Divisions of Hadith
Divisions of Hadith
Divisions of Hadith
HADITH
RECURRENT
HADITH
( MUTAWATIR )
VERBAL
RECURRENT
(MUTAWATIR ALLAFZI)
SOLITARY
HADITH
( AHAD )
CONCEPTUAL
RECURRENT
(MUTAWATIR ALMANAWI)
What is Mutawatir?
= successive
A successive narration conveyed by
numerous narrators that they cannot
be expected to agree upon a lie, all
of them together
CONDITIONS OF MUTAWATIR
HADITH
1) At least four different people must
have narrated the hadith.
2) Must be impossible for those four
people to concur a lie.
3) The narration of hadith must be rely
on the mind and senses.
VERBAL RECURRENT
( Mutawatir al-Lafzi )
Example :
CONCEPTUAL RECURRENT
( Mutawatir al-Manawi )
Example :
A large number of narrators reported
that :
Muhammad enjoined Muslims to
perform two ra'kat in Fajr, four ra'kat in
Dhuhr, Asr and Esha and three ra'kat
in the Maghrib prayer, yet the
narrations of all the reporters who
reported the number of ra'kat are not
in the same words.