This is the third in a series of articles on mastering the hadith sciences, drawn from Shaykh Issam Eido’s seminar. The full seminar can be found here: Mastering the Core Islamic Sciences: Hadith. Why would scholars keep seeking license to transmit hadith, long after every major collection had already been compiled? Ongoing Transmission By the […]

This is the second in a series of articles on mastering the hadith sciences, drawn from Shaykh Issam Eido’s seminar. You can find the full seminar here: Mastering the Core Islamic Sciences: Hadith. What did scholars want to preserve as hadith collection continued into the late second century? The answer had narrowed: the words of […]

This is the first in a series of articles drawn from Shaykh Issam Eido’s seminar on mastering hadith. The full seminar can be found here: Mastering the Core Islamic Sciences: Hadith. Mastering the Core Islamic Sciences is a regular series at SeekersGuidance which looks at a specific discipline from the revealed sacred sciences, with the […]

This is the ninth and last in a series on mastering the Hanafi school, drawn from a seminar delivered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani and Shaykh Talal al-Azem. The full seminar is available here. A person may rightfully ask what the history of the Hanafi school means for us today. Did Islamic jurisprudence freeze with the […]