Hadith literature

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Islamic religious literature religious text corpus source of Islamic law

Hadith literature is the body of traditional Islamic texts that record the sayings, actions, and approvals of the Prophet Muhammad, serving as a primary source for Islamic law, theology, and ethics.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Hadith	3
Hadith collections	1
hadith of Prophet Muhammad	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Islamic religious literature ⓘ religious text corpus ⓘ source of Islamic law ⓘ
basedOn	actions of the Prophet Muhammad ⓘ sayings of the Prophet Muhammad ⓘ tacit approvals of the Prophet Muhammad ⓘ
developedIn	10th century CE ⓘ 8th century CE ⓘ 9th century CE ⓘ early Islamic centuries ⓘ
evaluatedBy	hadith criticism ⓘ science of narrators (ʿilm al‑rijal) ⓘ
follows	isnad system ⓘ matn analysis ⓘ
hasPart	Arbaʿin collections ⓘ Hadith commentaries (shuruh) ⓘ Hadith indexes and concordances ⓘ Hadith terminology manuals (mustalah al‑hadith) ⓘ Jami collections ⓘ Musnad collections ⓘ Mustadrak collections ⓘ Muʿjam collections ⓘ Sahih collections ⓘ Sunan collections ⓘ biographical evaluation works (ʿilm al‑rijal) ⓘ
includesConcept	ahad hadith ⓘ daʿif hadith ⓘ hasan hadith ⓘ maqtuʿ hadith ⓘ marfuʿ hadith ⓘ mawquf hadith ⓘ mutawatir hadith ⓘ sahih hadith ⓘ
influences	Islamic jurisprudence schools ⓘ Islamic moral norms ⓘ Islamic ritual practice ⓘ Islamic social customs ⓘ
language	Classical Arabic ⓘ
partOf	Islamic tradition ⓘ
preserves	Sunna of the Prophet Muhammad ⓘ
primarySourceFor	Shia Islam ⓘ Sunni Islam ⓘ
secondaryTo	Quran ⓘ
studiedIn	ʿilm al‑hadith ⓘ
transmittedBy	chains of narrators (isnads) ⓘ
usedFor	Islamic ethics ⓘ Islamic legal reasoning (ijtihad) ⓘ Islamic theology (aqidah) ⓘ Quranic exegesis (tafsir) ⓘ deriving Islamic law (fiqh) ⓘ

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Islamic ethics → basedOn → Hadith literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hadith

Jami al-Tirmidhi → focus → Hadith literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: hadith of Prophet Muhammad

Dar al-Islam → influencedBy → Hadith literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hadith

Hijra → mentionedIn → Hadith literature ⓘ

Hijrah of Prophet Muhammad → mentionedIn → Hadith literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hadith collections

Isha → mentionedIn → Hadith literature ⓘ

Moses → mentionedIn → Hadith literature ⓘ

Hajj → scripturalSource → Hadith literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hadith

Yahya → scripturalSource → Hadith literature ⓘ

Isra → traditionSource → Hadith literature ⓘ

Classical Arabic → usedIn → Hadith literature ⓘ