In the Islamic study of hadith, an isnād (chain of transmitters) refers to a list of people who passed on a tradition, from the original authority to...

hadith correlates with the variation in the listed chain of transmitters (isnād) across multiple versions of the same report. Modern academic study of hadith...

of companions of Muhammad. Ṣāḥīḥ (صحيح) "Sound in isnad." A technical attribute applied to the "isnad" of a hadith. Sakīnah (سكينة) divine "tranquility"...

within the isnād and is referred to using specific terminology accordingly as discussed below. Discontinuity in the beginning of the isnād, from the end...

imprecise form of isnād, or what modern historians call the "collective isnād" or "combined reports". The use of collective isnād meant that a report...

(sanad سند, also isnād اسناد, or silsila سِلْسِلَة), relaying each hadith from the Prophet to the person who compiles the hadith. The isnād and the commentary...

Isnād-cum-matn analysis (ICMA) is a method in hadith studies that seeks to date and trace the evolution of hadith by identifying how variation in the...

to memorize or to preserve what he wrote, with a muttaṣil ("connected") isnād[broken anchor] ("chain of narration") that contains neither a serious concealed...

repeat the mantra "The isnad is part of the religion—if not for the isnad, whoever wanted could say whatever they wanted." The isnad literally means "support"...

Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2011. Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, Muqaddima, Bāb anna al-isnād min ad-dīn wa-ʾanna r-riwāya lā takūn illā ʿan aṯ-ṯiqāt G.H.A. Juynboll:...