Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi

STUDY OF HISTORY
personalities, but this was quite natural, and this
is something which is not peculiar to Muslim
historians. The British, American and other
Western historians of the modern period have
done the same thing. We do not know of any Western
historians except a few German and French
historians and one or two British historians
who
have paid attention to personalities other than
those who belong to their own nation.
Nevertheless, it is a solid fact that the writings
of Arab historians are of a very high standard
and they may be considered as authorities in
their own field because the facts recorded in
fulfil ail the requirements of authenticity.
them
Perhaps the British and American historians
do not know that in writing history our historians
exercised the same caution as they did in collecting
the Traditions of the Holy Prophet. They
scrutinised the contents of the material they incorporated
and they themselves identified along
with others the narrators through whom this material
reached them. Thus they brought historiography
closer to the science of Traditions.
It is
true that those who scrutinised Hadlth Traditions
(
of the Prophet) were more careful, because the
subject of Hadlth was the person ; of the Holy
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