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Diraya al-hadith is, in general, a discipline concerned with issues that contribute to a more reliable narration, a more accurate understanding, and a more precise evaluation of hadiths. However, Shiite and Sunni scholars have provided different definitions or conceptions for the discipline. | Diraya al-hadith is, in general, a discipline concerned with issues that contribute to a more reliable narration, a more accurate understanding, and a more precise evaluation of hadiths. However, Shiite and Sunni scholars have provided different definitions or conceptions for the discipline. | ||
===Definitions of Sunni scholars== | ===Definitions of Sunni scholars=== | ||
Definitions of Sunni scholars may be classified into three. | Definitions of Sunni scholars may be classified into three. | ||
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====Tashkupri Zada==== | ====Tashkupri Zada==== | ||
However, Tashkupri Zada has provided a totally different definition of the disciplines of riwaya al-hadith and diraya al-hadith. He admits that a major part of diraya al-hadith is concerned with the narrative chains of hadiths, but he takes it to discuss the status of narrators with respect to their honesty and reliability and the way hadiths are connected to the Prophet (s), given that some hadiths may be disconnected from the Prophet (s) in their chains of narrators (e.g. at least one person in the chain of narrators is dropped). | However, Tashkupri Zada has provided a totally different definition of the disciplines of riwaya al-hadith and diraya al-hadith. He admits that a major part of diraya al-hadith is concerned with the narrative chains of hadiths, but he takes it to discuss the status of narrators with respect to their honesty and reliability and the way hadiths are connected to the Prophet (s), given that some hadiths may be disconnected from the Prophet (s) in their chains of narrators (e.g. at least one person in the chain of narrators is dropped). | ||
He takes riwaya al-hadith to be a discipline that considers the meanings of the words appearing in hadiths, in accordance with the grammar of the Arabic language, evaluating hadiths with respect to the status of the Prophet (s). | He takes riwaya al-hadith to be a discipline that considers the meanings of the words appearing in hadiths, in accordance with the grammar of the Arabic language, evaluating hadiths with respect to the status of the Prophet (s). | ||