الملخّص
A working summary in the sciences of ḥadīth — terminology, gradations of soundness, and the foundational distinctions of the muṣṭalaḥ tradition, with clarification of Ḥanafī-school usage.
Al-Mulakhkhaṣ — The Summary — is a working primer in muṣṭalaḥ al-ḥadīth (the science of ḥadīth terminology) composed by Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Balyāwī of Jāmiʿat Maẓāhir ʿUlūm, Sahāranpūr, with particular attention to where the Ḥanafī jurists diverge from the muḥaddithūn in their classification of aḥādīth. The text reads as a sequenced progression: the authority of ḥadīth and the development of its sciences first, then the categories of aḥādīth by number of narrators, by acceptance and rejection, by soundness gradation, and by the structural features of the sanad — every term defined, every distinction worked through.
The arrangement on these pages follows the original sequence. Each entry is a single muṣṭalaḥ category or a single distinction; the entries are short by design, intended to be read in order rather than separately consulted as a dictionary. Together they form the foundation on which longer works such as Ibn Ḥajar's Nukhbat al-Fikr and his own commentary Nuzhat al-Naẓar — as well as the rijāl literature of Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb and Tahdhīb al-Kamāl — assume the reader has already mapped.
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