Department Of Hadith

PURPOSE:

The science of Hadith studies the sayings ascribed to and reports about the Prophet Muhammad, uniformly called hadith, and the historical development of their transmission chains (sanad) and texts (matn). Its main research areas are the source value and authenticity of hadith and sunnah, their transmission, recording, collection, and classification, and the religious, political, and socio-cultural variables affecting these processes. The Department, at the undergraduate and graduate level, focuses particularly on the nature, efficiency, and problems of the sources of hadith and traditional hadith methodology.