What do you say about the one who wants to seek knowledge of hadeeth?
How should I start? Please note that I have studied 'aqeedah (beliefs)
in depth, praise be to Allah, and now I findmyself inclining a great
deal towards studying hadeeth. I want to start and I need your advice.
Praise be to Allaah.
We may sum up our advice concerning the methodology of seeking
knowledge of hadeeth as follows:
Firstly:
Paying a great deal of attention to memorising the texts of the
Prophet's Sunnah, because this is theaim and purpose for whichthe
scholars established allthe sciences of hadeeth. Soit is not
permissible for theseeker of knowledge to bedistracted from the aim
bythe means.
Memorising the texts of the Prophet's Sunnah begins with memorising
the hadeeths on which there is agreement between the two Saheehs
(al-Bukhaari and Muslim), then by memorising thosewhich were narrated
only by al-Bukhaari, then by memorising those that were narrated only
by Muslim. This will lead to accomplishing the first and most
important stage in forming the hadeeth mentality in the one who is
seeking knowledge of hadeeth.
After that, he moves on to memorising hadeeths thatare extra to those
of the two Saheehs, which are to be found in the six books and the
well-known Musnads. He may seek help in doing so by means of many
books in which these extra reports (zawaa'id) are compiled and
classified.
The best ways of memorising include repeating the text to be memorised
for a few days after the day on which he memorises it. This methodwas
recommended by az-Zarnooshi (may Allah have mercy on him) when he
said:
The seeker of knowledge should recite the text repeatedly because he
willnot be able to memorise properly until he dies that.He should
repeat what he memorised on the previous day five times, and repeat
what he memorised the day beforethat four times, and repeatwhat he
memorised on the day before that three times, and what he memorised on
the day before that two times, andwhat he memorised before that one
time. This will help him to memoriseand repeat. End quote.
Ta'leem at-Ta'allum, p. 60
If the student is not able to memorise completely, then he should do
no less than reading these hadeeths often, so that he will be able to
call them tomind and have a full comprehension of them.
This topic has been discussed in detail previously in the answer to
question no. 113469
Secondly:
It is essential for the seeker of hadeeth knowledge to memorise
different types of isnaads and whatever he can memorise of the names
and biographies of narrators. The isnaads of the Prophet's Sunnah can
be divided – in terms of how well known they are – into three
categories:
1.
Well known isnaads, through any of which hundreds of hadeeths were
narrated and they are regarded as one of themain channels through
which the Prophet's Sunnah came to us. Indeedthere is no book among
the six books that did not rely on them and narrate from many of them.
Examples include:
The isnaad of al-A'mash from Dhakwaan Abu Saalih al-Sammaan, from Abu Hurayrah
The isnaad of az-Zuhri from Abu Salamah ibn 'Abd ar-Rahmaan from Abu Hurayrah.
The isnaad of Hammaad ibn Salamah, from Thaabit ibn Aslam, from Anas.
The isnaad of 'Ubaydullah ibn 'Umar al-'Umari, from Naafi', from Ibn 'Umar.
It is possible to find out about these chains of narration, through
which hundreds of reports were narrated, from the book Tuhfat
al-Ashraaf by Imamal-Mazzi.
The student may also seekhelp in memorising the narrators of these
isnaads from the book Tabaqaat al-Mukthireena min Riwaayat al-Hadeeth
by Shaykh 'Aadil az-Zarqi, with a introduction by 'Abdullah as-Sa'd
(published by Dar Tuwayq).
If the seeker of hadeeth knowledge pays attention to these isnaads and
memorises them, then start to connect these isnaads to the texts that
he has previously memorised from the books of Sunnah, he will thus
have instilled in his mind hundreds of hadeeths with their isnaads. In
this way he willhave started a new stage of acquiring deep knowledge
of this noble science.
2.
The second category is isnaads that are less well-known, through which
dozens of reports were narrated, but they include some well-known
issues such as interruptions in the chain of narration, ambiguity,
omission of the name of the Sahaabi (mural report)and so on. The
student may study some of these isnaads in the book Tuhfatal-Tahseel
by al-'Alaa'i.
If the seeker of knowledgepays attention to these isnaads too, and
learns theproblems associated with these types of isnaads, then he
will achieved a great deal in this branch ofknowledge. :->
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