Mutawatir

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Terminology

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Terminology

Isnad — chain of narrators Matn — hadith text Riwayah — narration

technical terms

Musnad — supported Mursal — hurried Ahaad — single narrator Munqati — broken muttasil — uninterrupted isnad Gharib — strange/rare Shadhdh — irregular Munkar — denounced/rejected Mudraj — interpolated Da'if jiddan — very weak Isra'iliyat

Regarding authenticity

Mutawatir — agreed upon Sahih — authentic Hasan — fair Da'if — weak Mawdo — fabricated Mudtarib — shaky

Other

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Mutawatir (Arabic: متواتر) is an Arabic word meaning "consecutive." It is often used as an Islamic term within the science of hadith. A hadith is said to be mutawatir if it was reported by a significant, though unspecified, number of narrators at each level in the chain of narration, thus reaching the succeeding generation through multiple chains of narration leading back to its source. This provides confirmation that the hadith is authentically attributed to its source at a level above reasonable doubt. This is due to its being beyond historical possibility that narrators could have conspired to forge a narration. Hadiths can be mutawatir in both actual text and meaning.

In contrast, an ahaad hadith is a narration the chain of which has not reached a number sufficient to qualfiy as mutawatir.

[edit] See also

• List of notable Muslim reports

[edit] External links

• According to the number of reporters involved at each stage of the isnad from "Introduction to the Sciences of Hadith" by Dr. Suhaib Hasan
• Islamic Law and the Use and Abuse of Hadith by Dr. Mohammad Omar Farooq
• Islamic-awareness.org
• Al-islam.org