This is the eighth and last 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. Students rarely look into the history of the sciences they study. Why does that history matter so much in the […]

This is the seventh 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. The science of hadith needs a clear starting point: what is its actual core, and where do its boundaries lie? The Core […]

This is the sixth 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. The science of hadith has shifted shape five times across the centuries: categories, terminology, theory, principles, method. What changed each time? The […]

This is the fifth 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. Comprehension matters because understanding is a discipline, not an accident. The Purpose of Comprehension Hadith comprehension serves two purposes: understanding what the […]

This is the fourth 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. What separates a student who merely attends a hadith session from one who is actually building something through it? The act of […]

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 […]