Hadith Books

Book SynopsisThe studies in this volume go beyond the question of the authenticity of Prophetic narrations, which has occupied the field of Hadith Studies for over a century. By approaching hadith narrations and literature from various perspectives, the authors seek to uncover the potential that hadith material has to better understand the intellectual and social history of Muslim societies. Applying concepts and methods from other disciplines, the authors study the materiality of hadith collections, the places they were read, and the ways they were incorporated in architecture. Additionally, they explore understudied genres such as the forty-hadith, the faḍāʾil, aḥādīth al-aḥkām, and ʿawālī collections. As such, they set a new course to push the field of Hadith Studies in a new direction.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: Beyond Authenticity Alternative Approaches to Hadith and Hadith Literature  Mohammad Gharaibeh 1 Compilation Criticism Exploring Overarching Structures in the Six Books  Stephen R. Burge 2 Teaching Islam in Yemen Insights from Two Forty Hadith Collections  Scott C. Lucas 3 The Prophet’s Ideal in Pocket-Size Sunni Forty Hadith Collections  Swantje Bartschat 4 The aḥādīth al-aḥkām Genre and the Ḥanbalī School  Jewel Jalil 5 The ʿawālī Genre and Its Social Dimension  Mohammad Gharaibeh 6 For the Love of the Prophet Faḍāʾil in the Early Modern Ottoman Context  Dženita Karić 7 “As If the Prophet Stood in Front of You” The Performative Meaning of Hadith Transmission and Its Prophetological Background in Late Formative Sunnism  Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino 8 Old Is the New Authentic Arabic Papyri as a Source for Early Hadith  Ursula Bsees 9 The Materiality of Hadith Scholarship in the Post-Canonical Period  Konrad Hirschler 10 Where Was Hadith Read in Damascus? Audition Notices and the Loci of Hadith Transmission in Medieval Damascus  Garrett Davidson 11 The Word of the Beloved Prophet of Islam Hadiths Inscribed on Cairo’s Islamic Architecture  Noha Abou-Khatwa 12 Hadith Inscriptions in Medieval Anatolian Architecture The Case of the Qaraṭay Madrasa in Konya and the Great Mosque in Birgi  Mehmetcan Akpınar Index

