Some Notes On Islam's First Fuqahā' Distilled From Early Hadit Literature

Abstract

SOME NOTES ON ISLAM'S FIRST FUQAH � ' DISTILLED FROM EARLY HADIT LITERATURE BY G.H.A. JUYNBOLL Introduction 1-Hatib al-Bagdadi (392-463/1002-1071) was concerned all his Alife with hadfl. In his El 2 article on him, Sellheim rightly calls him «the great critical systematizer of hadit methodology». That means that he was particularly expert at appraising isnid-s. As we all know, at a certain time in the first/seventh century an authen- tication device called the zsndd, or «chain of authorities», was intro- duced to stem the proliferation of sayings falsely ascribed to the Prophet Muhammad. Producing an lsndd meant mentioning one's authority