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'''Dirayat al-ḥadith''' (Arabic: درایة الحدیث, comprehension of hadith) is a branch of [[hadith]]-related Islamic disciplines. This discipline is concerned with the narration and comprehension of hadiths. There are differences between [[Shiite]] and [[Sunni]] definitions of diraya al-hadith. Many works have been authored concerning diraya al-hadith.

The word "dirayat" and its cognates have been used in [[Sunni]] [[hadith]]s narrated from [[the Prophet (s)]], though sometimes with different words, such as "knowledgeable people are concerned with observation (Arabic: الرعایة,al-ri'ayat) and unwise people are concerned with narration (Arabic:الروایة,al-riwayat)". In another hadith from the Prophet (s), the person who knows and understands hadiths has been preferred to one who just narrates them.