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Sayings and actions attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, preserved through carefully verified chains of narrators.
means A recorded report of what the Prophet Muhammad said, did, or approved of, preserved and passed down through a chain of narrators.
from From Arabic ḥadīth, meaning 'speech,' 'report,' or 'news' — literally something 'new' being told. Its root is tied to the idea of talking, narrating, happening. Over centuries, scholars built an entire science, isnad, to trace each saying back through its chain of tellers, grading reliability the way you'd check sources on a rumor — because at scale, who-said-what-to-whom matters enormously.
- not the quran
- Separate record: what Muhammad said and did, not God's words.
- grading system
- Ranked sahih to weak, based on who said it to whom.
- chain obsession
- Scholars traced every narrator back like a citation audit.
- collected later
- Written down generations after, mostly by memory and word of mouth.