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[quote][center]Preview from sacred Hadith project[/center]

[size=2]For our subsequent considerations, it would be convenient to divide ahadith into three main categories:
[b]1. Regulatory Hadith[/b]
Those which record sayings or actions of the Prophet that regulated the life of the Muslim community. They may consist of his orders to the community or to individuals in charge of certain affairs in the community. Or, they may consist of approval of decisions that other people took in regulating community life. We shall refer to such a hadith as a regulatory hadith. The regulatory hadith is essentially the sunnah as we have defined above. By its very nature a regulatory hadith must have been widely known. 
[b] 2. Teaching Hadith [/b]
Those which record words and actions of the Prophet that were spoken/done in the presence of individuals or small groups and were aimed at their religious, spiritual and/or moral education. We shall refer to such a hadith as a teaching hadith. A teaching hadith might not have been widely known when the Prophet left this world. Note also that a regulatory hadith can be considered a teaching hadith but not necessarily vice versa. 
[b] 3. Circumstantial Hadith [/b]
Those sayings and actions of the Prophet that he spoke/did in the capacity of an individual living in a certain time, place, and culture, e.g., his riding a camel. We would refer to such a hadith as a circumstantial hadith.

Finally we will need to often refer to certain existing views about Hadith and it would be convenient to define them more precisely. In the main there are four views with various possible shades of opinion in each:
[b]View 1:[/b]
The Qur'an is the only source of Islamic guidance/law; the hadith has no revelatory value (this will be referred to as the Only-only position). 
[b]View 2 (my personal view is nearer to this view than other 3 views)[/b]
The Hadith is a secondary but revelatory source of Islamic guidance/law and the question of authenticity of ahadith will forever remain open although with research more and more probable results can be obtained. This is the view argued in this book. 
[b]view 3:[/b]
The Hadith is an independent source of Islamic guidance/law but the question of authenticity is open. 
[b]view 4:[/b]
The Hadith is an independent source of Islamic guidance/law and the question of authenticity was settled with high degree of reliability by the classical muhaddithun (this will be referred to as the traditionalist position). [/size=2]

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www.islamicperspectives.com/HadithProject.htm

Edited by: ibrahim on Monday, December 05, 2005 6:13 AM[/quote]

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