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The Earliest Codification of the Hadith

The compilation, codification and editing of the Hadith was a difficult task, that Muslim scholars realized through the development of a scientific identification of the correct from the false. The narrators, writers, compilers, codifiers and editors have done the gigantic task of tracking the correct hadith.

Al-Qazwini has done a tremendous job in transmitting eleven tracts separately on the authority of authentic sources and consulting in six canonical works on hadith as criterion. The scholarship of Al-Qazwini is unquestionable. While the tradition of Hadith is mainly oral, he has also mentioned the written records in forms of letters the Prophet (saw) sent to various people.

Written by Al-Qazwini

Translated by Dr Mohammad Hamidullah

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