RELG 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Khabar Agency, Sunan Abu Dawood, Zaidiyyah
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Apart form the quran, substantial other material grew up around the story of. Hadith, as we have already noted, referee to any surviving record concerning. Muhammad that derives from one who met muhammad that derives from on who met. Muhammad and was a muslim when muhammad died. Most hadith do not show particular concern with when or where the material in them took place. Khabar are historical reports, of which sira, material primarily focused upon the life of. Muhammad, form a subset (or, we can look at it as sir being made up of akhbar. As island is a recorded chain of transmission for either a hadith or a khabar/sira. Each hadith is made up of two parts - the report itself, and the island recounting its transmission. The hadith are best preserved on the basis of collections that were put together initially during the umayyad and then systematically in the abbasid period int he 8th and 9th centuries.