Muslim al-Naysābūrī (d. 261/875): The Sceptical Traditionalist

Motives and Acknowledgments
List of Graphs, Diagrams, and Tables
Conventions

Introduction

1 The State of the Field and Method
 1 Sources and Studies
 2 Method
 3 Technical Terminology
 4 Determining the ḥadīth Transmitters’ Dates of Birth and Death
 5 Determining the Distance between Centers of Learning

2 Iraq and Northeastern Iran in Muslim’s Lifetime: Politics and Intellectual Currents
 1 The City of Naysābūr
 2 The Miḥna
 3 Political Factions
 4 Theological Issues and Intellectual Trends

3 Life and Worldview
 1 Shaykhs and Centers of Learning
 2 Doctrinal Affiliation
 3 Piety
 4 Political Views

4 Muslim’s Theology
 1 Muslim, al-Bukhārī, and the Perception of the Quran
 2 Muslim and the Definition of Faith
 3 Muslim and the Issue of qadar: Synergy between Divine Predestination and Human Agency
 4 Conclusion

5 Muslim’s ḥadīth Criticism
 1 The Delicate Art of Transmitter Evaluation
 2 Muslim’s Criteria of ḥadīth Criticism
 3 Muslim’s Vocabulary of ḥadīth Transmission and Evaluation
 4 Conclusion

6 Muslim’s Works
 1 Extant Works
 2 Works That Are Preserved as Secondary Citations
 3 Lost Works

7 The Ṣaḥīḥ
 1 The Collection’s Title and Purpose of Composition: Muṣannaf, Musnad, and Ṣaḥīḥ
 2 When Did Muslim Compose the Ṣaḥīḥ, and Was It Finished?
 3 Is Muslim’s Ṣaḥīḥ an Appendix to al-Bukhārī’s Ṣaḥīḥ?
 4 Contents and Structure of the Ṣaḥīḥ
 5 Reception and Canonization

8 The Transmission of the Ṣaḥīḥ
 1 The Transmission through Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Sufyān al-Naysābūrī
 2 The Transmission through Abū Muḥammad Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan al-Qalānisī
 3 The Transmission through Makkī b. ʿAbdān
 4 The Transmission through Aḥmad b. al-Sharqī
 5 Other Transmissions of the Ṣaḥīḥ
 6 Manuscripts and Editions

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Isnād Diagrams
Appendix 2: Muslim’s Informants according to al-Mizzī
Appendix 3: Muslim’s Major Shaykhs according to Kitāb al-Zahra, Compared with an Electronic Count in al-Maktaba al-Shāmila and an Alternative Count by Dār al-Taʾṣīl
Appendix 4: Transmitters on Muslim’s Authority
Appendix 5: First/Seventh and Second/Eighth-Century Traditionists Who Made Transmitter-Critical Pronouncements according to Muslim’s Introduction
Appendix 6: Reasons for Transmitter-Critical Pronouncements according to the Introduction to Muslim’s Ṣaḥīḥ
Appendix 7: Muslim’s Kitāb al-Qadar Compared with al-Bukhārī’s Kitāb al-Qadar
Appendix 8: The Number of Books in the Ṣaḥīḥ according to Ibn Manjuwayh, ʿAbd al-Bāqī (= Wensinck, al-Nawawī), and Dār al-Taʾṣīl (= al-Mizzī)
Appendix 9: The Known Sections in Ibn ʿAsākir’s Division of the Ṣaḥīḥ
Appendix 10: The Shaykhs of Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Zakariyyāʾ al-Nasawī
Bibliography
Index of Personal Names
Index of Dynasties and Parties
Index of Geographical Names
Index of Titles of Pre-Modern books
Index of Topics and Terms
Quranic References