Biographical evaluation

Islamic religious studies to distinguish reliable from unreliable hadith

Biographical evaluation refers to a discipline of Islamic religious studies within hadith terminology in which the narrators of hadith are evaluated. Its goal is to establish the credibility of the narrators, using both historic and religious knowledge, in order to distinguish authentic and reliable hadiths from unreliable hadiths. ʿIlm ar-rijāl is synonymous with what is commonly referred to as al-jarḥ wa al-taʿdīl – the criticism and declared acceptance of hadith narrators.

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