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Traditions regarding the life of Muhammad and the early history of Islam were passed down orally for more than a hundred years after the death of Muhammad in 632. Muslim historians say that it was the caliph Uthman (the third caliph, or successor of Muhammad, who had formerly been Muhammad's secretary), who first urged Muslims both to write down the Qur'an in a fixed form, and to write down the hadith. Uthman's labors were cut short ...

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Currently there is little communication between the world of Muslim hadith scholarship and Western academia. Muslim scholars reject the Westerners as 'Orientalists' who are hostile to religion in general and Islam in particular. Western academics tend to dismiss Muslim scholars as irrelevant, bound as they are to millennia-old technique of hadith evaluation by chain of transmission which non-Muslims scholarship regards with skepticism. However, some Muslim scholars have undergone Western academic training and taken up positions betwee ...

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Early Western exploration of Islam consisted primarily of translation of the Qur'an and a few histories, often supplemented with disparaging commentary. In the nineteenth century, scholars made greater attempts at impartiality, and translated and commented upon a greater variety of texts. By the beginning of the twentieth centuries, Western scholars of Islam started to critically engage with the Islamic texts, subjecting them to the same agnostic, searching scrutiny that had previously been applied to Christian texts (see higher criticism). ...

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Muslims who accept hadith believe that trusted hadith are in most cases the words of Muhammad and not the word of God, like the Qur'an. Hadith Qudsi form a partial exception; this small minority of hadith purports to express words spoken by God to Muhammad but not included in the Qur'an, or the sense of them. While both hadith and Qur'an have been translated, most Muslims believe that translations of the Qur'an are inherently deficient, amounting to little more than a commentary upon the text. There is no such belief regarding hadith. ...

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Muslim scholars classify hadith relating to Muhammad as follows: What Muhammad said (qawl) What Muhammad did (fi'l) What Muhammad approved (taqrir) in others' actions. There are also hadith relating to the sayings and doings of the companions, but they may not have the same weight as those about Muhammad. Western scholars note that there is a great overlap between the records of early Islamic traditions. Accounts of early Islam are also to be found in: sira (histories, especially biographies of Muhammad) tafsir (commentary on the Qur'an) ...

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The overwhelming majority of Muslims consider hadiths to be essential supplements to and clarifications of the Qur'an, Islam's holy book. In the matter of what is called fiqh, or Islamic jurisprudence, the Qur'an contains many rules for the behavior expected of Muslims. However, there are many matters of concern, both religious and practical, on which there are no specific Quranic rules. Muslims believe that they can look at the way of life, or sunnah, of Muhammad and his companions to discover what to imitate and ...

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The Sunni canon of hadith took its final form four to five centuries after the death of Muhammad. Later scholars may have debated the authenticity of particular hadith but the authority of the canon as a whole was not questioned. This canon includes: al-Bukhari (d. 870) included 7275 hadiths Muslim b. al-Hajjaj (d. 875) included 9200. Abu Da'ud (d. 888) al-Tirmidhi (d. 892) ...

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