Sources of Cited Traditions

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This paper simplifies the sources of hadiths by only referencing the respective hadith-book titles.

Anyone accustomed to the scientific analysis of hadiths, and who wants to see into the respective sources with the original texts, could apply and access these references with ease.

To further simplify retracing the origins of citations, this paper also cites the Arabic text passages from the sources. Almost all citations are taken from al-Maktabatu sh-Shamilah, a digital library containing thousands of books. All extracts below are identically paraphrased as published in the library; except for a few, which were slightly corrected after comparing them with the wording of other editions of the same books.

It is effortlessly possible to retrace the original passages in the sources by using the texts or parts of texts below.

It should be noted that for the sake of brevity – apart from the last narrator – narration-chains are not further depicted. In some cases, however, peculiarities in transmission-chains are pointed out and other persons, in addition to the last narrator, are named.

Acknowledgements

First and foremost, I would like to thank our Creator سبحانه وتعالى⁴ for all His extensive blessings and particularly for enabling me to write this paper. After that I would like to thank my family for their support and everyone, who proofread the manuscript and contributed to the realisation of this paper.