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The Yemeni hadith scholar ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muʿallimī (d. 1966) spent over two decades in the Deccan as a manuscript editor and proofreader (muṣaḥḥiḥ) at the Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif press in Hyderabad. In his private journal, al-Muʿallimī records some amusing encounters with his fellow proofreaders, like this one, where he corrects a colleague who, even after being proven wrong, gave in gracelessly “not out of agreement, but merely to end the dispute.” As a side note, elsewhere in the journal he discusses the rules for forming plurals in Urdu. I hadn’t realized he knew Urdu; then again, he did spend some 25 years in India.

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4	Ibn Ḥajar's Fatḥ al-Bārī began as basic lecture notes but evolved into a 25-year community project (& mutually "borrowed" notes from ʿAynī :) After burning out on vol. 1, he pivoted to an "intermediate" commentary that became one of the greatest works in Islamic scholarship.	842
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6	Imagine going about your day in Mecca and casually chatting with your neighbor, only to learn later that he was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mahdī (d. 198H) conducting field research. His POV: "This guy had no clue what he was talking about!" Your entire life reduced to a footnote...	1 130
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8	Imam Bukhārī thought the hadith about burning a thief's property in ghulūl cases (pilfering war spoils) had no real basis, yet plenty of the Ahl al-Ḥadīth still used it to justify torching his goods. In his Tarikh, Bukhārī brings counter evidence to show that one's property was never burned for ghulūl. Ultimately, Hadith criticism and Fiqh rulings were not necessarily tightly linked. Scholars rated hadiths differently, and a jurist's view rarely hung on one hadith. Rulings came from multiple sources of evidence, so a hadith one critic dismissed could still do real work for someone else.	1 053
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10	An interesting example of Imam Ahmad recognising a hadith as fabricated despite the trustworthiness of its narrator, likely because of the matn. This does not necessarily imply deliberate forgery. The hadith may simply be erroneous. Ibn Qudamah, al-Muntakhab min al-Khallal, p. 86. The footnotes contain further discussion worth reading.	966
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12	Recently, I delivered a lecture on how to deal with a "problematic" hadith. It's based on a framework that I have found personally helpful and have heard the same from students. Here's the link for those who are interested: https://youtu.be/w_aWMYp28OU?is=ps-8v5pXXLLwNqVq	1 331
13	A biographical note on Sibghatullah Madrasi. The breadth of his books and research interests suggests that his personal reading went well beyond the curricular texts he studied. This ties back to something we often notice: where you study matters, but how and what you study matters more. Mawlana Habibur Rahman A’zami is a good example. His hadith scholarship and editorial mastery were largely self-cultivated. Tldr: read beyond the curriculum, and don’t feel FOMO if you’re not enrolled in a "prestigious" madrasah — that gap can easily be compensated for.	0
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15	Qadi Sibghatullah Madrasi (d. 1863 CE) of South India stands among the most underrated hadith scholars of the 19th century. Beyond his renowned legal acumen, his hadith oeuvre speaks for itself.	0
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18	The_Height_of_Prophet_Adam:_At_the_Crossroads_of_Science_&_Scripture.pdf	0
19	A digital copy of my book examining the interplay between hadith and empirical data (via hadith on the height of Prophet Adam) is available for download. A condensed version was published last year as an article and can also be accessed on my Academia page. https://www.academia.edu/166254604/The_Height_of_Prophet_Adam_At_the_Crossroads_of_Science_and_Scripture	0
20	Ml Yusuf Banuri records a maxim he learned from Ml Anwarshah Kashmiri for reconciling hadith and Quranic verses that seem to conflict with empirical evidence (such as the sun “setting” beneath the Throne): “The Sharīʿah points to underlying causes the intellect cannot fully grasp, without negating observable causal processes.” In other words, Islamic texts often work on two levels at once: the empirically observable and the metaphysically subtle - without contradiction. The sun’s “prostration” is a good example: it simply means the sun's subservience, not a literal claim about cosmology.	0

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