In the Islamic study of hadith, an isnād (chain of transmitters) refers to a list of people who passed on a tradition, from the original authority to...

scrutinizing the chain of transmittors (isnad) rather than the actual contents of the hadith (matn), and that scrutiny of isnad alone cannot determine the authenticity...

essentially, upon the number of narrators mentioned at each level in a particular isnād (chain of narrators). In hadith terminology, a hadith is divided into two...

repeat the mantra "The isnad is part of the religion—if not for the isnad, whoever wanted could say whatever they wanted." The isnad literally means "support"...

literature, since hadiths maintain a traditional chain of transmission (isnad); the lack of such a chain for the biographical literature makes it unverifiable...

imprecise form of isnād, or what modern historians call the "collective isnād" or "combined reports". The use of collective isnād meant that a report...

Isnād-cum-matn analysis (ICMA) is a method in hadith studies that seeks to date and trace the evolution of hadith by identifying how variation in the...

with an isnad different from that with Ibn Majah etc. Some scholars have differed with Ibn Hazm and pointed out hidden defects in its isnad – see, al-Fasi...

variants of the same report, but with a different chain of transmitters (isnad). The criteria for establishing the authenticity (sihha) of hadith came...

of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj quoted with: "Formerly one did not ask about the Isnad. But when the fitna started, one said: 'Name us your informants'. One would...