Towards Understanding Hadith Exploring Ten Key Issues
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Translator
Hamzah Hassan
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This is a book of answers, not a treatise written from scratch — and that distinction matters. In 1291/1875, while staying in Hyderabad Deccan, Imam al-Laknawī was posed ten questions on the hadith sciences by ʿAllāmah Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Lāhawrī. His responses, gathered here, take up the place of the isnād in matters of religion, among other questions of hadith methodology.
This edition carries annotations by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Abū Ghuddah. It is described as a crucial resource for anyone who works with hadith in any capacity, and it fills a real gap, since so little of this material has been available in English.
The value here is less in a sweeping narrative and more in watching a scholar of Imam al-Laknawī's caliber work through ten genuine questions with the rigor the subject demands — the kind of text a student keeps returning to once the introductory books have been set aside, for the specific, careful reasoning it offers rather than for a general overview.
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About the author
Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi: Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi rahimahullah, born on 26 Dhu'l Qadah 1264 AH in Banda, India, was one of the foremost hadith scholars of 19th-century South Asia. A descendant of the renowned Companion Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (radiyallahu anhu), he demonstrated an exceptional aptitude for Islamic learning from an early age, completing memorization of the Qur'an at ten and leading tarawih prayer the same year. He pursued both the intellectual and transmitted sciences under his father, and completed his formal studies at seventeen, also learning mathematics from his father's uncle and teacher, Mawlana Muhammad Ni'matullah ibn Mawlana Nurullah. Known for his extraordinary love of study and writing, al-Lucknawi produced more than 115 works spanning numerous Islamic sciences. Among his most celebrated compositions is al-Ta'liq al-Munajjad. Despite his remarkably short life, his contributions to hadith scholarship left a lasting imprint on the Islamic intellectual tradition. He passed away in Rabi al-Awwal 1304 AH, at the age of 39.
About the editor
Shoaib Shah: Shoaib Shah is a British translator, editor, and author who has devoted his career to making classical Islamic scholarship accessible to contemporary English readers. He graduated from the seminary Jameʿah Uloomul Qurʾan and later earned a Master of Arts from the Markfield Institute of Higher Education. He went on to teach at his alma mater for roughly eighteen years, lecturing especially on the Qurʾanic sciences and tafsir. For around seventeen years he has worked editorially with Turath Publishing, contributing as translator, editor, or author to a long list of titles across the Islamic sciences. His translations include Ibn Jamaʿa al-Kinani's Etiquette of the Learner (an abridgement of the Tadhkirat al-Samiʿ wa al-Mutakallim), the treatise on the virtues and rulings of Salat al-Tasbih, and Life of the Grave, on the states of the deceased until the Resurrection. He served as editor on Softening the Heart, a rendering of Ibn al-Mubarak's Kitab al-Zuhd wa al-Raqaʾiq, and on Imam al-Ghazali's Book of Counsels, among many others. He has also produced devotional compilations such as Our Lord: Forty Rabbana, and authored short works on the life and character of the Prophet, including A Day in the Life of the Beloved. His output reflects a steady commitment to careful, readable renderings of the tradition.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781915265463
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Turath Publishing
Author
Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi
Pages
239
Translator
Hamzah Hassan
Editor
Shoaib Shah
Year Published
2025
Size
W- | H- | D-
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