ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HADITH FORGERIES

The Lifting of Secrets Concerning Forged Reports was written over four hundred years ago by a respected and prolific Meccan savant of Afghan origin Mulla ‛Ali alQari d 10141605 was thoroughly familiar with the large body of critical literature on hadith forgery which he refined and reordered alphabetically into 625 entries AlQaris last work it is the only catalogue of forgeries with both a transmissionbased and contentbased critique illustrating the authors vast erudition as well as his lenient choices in hadith methodology and his classic Hanafi and Sufi views The translator has added his own study of the forgery and famous hadith genres the life and works of the author extensive footnotes and exhaustive indices A total of 3000 reports are documented in this volume covering doctrinal and juridical forgeries Shia forgeries Sufi forgeries racial forgeries misogynistic forgeries food forgeries Israelite forgeries medical forgeries sex forgeries spurious books spurious gravespots and more This is the first and long overdue authentic reference work on hadith forgeries in English 1 HadithCriticism interpretation etcEarly works to 1800 2 HadithForgeries I Haddad Gibril Fouad 1960 II Title III Title Qari The Lifting of Secrets Concerning Forged Reports IV Title Qari The Major Book of Forgeries V Title Qari alMawduat alkubra English