Simplifying Hadith terminology

Author's name: Mahmoud Al-Tahhan

On the Origins of Terminology Science and its Most Famous Works: A Historical Overview of the Origins of Terminology Science and the Stages Through Which the Most Famous Works in Terminology Science Passed. Preliminary Definitions. Chapter One: The Report. Section One: Classification of the Report According to its Reaching Us. Subsection One: The Mutawatir Report. Subsection Two: The Ahad Report. Chapter Two: Classification of the Ahad Report. Subsection One: Classification of the Ahad Report According to the Number of its Chains of Transmission. Requirement One: The Mashhur. Requirement Two: The Aziz. Requirement Three: The Gharib. Subsection Two: Classification of the Ahad Report According to its Strength and Weakness. Requirement One: The Maqbul. Requirement Two: The Mardud. Chapter Three: The Ahad Report Shared Between the Maqbul and Mardud. Subsection One: Classification of the Report According to the One to Whom the Qudsi Hadith is Attributed: The Marfu', The Mawquf, The Maqtu'. Subsection Two: Other Types Shared Between the Maqbul and Mardud: The Musnad, The Muttasil, Additions of Reliable Narrators, The I'tibar, The Mutaabi', and The Shahid. Chapter Two: The Characteristics of Those Whose Narrations are Accepted and Related Matters of Criticism and Justification. Subsection One: On the Narrator and the Conditions of Acceptance. Subsection Two: A General Overview of the Books of Criticism and Justification. Subsection Three: The Levels of Criticism and Justification. Chapter Three: Narration, its Etiquette, and How to Establish it. First: How to Verify Narration and Methods of Transmitting It. Section One: How to Hear and Transmit Hadith and the Method of Verifying It. Section Two: Methods of Transmission and Forms of Performance. Section Three: Writing, Verifying, and Classifying Hadith. Section Four: The Characteristics of Narrating Hadith. Chapter Two: Etiquette of Narration. Section One: Etiquette of the Hadith Narrator. Section Two: Etiquette of the Hadith Student. Chapter Four: The Chain of Transmission and Related Matters. Chapter One: Subtleties of the Chain of Transmission. Section One: High and Low Chains of Transmission. Section Two: The Chain of Transmission. Section Three: Narration of Elders from Juniors. Section Four: Narration of Fathers from Sons. Section Five: Narration of Sons from Fathers. Section Six: The Embellished and Narration of Peers. Section Seven: The Preceding and the Following. Chapter Two: Knowledge of the Narrators. Section One: Knowledge of the Companions. Section Two: Knowledge of the Followers. Section Three: Knowledge of Brothers and Sisters. Section Four: Knowledge of Agreed and Disagreement. Section Five: Knowledge of Similar and Dissimilar Narrations. Section Six: Knowledge of Ambiguous Narrations. Section Seven: Knowledge of Neglected Narrations. Section Eight: Knowledge of Ambiguous Narrations. Section Nine: Knowledge of Unique Narrations. Section Ten: Knowledge of Those Mentioned by Name or Eleventh Topic: Knowledge of Vocabulary from Names, Nicknames, and Titles; Twelfth Topic: Knowledge of the Names of Those Known by Their Nicknames; Thirteenth Topic: Knowledge of Titles; Fourteenth Topic: Knowledge of Those Attributed to Other Than Their Fathers; Fifteenth Topic: Knowledge of Lineages That Contrary to Their Apparent Meaning; Sixteenth Topic: Knowledge of the Dates of Narrators; Seventeenth Topic: Knowledge of Those Among the Reliable Narrators Whose Narrations Became Mixed; Eighteenth Topic: Knowledge of the Classes of Scholars and Narrators; Nineteenth Topic: Knowledge of the Freed Slaves Among the Narrators and Scholars; Twenty Topic: Knowledge of the Reliable and Weak Narrators; Twenty-First Topic: Knowledge of the Homelands and Countries of the Narrators