A two-year certificate program which introduces students to the field of Ḥadith​ methodological principles, Ḥadith​​ criticism (the evaluation and authentication of Ḥadith​) and the field of Ḥadith​ literature.

Admission Requirements: No prior knowledge of Hadith is required.
Certificate Requirements: The successful completion of four courses in four terms (two years).
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Term 1: ​​Introduction and Compilation of Ḥadīth​

• Science of Hadith:
  • Definitions and importance of Hadith
  • Terminologies of Hadith.  
• History of Compilation of Hadith:
  • In the era of the Prophet (pbuh)
  • In the time of Sahaba
  • In the time Tabioon and Tābiʿī -Taiboon
  • In the time of Saheeh – Third Century Hijri
• Early Collection of Hadith Literature
  • Saheefa, Juzz etc.
• Relation of Hadith and Fiqh.     

Term 2: Ulūm al-Ḥadīth​

• Text and Chains of Hadith
• Classifications of Hadith
  • According to number of narrators: Āhād and Mashhūr etc.
  • According to muntaha of sanad: Qudsi, Marfūʻ, Mursal etc.
  • According to strength: Ṣaḥīḥ, Hasan, Da‘īf etc.​​
• Classification of Narrators / Rijal
  • Ways of Narration: Samaa, Tahammul, Ijazah etc.
  • Title of Narrators: Imam, Hāfiẓ, Reliable, Abandoned etc.
• Criticism on Narrators
• Famous chains of Hadith Narrations
• Fiqh al-Hadith
• Naskh and Mansūkhin Hadith.

Term 3: ​Muhaddithun and Books of Ḥadīth​

• Muwaṭṭa Imam Malik
• Musannaf Abdur Razzaq and Ibn Abi Shaybah
• Musnad Imam Ahmad
• Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī
• Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim
• Sunan at-Tirmidhī
• Sunan Abī Dāwūd
  
• Sunan Ibn Mājah
• Sunan an-Nasā’ī
• Other books of Hadith, and their classifications  

Term 4: ​​Study of Selected Ḥadīth​ from the Kutub al-Sittah

• Validating Text and Chains
• Study of Contradictions and Resolves
• Case studies
• Contribution of contemporary scholars of Hadith
• Importance of Hadith in our times