Carrying on the Tradition: A Social and Intellectual History of Hadith Transmission across a Thousand Years

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Author: Garrett Davidson

Book length: 333 pages

Excerpt: Verbatim copying of books without a process of oral/aural verification was viewed with extreme suspicion by most early hadith scholars and was generally not accepted.

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3 questions
1. According to the source, why did hadith scholars continue the practice of transmitting chains of transmission (isnād) after the hadith corpus had been written and preserved?
2. What did an audition notice (samāʿ/ṭabaqah) establish as essential for later oral transmission from a manuscript?
3. Which description best matches ijāzah muṭlaqah as described in the source material?
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