Islamic prophet Muhammad.[1]. The Isra'iliyat are mostly non-biblical explanatory stories and traditions (in Hebrew: midrashim) giving extra information or interpretation about events or individuals recorded in the Hebrew scriptures.
Muslims classify such hadith in three categories [1]:
- Those considered to be true because the revelation to Muhammad confirms them.
- Those considered to be false, because the revelation to Muhammad rejects them.
- Those not known to be either true or false.
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[edit] Sunni view
A Sunni site, islamic-awareness.org, states:
“ | We find that Wahb Ibn Munabbih and Ka`b al-Ahbar are considered as trustworthy narrators of hadith because they transmitted the Islamic traditions faithfully along with isra'iliyyat traditions. Just because they had also transmitted isra'iliyyat traditions along with the Islamic ones does not make them 'untrustworthy' or 'fabricators' of hadith because they did not attribute these isra'iliyyat traditions to the Prophet(P). Muslim scholars have rejected the isra'iliyyat traditions on the basis that they do not satisfy the critieria of truthfulness according to the above set of rules.
In a response to an accusation against Ka`b al-Ahbar, Wahb Ibn Munabbih, and others who had knowledge in the previous books and transmitted it in the Islamic literature, Dr. Muhammad Husayn al-Dhahabi says:
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- ^ a b Interpreting The Text
- ^ Muhammad Husayn al-Dhahabi, Al-Tafsir wa 'l-Mufassirun, Op Cit., p. 192.
- ^ On The Transmitters Of Isra'iliyyat (Judeo-Christian Material)
[edit] External links
- Terry Newman, The Isra’iliyyat Literature, November 2003.