Ways of Identifying and Detecting the Interpolations into the Hadith Texts

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Mojtaba Poormusa ¹
• Mohammadkazem Rahman Setayesh ²

¹ Ph.D. Student, Department of Quran and Hadith Studies, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Qom, Qom, Iran

² Associate Professor, Department of Quran and Hadith Studies, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Qom, Qom, Iran

10.22067/jquran.2024.81699.1653

Abstract

"Hadith" as the narrator of the tradition, is one of the most important main sources in the inference of religious Laws and Islamic teachings. In the process of transmitting the narrative heritage up to the present day, some hadiths have undergone different defects, such as interpolations into their text. The number of such texts is low. Still, the researcher has to detect them in the validation process of the hadith, as well as its understanding and admission as authoritative. This paper seeks to answer the question, what are the ways of detecting interpolations into the hadiths? So, through a descriptive-analytical method and using written sources and existing documents, it tries to identify the main ways of detecting interpolations into the hadiths. Some of these ways are: using manuscripts, analyzing research text, employing the science of Takhrij and identifying references of the narration, and considering the role of the narrator in the process of transmission of narrative heritage.

Keywords

• Interpolating
• Ways of detecting the interpolation
• Textual analysis
• Validation of hadith
• Mudraj tradition

Main Subjects

• Quran and Hadith Studies

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