Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

6 — KINDS OF HADÎTH-I SHERÎFS
Kinds of hadîth-i sherîfs are defined as follows in the one
hundred and thirty-sixth page of the first chapter of the book
entitled Makhzan-ul’ulûm, [1] which was printed in Istanbul in the
hijrî year 1308, and in the third page of the book entitled Eshi’atul-lam’ât:
[2]
1— Hadîth-i mursel: Hadîths that are quoted by one of the
Tâbi’în directly in the name of Rasûlullah’s ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa
sallam’ utterance without the name of any of the Sahâba ‘radiy-
Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum ajma’în’ being mentioned.
2— Hadîth-i musnad: Hadîths that are quoted together with
the name of the Sahabî ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum ajma’în’ who
ascribes them to Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’.
Musnad hadîths are either muttasil or munqati’:
3— Hadîth-i musnad-i muttasil: Hadîths that are ascribed to
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ by an unbroken chain of
transmitters; that is, not even one of their transmitters is lacking.
4— Hadîth-i musnad-i munqati’: Hadîths whose one or more
transmitters, except the Sahabî ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum
ajma’în, are not recorded.
5— Hadîth-i mawsûl: Is the kind of hadîth-i musnad-i muttasil
which the Sahabî ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum ajma’în’ quoted by
saying, “I have heard Rasûlullah say so.” Such hadîths are called
Hadîth-i marfû’ in the thirty-fourth page of the translation of the
second volume of Mawâhib-i ladunniyya [3] and in the forty-second
hadîth in Imâm-i-Nawawî’s ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’ [4] Hadîth-i
arba’în, translated by ’Ahmad Na’îm Bey ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ
’alaih’ (1290 [1872 A.D.] – August 14 th. 1352 [1934], Istanbul).
[1] By Muhammad Tâhir.
[2] By ’Abd-ul-Haqq Dahlawî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’ of India (958
[1551 A.D.] – 1052 [1642].)
[3] By Imâm ’Ahmad bin Muhammad Shihâb-ud-dîn Qastalânî (821
[1418 A.D.] – 923 [1517], Egypt).
[4] Yahyâ bin Sheref Nawawî (631 [1233 A.D.] – 676 [1277], Damascus).
Please see thirteenth through twenty-third paragraphs in the previous
chapter.
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