{
 "id": "concept/isnad",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "isnad",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الإسناد",
  "en": "Isnad"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الإسناد سلسلة الرجال الموصلة إلى متن الحديث: «حدثنا فلان عن فلان» حتى تنتهي الرواية إلى النبي أو الصحابي؛ به عرف المحدثون صحة الخبر من ضعفه، فدرسوا الرجال عدالةً وضبطاً، واتصال السند من انقطاعه. وقد افتتح مسلم صحيحه بالكلام على عظمة الإسناد وصيانته من الكذب، وفيه عن ابن المبارك «الإسناد من الدين، ولولا الإسناد لقال من شاء ما شاء» {cite:sahih-muslim muqaddima}، حتى قيل إنه من خصائص هذه الأمة.",
  "en": "The isnad is the chain of men linking a hadith's text back to the Prophet or a Companion — 'so-and-so told us from so-and-so'; by it the muhaddithun judged a report sound or weak, examining narrators for integrity and precision and the chain for continuity. Muslim opened his Sahih with the isnad's dignity and its guarding against fabrication, so that it came to be counted among this community's distinguishing marks."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/rashidun",
  "period/umayyad",
  "period/abbasid-early"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "scripture-and-its-sciences"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "term",
  "sources": [
   "source/sahih-muslim"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مقدمة صحيح مسلم في الإسناد والرواية؛ صياغة المتحف",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "run": "hadith-section-1"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الإسناد سلسلة الرجال الموصلة إلى متن الحديث، على صيغة «حدثنا فلان عن فلان» حتى تنتهي الرواية إلى النبي أو الصحابي. {cite:sahih-muslim}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وظيفته",
     "markdown": "به عرف المحدثون صحة الخبر من ضعفه. فدرسوا الرجال عدالةً وضبطاً، ونظروا في اتصال السند أو انقطاعه. {cite:sahih-muslim}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "في مقدمة صحيح مسلم",
     "markdown": "افتتح مسلم صحيحه بالكلام على عظمة الإسناد وصيانته من الكذب. وقيل إنه من خصائص هذه الأمة. {cite:sahih-muslim}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مفاهيم متصلة",
     "markdown": "انظر [[concept/al-hadith-al-nabawi|الحديث النبوي]] و[[concept/ittisal-al-isnad|اتصال الإسناد]] و[[concept/mustalah-al-hadith|مصطلح الحديث]]."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/isnad",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The *isnad* (chain of transmission) is the series of narrators leading to the text of a hadith, in the form \"so-and-so related to us from so-and-so,\" until the report ends at the Prophet or a Companion. {cite:sahih-muslim}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Its function",
     "markdown": "By it the scholars of hadith knew the soundness of a report from its weakness. They studied the narrators for their probity and precision, and they looked into whether the chain was connected or broken. {cite:sahih-muslim}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the introduction to Sahih Muslim",
     "markdown": "Muslim opened his *Sahih* by speaking of the greatness of the isnad and of its protection from falsehood. It has been said that it is one of the distinctions of this community. {cite:sahih-muslim}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Related concepts",
     "markdown": "See [[concept/al-hadith-al-nabawi|the Prophetic hadith]], [[concept/ittisal-al-isnad|the continuity of the chain]], and [[concept/mustalah-al-hadith|the terminology of hadith]]."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/isnad",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 8,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "passage/muslim-muqaddima-isnad",
   "type": "mentioned_in",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/sahih-muslim"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "concept/al-hadith-al-nabawi",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "طريق وصول الحديث",
   "sources": [
    "source/sahih-muslim"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "concept/ittisal-al-isnad",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/sahih-muslim"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "concept/mustalah-al-hadith",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/sahih-muslim"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "concept/al-hadith-al-nabawi",
  "concept/mustalah-al-hadith",
  "concept/al-shamail-al-muhammadiyya",
  "concept/al-sira-al-nabawiyya",
  "concept/ittisal-al-isnad",
  "event/ghiyath-fabricated-hadith",
  "event/zindiq-hadith-sifters",
  "passage/arbaun-18"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}