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Isnad

In the Islamic study of hadith, an isnād (chain of transmitters, or literally "supporting"; Arabic: اِسْناد) refers to a list of people who passed on a tradition, from the original authority to whom the tradition is attributed to, to the present person reciting or compiling that tradition. The tradition an isnad is associated with is called the matn.…

Pre-Islamic background, Origins in Islam & Reliability

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Pre-Islamic background

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Origins in Islam

BasranIbn SirinFirst FitnaMuhammad Mustafa AzmiSecond Fitna
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Reliability

Origins of Muhammadan JurisprudenceIslamic century
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Isnad-cum-matn analysis

Isnad-cum-matn analysis
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Isnad-cum-matn analysis

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Isnad

Nodes42
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Triples187
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.047619
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related to Sources · 142
Isnad → Abī, According, Ahmed, Al-Qanṭara, Amran, Anders, Andreas, Attributions, Authority, Avot's Chain, Before Orthodoxy, Bloomsbury, Brill, Brown, Cambridge University Press, Catherine, CE, Chains, Charakter Und Authentie Der, Christian
related to Reliability · 20
Isnad → According, Additional, AH, Complete, For Schacht, In, Islamic, Isnads, Joseph Schacht, Muhammad, Muhammad's, Muhammadan Jurisprudence, Once, One, Origins, Over, Prophetic, Schacht's, This, Today
related to Origins in Islam · 16
Isnad → According, AD, Basran, First Fitna, Furthermore, However, Ibn Sirin, Islamic, Joseph Schacht, Juynboll, Juynboll's, Muhammad Mustafa Azmi, One, Second Fitna, Since Juynboll, Third Fitna
related to Isnad-cum-matn analysis · 9
Isnad → By, Harald Motzki, ICMA, In, Motkzi, Motzki, Put, Schoeler, The

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