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Al-Bayhaqi's writings reflected the new Shafi'i orthodoxy. Works like Sunan al-Kubra and Al-Sunan al-Wusta championed the body of substantive law of the school and the Shafi'i transmission-based legal methodology. [26] Al-Bayhaqi represents the school's steadfast adherence to the hadith's primacy, which its founder had argued for. [27]
Sunan al-Kubra lil Bayhaqi, (Arabic: ٱلسُّنَن ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ لِلْبَيْهَقِيّ), or Al-Sunan al-Kabir (Arabic: ٱلسُّنَن ٱلْكَبِير) is a prominent and massive multi-volume Hadith book compiled, edited and catalogued by Imam Al-Bayhaqi (384 AH – 458 AH).
Bayhaqi was born in Sabzevar, in northeastern Iran, the main city of the Bayhaq district, where his father’s estates were located. [1]In 1114, Bahyaqi along with his father visited Omar Khayyam, the famous Persian mathematician and astronomer, in Nishapur and while there Bayhaqi began his education in literature and science.
The Nine Hadith books that are indexed in the world renowned Hadith concordance (Al-Mu’jamul Mufahras li Alfadhil Hadithin Nabawi) [1] that includes al-Sihah al-Sittah (The Authentic Six), Muwatta Imam Malik, Sunan al-Darimi, and Musnad Ahmad.
Bayhaqi was born in the village of Harethabad in Bayhaq in the Khorasan Province to a Persian family. [1] In his youth Bayhaqi studied in the major cultural center of Nishapur, and later in 1020/1 joined the secretariat (dīvān-e resālat) of Mahmud, where he worked as an assistant and pupil under the chief secretary Abu Nasr Mushkan for 19 years.
Hadith terminology (Arabic: مصطلح الحديث, romanized: muṣṭalaḥu l-ḥadīth) is the body of terminology in Islam which specifies the acceptability of the sayings attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad by other early Islamic figures of significance such as the companions and followers/successors.
Al-Mustadrak 'ala al-Sahihayn (Arabic: المستدرك على الصحيحين) or Mustadrak Al Hakim (Arabic: مستدرك الحاكم) is a five volume hadith collection written by Hakim al-Nishapuri (Nishapur is located in Iran). He wrote it in the year AH 393 (1002–1003 CE), when he was 72 years old.
The scholars of the science of hadith criticism hold that a khabar and, therefore, a hadith can be a true report or a concoction. It is on the basis of this premise that the Muslim scholars hold that a hadith offers a ẓannī (inconclusive/probably true) evidence. It is as though a hadith may have many possibilities on the plane of reliability ...