Biographical Evaluation

Biographical Evaluation Of Hadith Narrators Biographical evaluation (عِلْمُ الرِّجال‎, Ilm al-Rijāl), literally meaning ‘Knowledge of Men’ but more commonly understood as the Science of Narration, refers to a discipline of Islamic religious studies within hadith terminology in which the narrators of hadith are evaluated. Its goal is to distinguish authentic and reliable hadiths from...