At a glance
- Era
- The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Overview
The first generation differed over writing hadith: both prohibition and permission were transmitted, and the prevailing reports favor permission — the author presents 'Abd Allah b. 'Amr b. al-'As's sheet called al-Sadiqa, written with the Prophet ﷺ's leave; the Muslims afterwards agreed to broaden the license, without which knowledge would have perished in later ages 123. Ibn al-Salah reconciles the conflicting reports: permission went to those feared forgetful, prohibition to those trusted for memory — or lest hadith be mixed with sheets of the Qur'an 4. Compilation followed.
Connections
- Related to
- Hadith· Hadith methodology (mustalah al-hadith)
People and things also explored
Isnad· Transmitting a hadith by its meaning (riwaya bil-maana)· Hadith· Hadith methodology (mustalah al-hadith)· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Criticism and vindication of narrators (jarh wa-ta'dil)
Sources
- The Method of Documenting the Prophetic Sunna — Muhammad Ibrahim al-Fayyumi , p. 28
- The Method of Documenting the Prophetic Sunna — Muhammad Ibrahim al-Fayyumi , p. 29
- The Method of Documenting the Prophetic Sunna — Muhammad Ibrahim al-Fayyumi , p. 31
- The Method of Documenting the Prophetic Sunna — Muhammad Ibrahim al-Fayyumi , p. 30
- The Standing of the Sunna in Explaining the Legal Rulings — Ali al-Khafif
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islam.museum contributors. “Writing down the hadith”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/kitabat-al-hadith/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.