Muslim Tradition: Studies in Chronology, Provenance and Authorship of Early Hadith »

G. H. A. Juynboll undertakes a broad-ranging review of the closely linked questions of date, authorship and origin of hadiths.

1. A tentative chronology of the origins of Muslim;
2. The role of qadis in the spreading of traditions;
3. The man kadhaba tradition and the prohibition of lamenting the dead. An investigation into mutawatir traditions;
4. An appraisal of muslim hadith criticism. Rijal works as depositories of transmitters' names;
5. 'Accepting the traditions means knowing the men'.