❞ كتاب The Compilation of Hadeeth ❝ ⏤ عبد الغفار حسن

ntroduction
5
Auth
or’s Biography
6
Text of the Book
9
The First Period
1
0
Famous Memorizers
of Hadeeth
1
0
The Sahaabah (
Companions
)
1
0
The Taabi’een (
Successors
)
1
1
The Written Works of the First Period
1
2
The Second Period
1
5
Compilers of Hadeeth
1
5
T
he Written Works of the Second Period
1
6
Other Works of the Second Period
1
6
Other Books Compiled During this Time
1
6
The Third Period
17
Specificity of this Period
17
Uloom al
-
Hadeeth (The Sciences of Hadeeth)
1
7
The Compilers of Hadeeth in
the Third Period
2
1
Tabaqaat of Books of Hadeeth
2
2
The Fourth Period
2
3

ndeed  all  praise  is  for  Allaah,  we  praise  Him  and  we  seek  His  aid  and  we  seek  His  
forgiveness.  And  we  seek  refuge  with  Allaah  from  the  evil  of  our  souls  and  fr
om our
wicked  deeds.  Whomsoever  Allaah  guides,  none  can  misguide,  and  whomsoever  
Allaah misguides, none can guide.
We further bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped except Allaah alone,
without  partner  or  associate,  and  we  bear  witness  that
  Muhammad  (sal
-
Allaahu
‘alayhe wa sallam) is His slave and Messenger.
This  book  is  a  translation  of  the  introduction  to  the  Urdu  booklet
“Intikhaab
-
e
-
Hadeeth”
 (
The   Compilation   of   Hadeeth
)   of
Shaykh   Abdul   Ghaffar   Hassan
Rehmaanee.
In  this  treatise  
Shaykh
Abdul  Ghaffar  Hassan
 deals with the topic of the compilation
of   hadeeth.
The  Shaykh  explains
various  issues  related  to  the  preservation  and
compilation   of   hadeeth
,
   includ
ing
   the   method   of   preservation,   the   periods   of
compilation of hadeeth and the first bo
oks of hadeeth.
The  Shaykh  goes  onto  explain  the  different  sciences  of  hadeeth  that  were  developed  
to  preserve  and  explain  the  ahaadeeth  and  other  books  written  on  variou
s  subjects  
over the centuries.
May Allaah reward the Shaykh for
t
his
booklet
expla
i
n
in
g the compilation of hadeeth.
We  ask  Allaah  to  accept  this  work  as  a  sincere  act  and  that  He  place  it  in  our  scale  of  
good  deeds  on  the  Day  of  Judgement.  And  we  ask  that  He  benefit  all  the  Muslims  
generally with it.
Ameen

