Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

Notes on Contributors

pp viii-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

Introduction: What is Hadith Commentary?

pp 1-12

Part I - Formations and Developments in the Early and Middle Periods

pp 13-14

1 - Between Philology and Hadith Criticism: The Genre of Sharḥ Gharīb al-Ḥadīth

pp 15-49

2 - The Hermeneutics of al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā: The Interpretation of akhbār al-āḥād in Kitāb al-Amālī

pp 50-78

3 - ‘Blessed are the Strangers (ghurabāʾ)’: An Apocalyptic Hadith on the Virtues of Loneliness, Sadness and Exile

pp 79-111

4 - Sufi Contributions to Hadith Commentary

pp 112-131

5 - Ibn Rajab’s Commentary on al-Nawawī’s Forty Hadith: Innovation and Audience in the Jāmiʿ al-ʿulūm wa-l-ḥikam

pp 132-149

6 - The Words of the Imām beyond Philosophy and Tradition: Shīʿī Hadith Commentaries in the Ṣafavid Period

pp 150-184

Part II - Modern Recollections and Reimaginings

pp 185-186

7 - Contesting Ḥanafī Thought in a Twentieth-century Turkish Hadith Commentary

pp 187-206

8 - Debating Authority and Authenticity in Modern South Asian Hadith Commentaries: Muḥammad Zakariyyā Kāndhalawī’s Awjaz al-masālik

pp 207-237

9 - ʿAllāma Ṭabāṭabāʾī and Exegetical Hadiths in al-Mῑzān: A Contemporary Imāmī Commentary on Hadith?

pp 238-262

10 - Studying Hadith Commentaries in the Digital Age

pp 263-280

Afterword: More Comments, Further Questions

pp 281-293

Index

pp 294-308