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What are sanad and isnad?

ما السند والإسناد؟

A sanad is the chain of narrators of a hadith back to the Prophet ﷺ. With it Muslims built the science of verifying transmitted reports, which is unique in the history of human transmission.

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The sanad is the chain of narrators of a hadith back to the Prophet. Muslims built on it the science of verifying transmitted reports, which is unique in the history of human transmission. 1

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The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

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