{"product_id":"encyclopaedia-of-hadith-forgeries-sayings-misattributed-to-the-prophet-muhammad","title":"Encyclopedia of Hadith Forgeries: Sayings Misattributed to the Prophet Muhammad","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first comprehensive catalogue and study of hadith forgeries in English – an \u003cstrong\u003eessential\u003c\/strong\u003e addition to the library of any serious student of hadith studies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 740 page hardback book has been over 10 years in the making and is the first comprehensive catalogue and study of hadith forgeries in the English language. The Lifting of Secrets Concerning Forged Re­ports was written over four hundred years ago by a respected and prolific Meccan savant of Afghan origin. Mulla ‛Ali al-Qari (d. 1014\/1605) was thor­oughly famil­iar with the large body of critical lit­erature on hadith forgery, which he re­fined and re­or­dered alpha­beti­cally into 625 entries. \u003cspan\u003eAl-Qari's last work, it is the only catalogue of forgeries with both a transmission-based and content-based critique, illustrating the author's vast erudition as well as his lenient choices in hadith methodology and his classic Hanafi and Sufi views. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQari’s own text is in three main sections totalling 350 pages:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn introduction in seven sections\u003cbr\u003eAn alphabetical dictionary of forgeries (with Qari’s original 625 hadith entries in the book’s margins in Arabic) \u003cbr\u003eThe combined epitome of the Manar of Ibn al-Qayyim and the Maqasid of Sakhawi in 40 sections.\u003cbr\u003eThe translator has added his own study of the forgery and ‘famous hadith’ genres, the life and works of the author, extensive footnotes and exhaustive indices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 230-page introduction in seven sections consists of:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForgers and the reasons for hadith forgeries\u003cbr\u003eCharacteristics of forged content and matn implausibility\u003cbr\u003eNotorious forgers\u003cbr\u003eTypology of forgeries\u003cbr\u003e“Famous Hadith” and “Forgery” compilations\u003cbr\u003eBio-bibliography of Mulla `Ali al-Qari\u003cbr\u003eSalient Features of al-Qari’s Asrar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt also contains a full bibliography and seven indexes totalling 138 pages. A total of 3,000 reports are docu­mented in this volume covering doctrinal and juridi­cal forgeries, Shia for­geries, Sufi for­geries, racial forgeries, misogynistic for­geries, food forgeries, ‘Israelite’ forgeries, medical forgeries, sex forgeries, spurious books, spurious grave-spots and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first and long overdue au­thentic refer­ence work on hadith forgeries in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eABOUT THE TRANSLATOR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr. Gibril Fouad Haddad holds scholarly licenses (ijāza) from 150 shaykhs and has authored dozens of books and hundreds of articles in Islamic hermeneutics, doctrine, hadith, biography and here­siology. He was hailed in the inaugural edition of The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World as one of the clearest voices of traditional Islam in the West. His recent works include The Four Imams and Their Schools, Sunna Notes III: The Binding Proof of the Sunna (with Ibn Hajar’s 50-page com­mentary on the hadith of islām, īmān, ih.sān) and The Muhammadan Light in theQur’an, Sunna and Companion-Reports. He lives in Brunei Darussalam.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beacon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55730171478392,"sku":null,"price":34.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/8543\/5158\/files\/Hadith_forgeries.png?v=1794082079","url":"https:\/\/furthestboundarybookshop.co.uk\/products\/encyclopaedia-of-hadith-forgeries-sayings-misattributed-to-the-prophet-muhammad","provider":"Furthest Boundary Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}