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Book SynopsisDalā’il al-Nubuwwa literature that is centered on narratives from the Prophet Muḥammad’s life has most commonly been viewed, or even dismissed, as the product of popular veneration. Building extensive research on biographical and bibliographical sources, this book demonstrates that Dalā’il al-Nubuwwa literature emerged among the circles of early ḥadīth scholars of the late 2nd/8th century. By analyzing extant texts of Dalā’il al-Nubuwwa regarding their sources, structures, methodological approaches, and selection of contents, it showcases that these works were part of epistemological discourses on prophecy that transcended religious boundaries as well as the dividing lines between various Muslim scholarly disciplines.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction  1 Historiography, Hagiography, and the Marginalization of Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Literature  2 Are Miracles Categorically “Popular”?  3 Hagiology as an Analytical Tool 1 The Scholar and the Storyteller?—Quṣṣāṣ in Early Islam  1 Authenticated and Unauthenticated Approaches  2 ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr and the “Authenticated” Traditions  3 Wahb b. Munabbih and the “Unauthenticated” Traditions  4 Comparative Analysis: The Accounts of the Hijra according to ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr and Wahb b. Munabbih  4.1 ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr’s Account of the Hijra  4.2 Wahb b. Munabbih’s Account of the Hijra  4.3 A Detailed Comparison between the Hijra Accounts of ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr and Wahb b. Munabbih  4.4 Miracles in the Corpus of ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr 2 Biographies of the Earliest Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Authors  1 The First Generation  2 The Second Generation  3 The Third Generation  4 The Fourth Generation  5 The Evolution of Early Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Authors 3 Methodological and Structural Approaches in dalāʾil al-nubūwa Literature  1 Methodologies of Authentication in Early Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Works  1.1 Al-Jūzajānī’s “Amārāt al-Nubūwa”  1.2 Ibn Saʿd’s “ʿ⁠Alamāt al-nubūwa”  1.2.1 The Question of Unauthenticated Materials in Ibn Saʿd’s Ṭabaqāt  1.2.1 Muḥammad’s Encounter with Umm Maʿbad  1.2.2 Muḥammad’s Encounter with Surāqa  1.2.3 The Cobweb and the Pigeon 1.2.2 “Popular” Materials in Ibn Saʿd’s Chapters on the Signs of Prophecy  2 Methodologies of Authentication in Later Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Works  2.1 al-Khargūshī’s Sharaf al-Nabī  2.2 Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī’s Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa  2.3 Al-Bayhaqī’s Dalāʾil al-nubūwa  3 Structure and Arrangement of Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Works  3.1 Ibn Saʿd’s “ʿAlamāt al-Nubūwa”  3.2 Al-Khargūshī’s Sharaf al-Nabī  3.3 Abū Nuʿāym al-Iṣfahānī’s Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa  3.4 Al-Bayhaqī’s Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa 4 Content Analysis of Early Extant Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Works  1 Maʿmar b. Rāshid’s “Bāb al-Nubūwa”  2 Ibn Saʿd’s “ʿ⁠Alamāt al-Nubūwa”  2.1 Announcement or Prediction of Prophecy  2.1.1 Monotheistic Predictions  2.1.2 Previous Prophets  2.1.3 Predictions by Pagans  2.2 Water- and/or Food-Related “Miracles”  2.3 Natural Phenomena  2.4 Events in the Prophet’s Childhood  2.5 States of the Prophet  2.6 Interactions with the Divine  2.7 Hidden Knowledge  2.8 Material Transformation and Healing  3 Al-Bukhārī’s “ʿ⁠Alāmāt al-Nubūwa fī l-Islām”  4 al-Jūzajānī’s “Amārāt al-Nubūwa”  4.1 Food-Related Incidents as “Proofs of Prophecy”  4.2 The Prophet’s Character as “Proof of Prophecy”  4.3 Light as “Proof of Prophecy”  4.4 Interactions with the Divine  5 al-Tirmidhī’s “Bāb mā jāʾ fī ayāt Nubūwa al-Nabī wa-mā qad khaṣṣa Allāh bihi”  5.1 Food/Water Related Incidents  5.2 Natural Phenomena 5 Ibn Saʿd’s “Proofs of Prophecy” and Its Intellectual Landscape  1 Political and Religious Impulses on the Notion of Prophecy  2 Christian-Muslim Encounters in the Early ʿ⁠Abbāsid Period  3 Analysis: Approaches to Christian Apologetic Literature  3.1 Christians Addressing Muḥammad’s Prophetic Status and Islam’s Role in Sacred History  3.2 Islam as a Vehicle for Muḥammad’s Personal Gain or Immoral Behavior  3.3 Miracles  4 Ibn Saʿd and Christian Apologetics  5 Muslim Discourse on Pre-Qurʾānic Annunciations of Muḥammad  5.1 The Kitāb al-Maghāzī of Ibn Isḥāq (d. 150/767) 6 Recurring Themes in Later Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Literature  1 Al-Khargūshī’s Sharaf al-nabī  2 Abū Nuʿ⁠aym al-Iṣfahānī’s Dalāʾil al-nubūwa  3 Al-Bayhaqī’s Dalāʾil al-nubūwa  4 Theology in Later Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Works  4.1 Theology in Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī’s Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa  4.2 Theology in al-Bayhaqī’s Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa  5 Conclusion Epilogue: Dalāʾil al-nubūwa and the Promise of Comparative Hagiology Appendix: A Detailed Comparison between ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr and Wahb b. Munabbih Bibliography Index

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