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Sources and References

All references given in this book without an indication of the source are to the Holy Quran, by chapter and verse numbers. In the alphabetical list below, short names of sources as used in references in this book (e.g., Abu Dawud, Bukhari) are printed in bold.

  • Abu Dawud: Sunan of Abū Dāwūd (Hadith collection).

  • Ameer Ali, Syed, The Personal Law of the Mahommedans, London, 1880.

  • Ameer Ali, Syed, The Spirit of Islam, Calcutta, 1902.

  • Bukhari: Al-Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (Hadith collection).

  • Encyclopaedia of Islam, first edition, E.T. Brill, Leyden.

  • Fatḥ al-Bayān fī maqāṣid al-Qur’ān by Siddiq ibn Hasan ibn Ali al-Bukhari, al-Miriya Press, Cairo, 1301 A.H.

  • Al-Hidāyah by Abu-l-Hasan Ali ibn Abi Bakr al-Marghinani, edition printed in Delhi, 1914.

  • Hughes, Thomas Patrick, A Dictionary of Islam, W.H. Allen, London, 1885.

  • Ibn Jarir: Ibn Jarīr Ṭabarī, Jāmi‘ al-Bayān fī Tafsīr al-Qur’ān, al-Maimana Press, Cairo.

  • Ibn Majah: Sunan of Ibn Mājah Qazwīnī (Hadith collection).

  • Lane: Arabic-English Lexicon by E.W. Lane.

  • Lisān al-‘Arab (Dictionary).

  • Al-Mawāqif by al-Qadi Abdur-Rahman ibn Ahmad, al-Sa‘ada Press, Cairo, 8 vols.

  • Miftāḥ al-Sa‘ādah by Ahmad ibn Mustafa, Hyderabad Deccan.

  • Mishkat: Al-Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ, by Shaikh Wali-ud-Din Muhammad ibn Abdullah. References are to the Arabic-Urdu edition, translated by Maulana Abdul Hakim Khan Akhtar Shahjahan­puri, published in Lahore, 1985.

  • Muir, Sir William, The Caliphate, Its Rise, Decline and Fall, Edinburgh: John Grant, Revised Edition, 1924.

  • Muslim: Al-Ṣaḥīḥ al-Muslim (Hadith collection).

  • Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, al-Maimana Press, Cairo, 1306 A.H.

  • Nasa’i: Sunan of Nasā’ī (Hadith collection).

  • Al-Nihāyah fī Gharībi-l-Ḥadīth wa-l-Āthār (Dictionary of Hadith) by Ibn Athīr.

  • Qāmūs (Dictionary) by Shaikh Nasr al-Huraini, Cairo.

  • Raghib: Al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī, Al-Mufradāt fī Gharīb al-Qur’ān (Dictionary of the Quran).

  • Razi: Imām Fakhar-ud-Dīn Rāzī, Al-Tafsīr al-Kabīr, al-‘Amira Press, 1307 A.H., 8 volumes.

  • Rūḥ al-Ma‘ānī, Commentary of the Quran by Mahmud al-Alusi.

  • Suyuti: Jalāl-ud-Dīn Suyūṭī, Itqān fī ‘Ulūm al-Qur’ān, Cairo, 1318 A.H.

  • Suyūṭī, Jalāl-ud-Dīn, Tārīkh al-Khulafā’.

  • Suyūṭī, Jalāl-ud-Dīn, Jāmi‘ al-Ṣaghīr.

  • Tāj al-‘Arūs (Dictionary) by Sayyid Muhammad Murtada al-Husaini.

  • Tirmidhi: Al-Jāmi‘ al-Tirmidhī (Hadith collection).

  • Zād al-Ma‘ād by Allama Shams-ud-Din Abu Abdul Malik, known as Ibn Qayyim, Maimaniyyah Press, Cairo, 1300 A.H.

References to the ‘six reliable’ collections of Hadith

  1. In giving references to the ‘six reliable’ collections of Hadith, namely, Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah and Nasa’i, we have used the numbering of books, chapters and hadith reports as used in the online resource www.sunnah.com. We have also indicated their number­ing in the printed editions pub­lished by Maktaba Dar-us-Salam, of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in cases where the numbering in these editions is different from that of www.sunnah.com.

  2. The above-mentioned sources provide the Arabic text and English translation. The trans­la­tions quoted in this book are by Maulana Muhammad Ali as in his book The Religion of Islam, although in some cases we have amended them a little..

  3. Here is a typical example of one of our references:


    Bukhari, book 10: ‘Call to Prayer’, ch. 54, h. 693.

     

    This refers to book 10 of Bukhari. The name of the book is ‘Call to Prayer’, which is a further help in identi­fying the book and in locating the hadith in other editions of the same collection. Here the chap­ter number within the book is 54, and the hadith number, which runs sequen­tially through Bukhari, is 693.

  1. Below is an example in which a reference to the edition pub­lished by Maktaba Dar-us-Salam (DS) is added because it is different in some respect:


    Abu Dawud, book 26: ‘Knowledge’, ch. 3, h. 3646 (DS: book 24).

    In parentheses, after DS we indicate in which respect the reference is different from the www.sunnah.com reference. In this case in the Maktaba Dar-us-Salam edition, the book number is 24 instead of 26, while the chapter and hadith numbers are the same.

  1. Hadith numbers: In the resource www.sunnah.com, we find that most often there are three hadith numbers appended to each hadith for different pur­poses. The first of these is marked as ‘Reference’ (in bold) and we refer to that whenever it is present. There are other instances where are two hadith numbers, one marked as ‘English reference’ and the other as ‘Arabic reference’, and in these cases we use the ‘English reference’ number. Note that in the DS edition of Sahih Muslim each hadith is prefixed with more than one number (for certain reasons), and in those cases we refer to the first number.