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He also demonstrated in his Ph.D. thesis the reason why none or very<br />
few of them are still in existence today<br />
“These books were not destroyed nor did they<br />
perish, but (they) were absorbed into the work of later<br />
authors. When the encyclopedia-type books were<br />
produced scholars did not feel the necessity to keep the<br />
early books or booklets and so slowly they disappeared."<br />
[Studies in Hadeeth Methodology and Literature, p.64]<br />
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