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Later the well-Known Hadith transmitter and successor al-Zuhri considered writing down
the Hadith as
absolutely essential for accurate transmission.
• The most authoritative collection of Hadiths was al-Muwatta compiled by imam Malik Ibn
Anas which
can be termed as a legal text book for in it he employed Hadiths together with the Quran to
establish
points of legal teachings.Legal decision drawn by him were based on deductions from the
Quran, Hadith
and Ijma. It contained 1720 Hadiths
• However, in the late second/early third century A.H, there was a shift towards musnad
collections. In
these, all the hadiths narrated from a certain Companion would fall into one chapter, and all
those from
another would fall in the next chapter, etc. The musnad compilations were divided into
chapters whose
headings were identified by the name of a particular companion, such as, hadiths of Hazrat
Abu Bakr R.A
, hadiths of Hazrat Ali R.A, or hadiths of Abu Huraira etc. The most famous musnad is that of
Ahmed Ibn
Hanbal, which consists of 27647 hadiths.4
Successors of the Successors (Taba’eTabe’een)
M/J 2019
Q2(a) Write an account of the compilation of Hadiths during the period of the
Successors
of the Successors (taba’ al tabe’een). [10]
• From the early third to the early fourth century A.H, a large number of scholars compiled
hadiths. This
period that followed the Successors of the companions is considered the golden age of
Hadith
compilation. Hundreds of thousands of hadiths were compiled by the Successors of the
Successors in