Classification of Hadith is done in 3 ways. They are...........
According to number of narrators
According to attribution
According to the authenticity of the narration
According to the life span of the narrators
According to the number of Hadith narrated
According to the frequency of ways of reporting /number of narrators, hadith is divided into ______
2
4
3
6
Hadith divided according to the ways of reporting are:
متواتر
آحاد
مقبول
مردود
Consecutive traditions متواتر refers to those hadith that have _____ or more narrators at every stage.
5
Isolated tradition آحاد refers to hadith that have at least ____ narrators.
The conditions that need to be met to be classified as a متواتر are :
There should be a large number of people who narrated/reported in every generation
Every stage of the narration is continuous
There can be a broken link in some stage of the narration
There is only a small number of people who narrate/report it
The term متواتر was used for this type of Hadith before the time of Imaam Bukhari رحمه الله
Isolated or single traditions أخبار آحاد are divided into ____ which are :
3 مشهور، عزيز، غريب
2 مشهور، عزيز
4 مشهور، عزيز، غريب، معنوي
In the science of Hadith terminology a hadith is classified as a "Famous" hadith حديث مشهور if it has __ narrators
In the science of Hadith terminology a hadith is called Strong حديث عزيز if it has at least ____ narrators in the chain at every stage.
In the science of Hadith terminology a hadith is called "Strange" حديث غريب when there is only ___ narrator in the chain at some stage.
1
