Sundays, September 7 – November 23, 2025

Boys and Girls Ages 14+
New and returning students are welcome.

Cost: $350

Students will explore the history and methodology behind Hadith preservation, the qualifications of those who narrate and compile Hadith, and the lives and contributions of major scholars such as Imam Bukhari, Imam Muslim, and more.

We will be studying Al-Manẓūmah al-Bayqūniyyah (المنظومة البيقونية), a poem composed by Imam Al-Bayquni and serves as a concise and accessible introduction to the science of hadith.

Students will gain the following skills:

• Ability to identify and differentiate between major types of hadith, including:

  • Ṣaḥīḥ (authentic)

  • Ḥasan (sound)

  • Ḍaʿīf (weak)

  • Mutawātir (mass-transmitted)

  • Āḥād (solitary)

  • Mursal, Munqaṭiʿ, Muʿḍal, Muʿallaq, etc.

• Acquire the foundational vocabulary of Muṣṭalaḥ al-Ḥadīth (hadith classification terminology), such as:

  • Sanad, Matn, Rijāl, Ittisāl, ʿAdālah, Dabṭ

  • Understand what makes a hadith maqbūl (accepted) or mardūd (rejected)

• Analyze a hadith’s isnād (chain of narration) to determine its classification:

  • Is it musnad, mursal, muʿḍal, or munqaṭiʿ?

  • Is the isnād connected or interrupted?

• Gain insight into how classical scholars:

  • Investigated narrators’ reliability (ʿilm al-rijāl)

  • Preserved the integrity of the Prophet’s sayings and actions

  • Differentiated between authentic traditions and fabrications.