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Hadith definition

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A report of the sayings or actions of Muhammad or his companions, together with the tradition of its chain of transmission.
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The collective body of these traditions.
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A traditional collection of the sayings of, and biographical anecdotes about, Muhammad.
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Any of these sayings or anecdotes.
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hadith
Plural:
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Origin of hadith

  • Arabic ḥadīṯ report, news, tradition from ḥaddaṯa to report from ḥadaṯa to be new ḥdṯ in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Hadith Sentence Examples

  • He studied the Koran and its traditions (hadith, sunna) there and on a student journey through Mesopotamia, Arabia and Syria.

  • Thus nearly 99% of these hadith were considered spurious.

  • Bukhari [[[Mahommed Ahmed Ibn Seyyid Abdullah|Mahommed ibn]] Isma`il al-Bukhari] (810-872), Arabic author of the most generally accepted collection of traditions (hadith) from Mahomet, was born at Bokhara (Bukhdra), of an Iranian family, in A.H.

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