is Birth:
His  name  is  Abdul  Ghaffaar  
Hasan
 the son of
Shaykh
  Haafidh  Abdus
Sattaar  Hasan,  
born in 133
1H corresponding to 1913CE in Amrpoor; a district of Muzaffarnagar.
His Family:
He was from a family who were firm upon on the Qur
’
aan and Sunnah and his father,
grandfather  and  other  family  members  were  major  scholars  of  their  time
.
S
ome of
them  were  st
udents  of  the  great  hadeeth  teacher  Shaykh  ul
-
Qul
f
il
-
Qul  Mian  Nazeer  
Muhaddith Dehlawee.
His Education:
The  Shaykh  completed  Dars  Nizaamee  from  Daar  ul
-
Hadeeth  Rehmaania  in  Delhi  in  
1933.  He  then  went  to  the  universit
ies
  of  Lucknow  and  
Punjab
  and
  graduat
ed
  from  
there in 1935 and 1940 respectively.
He  taught  in  various  institutions  during  his  life.  He  taught  hadeeth,  
A
rabic  and  its  
associated sciences in Madrassah Rehmaania for 7 years. He then taught in Madrassah
Ka
w
thar   al
-
Uloom   and   other   institutions   a
round   Pakistan;   in   Lahore
,   Si
alkot,
Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Sahiwal and Karachi up until 1964.
In  1964  he  was  requested  to  teach  in  Jaami  Islaamiyyah  Madeenah  Munawwarah
;
  he  
taught  there  for  16  years.  He  delivered  lectures  on  hadeeth,  uloom  al
-
hadeeth and
 on
Isla
a
mic  beliefs.
D
uring  this  time  he  also  delivered  lectures  in  the  faculties  of
Sharee
’
ah, Usool
-
ud
-
D
een and Kuliyatul
-
Hadeeth.
Then  between  1981  and  1985  he  taught  the  monumental  work,  Saheeh  al
-
Bukhaaree
in the faculty of Islaamic Education in add
ition to other sciences.
His Efforts in Da'wah:
Post  1985  he  worked  with  Daar  ul
-
Iftaa  Saudia  and  in  this  regard  he  travelled  to  
various  countries  to  establish  the  da’wah
.
S
ome  of  the  countries  he  travelled  to  
include:
•
Uganda,
•
Kenya,
•
England,
•
Bangladesh
and
•
India.
During
his  stay  in  Kenya,  he  established  an  institution  by  the  name  of  Saaniwiyyah  
where he started to teach the various sciences of Islaam. On his return to
Saudi
 Arabia
he was sent to
London,
England  to  help  with  the  
d
a’wah efforts there.
H
e
established
another institution in London by the name of
The Qur’aan and Sunnah Society.
His Teachers:
H
is teachers were:
The Compilation of Hadeeth
7
http://www.theclearpath.com
•
Shaykh ul
-
Hadeeth
Shaykh
 Ahmadullaah
•
Shaykh ul
-
Hadeeth Ubaidullaah Mubaarakpooree (
w
a Rehmaanee)
•
Shaykh
 Nazeer Ahmad A
’
zamee
•
Shaykh
ul
-
Hadeeth
Shaykh
 Muhammad Soortee (Ustaadh Jaamia Rehmaania)
•
And  for  a  short  while  he  studied  with  the  great  hadeeth  scholar  Abdur
Rahmaan Mubaarakpooree
1
His Students:
Some of h
is students are:
•
Shaykh
 Abdul Ghafoor Multaanee (Maktab ad
-
Dawah as
-
Saudi
a)
•
Shaykh Rabee
 Ibn
Haadee al
-
Madkhalee
•
Shaykh Abu Usaamah
 Ibn
Eed al
-
Hilaalee
•
‘Allaamah Ihsaan Ilaahee Dhaheer
•
Shaykh
  Abdur
-
Rahmaan Azhar Madanee, Lahore.
•
Shaykh
 Abdulla
a
h, Jaamia Rasheediyyah.
•
Shaykh
 Mas
’
ood Alam, Graduate Madeenah University.
•
Shaykh
 Abd
ul Hakeem, Jaami Masjid Ahlul
-
Hadeeth Rawalpindi.
•
Shaykh
 Muhammad Basheer Siyaalkotee, Rector Daar ul
-
Ilm Islamabad.
•
Shaykh
 Muhammad
Abdullaah
, Daar al
-
Quraan Faisalabad.
•
Shaykh
    Haafidh    Ahmadullaah,
Shaykh
    ul
-
Hadeeth    Jamia    Salafiyyah.
Fai
salabad.
•
His  three
  sons
,
  all  graduates  of  Madeenah  University,  Suhaib,  Suhail  and  
Raaghib  Hasan.
And
  many  more...
His Works:
The  Shaykh  is  an  excellent  writer  and  his  mastery  over  the  language  is  evident  from  
his  works.  During  his  life  the  Shaykh  authored  a  number  of  books  
but  more  so  he  
wrote a great number of articles for the various Ahlul
-
Hadeeth magazines in India and
Pakistan.
  His  answers  to  various  issues
,
  rang
ing
  from  rebuttals,  refutations  and
clarifications
,
  would  be  filled  with  knowledge  and  firm  adherence  to  the  w
ay  of  the  
Salaf.
He  has  authored  many  treatises  in  refutation  of  the  
Qaadiyaanee’s;
  he  also  wrote  a  
book called
Qasas al
-
Qur
’
aan
 for the
Saudi
 government which was sent to Africa.
Some of his other well known works include:
•
A Selection of Hadeeth
2
•
The
Status of Women In Islaam
•
The Reality of Du’aa
•
Exaggeration in the Religion
•
The Greatness of Hadeeth

 In this treatise Shaikh Abdul Gaffar Hassan deals with the topic of the Compilation of the Hadeeth. The Shaikh Explains varies issues related to the preservation and compilation of hadeeth, including the method of preservation, the periods of compilation of hadeeth and the first book of hadeeth.