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A thorough and accessible overview of the Hadith literature and the science of Hadith criticism in the pre-modern and modern world is Jonathan Brown, Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (2009). P.K. Koya (compiler and ed.), Hadīth and Sunnah: Ideals and Realities, 2nd ed. rev. (2000), provides a useful introduction to these overlapping concepts and their treatment by Muslim scholars over time.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: CORE - Evolution in the Concept of Sunnah during the First Four Generations of Muslims in Relation to the Development of the Concept of an Authentic Ḥadīth as based on Recent Western Scholarship (PDF). | Mar 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Study of Sunnah: Significance and Challenges. | Oct 06, 2023 | ||
| Bibliography added. | Mar 09, 2018 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 08, 2018 | ||
| Article revised and romanization changed. | May 20, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: Ummah.com - About Islam and Muslims. | Jun 28, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Ummah.com - About Islam and Muslims. | Jun 28, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts - Sunnah and Hadith. | Jun 12, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts - Sunnah and Hadith. | Jun 12, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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