This dissertation examines Ibn Abi Hatim's Taqdimat al-maʿrifa li-Kitab al-Jarh wa-'l-taʿdil and the intellectual milieu in which it was written. The Taqdima is Ibn Abi Hatim's defense of hadith criticism. The impetus for the work's composition was provided by the conflict betwe…
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