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History of Islam
Basic Terms 6
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Undergraduate 3
02/03/2007

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Term
hadith
Definition
a report of something the Prophet said or did
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isnad
Definition
chain of transmission of a story, to know whether a particular tradition is authentic, one must study the record of its transmission. If each of the transmitters in the chain of transmission is a reliable character and chain is complete and continuous, then the report is reliable.
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Ulama
Definition
the Muslim scholars
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Ibn Ishaq’s (d. 767) Sira
Definition
the most famous biography of the Prophet
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The Sunna
Definition
the precedent of the Prophet, the words and actions of the prophet
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Shariah
Definition
the ideal system of Islamic law
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