Phillipp Hitti, Francis Clark Murgotten. Houtsma et al. The Rasa'il are such collections of Ahadith as deal with one particular topic out of eight topics into which the contents of the fami' books of hadith may be generally classified. These and other principles of the criticism of the text of Hadith which are described near the end of this book compare favourably with the criteria laid down by William Muir1 and other Western scholars for judging the reliability of traditions. Mas'ud
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