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Some contemporary scholars of diraya al-hadith take all disciplines of hadith (6 such disciplines as they have listed) to be sub-disciplines of diraya al-hadith. But early scholars took all issues discussed in diraya al-hadith to be an independent discipline, without making any demarcations between them. For instance, one important branch of diraya al-hadith is ilm al-rijal (knowledge of the narrators of hadiths, especially with respect to their reliability), many issues of which, such as issues concerning the classes and names of narrators, are separate from, and additional to, issues of diraya al-hadith. The indeterminacy of the boundary between diraya al-hadith and other disciplines of hadith has led to confusions about the date when the first work in diraya al-hadith has been written. Whereas some independent works concerning some sub-disciplines of diraya al-hadith date back to sometime before the fourth century A.H. (tenth century), the first independent work in diraya al-hadith is taken to be that of Ramhurmuzi which is written in 360 A.H. (970). | Some contemporary scholars of diraya al-hadith take all disciplines of hadith (6 such disciplines as they have listed) to be sub-disciplines of diraya al-hadith. But early scholars took all issues discussed in diraya al-hadith to be an independent discipline, without making any demarcations between them. For instance, one important branch of diraya al-hadith is ilm al-rijal (knowledge of the narrators of hadiths, especially with respect to their reliability), many issues of which, such as issues concerning the classes and names of narrators, are separate from, and additional to, issues of diraya al-hadith. The indeterminacy of the boundary between diraya al-hadith and other disciplines of hadith has led to confusions about the date when the first work in diraya al-hadith has been written. Whereas some independent works concerning some sub-disciplines of diraya al-hadith date back to sometime before the fourth century A.H. (tenth century), the first independent work in diraya al-hadith is taken to be that of Ramhurmuzi which is written in 360 A.H. (970). | ||
With regard to the relation between riwaya al-hadith and diraya al-hadith, it should be said that the relation between diraya al-hadith and the texts of hadiths has sometimes been taken to be like the relation between an exegesis and the text that it interprets or that between judgments and events, and sometimes it has been taken to be like the relation between [[usul al-fiqh]] and [[fiqh]] or [[nahw]] (Arabic grammar) and iʾrab (that is, modulation of words and declensions). | With regard to the relation between riwaya al-hadith and diraya al-hadith, it should be said that the relation between diraya al-hadith and the texts of hadiths has sometimes been taken to be like the relation between an exegesis and the text that it interprets or that between judgments and events, and sometimes it has been taken to be like the relation between [[usul al-fiqh]] and [[fiqh]] or [[nahw]] (Arabic grammar) and iʾrab (that is, modulation of words and declensions). | ||
==A classification of hadith-related disciplines== | ==A classification of hadith-related disciplines== | ||
The classification of hadith-related disciplines into fiqh al-hadith (understanding hadiths), ilm al-rijal, and diraya al-hadith is a recent classification that has come to be widely accepted and known. Though this has been an attempt to improve upon the extant classifications of the disciplines of hadith, there are reservations about its applicability to, and inclusiveness of, all disciplines of hadiths as they are conceived by early scholars. Notwithstanding this, there is no doubt that Shiite scholars have long been attentive to the distinction between issues of diraya al-hadith and ilm al-rijal. In addition to ilm al-rijal and diraya al-hadith, another hadith-related discipline has also been mentioned as "ʾilm al-asnād", and the former two have sporadically been taken to be its sub-disciplines, though they take them all to be independent of one another. | The classification of hadith-related disciplines into fiqh al-hadith (understanding hadiths), ilm al-rijal, and diraya al-hadith is a recent classification that has come to be widely accepted and known. Though this has been an attempt to improve upon the extant classifications of the disciplines of hadith, there are reservations about its applicability to, and inclusiveness of, all disciplines of hadiths as they are conceived by early scholars. Notwithstanding this, there is no doubt that Shiite scholars have long been attentive to the distinction between issues of diraya al-hadith and ilm al-rijal. In addition to ilm al-rijal and diraya al-hadith, another hadith-related discipline has also been mentioned as "ʾilm al-asnād", and the former two have sporadically been taken to be its sub-disciplines, though they take them all to be independent of one another. | ||
===The separation between diraya al-hadith and ilm al-rijal for Shiite scholars=== | ===The separation between diraya al-hadith and ilm al-rijal for Shiite scholars=== | ||
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===The formation of hadith-related terminologies=== | ===The formation of hadith-related terminologies=== | ||
Some terminologies of hadith-related disciplines are formed in the third century A.H (9th century). In this period, scholars of hadith and ʾilm al-rijal discussed some issues of diraya al-hadith in the introduction of their books; issues such as the manners of hearing a hadith and delivering it to others, types of acceptable and unacceptable hadiths, and classes of narrators of hadiths. According to Nur al-Din Eter, al-ʾIlal by al-Turmudhi (d. 279 A.H./ 892), which is published at the end of his Jamiʾ, is distinguished for its definitions of some terms in diraya al-hadith and the introduction of its issues. | Some terminologies of hadith-related disciplines are formed in the third century A.H (9th century). In this period, scholars of hadith and ʾilm al-rijal discussed some issues of diraya al-hadith in the introduction of their books; issues such as the manners of hearing a hadith and delivering it to others, types of acceptable and unacceptable hadiths, and classes of narrators of hadiths. According to Nur al-Din Eter, al-ʾIlal by al-Turmudhi (d. 279 A.H./ 892), which is published at the end of his Jamiʾ, is distinguished for its definitions of some terms in diraya al-hadith and the introduction of its issues. | ||
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