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Isnād
(41 words)
(a.) i. e. the chain of traditionists. See ḥadīt̲h̲, ii. 190b and 190b
sqq. (Sections ii. and iii.) and cf. on the connection with Jewish tradition, J. Horovitz,
Alter und Ursprung des Isnād, in
Der Islam, viii. (1917), 39—47.
Isnād
(2,101 words)
The
isnād (pl.
asānīd; also
sanad, pl.
asnād) is the chain of authorities prefixed to reports or sayings, transmitted orally or in writing, in Islamic historiography and the Islamic sciences, including
ḥadīth, Prophetic biography, exegesis, and jurisprudence. It is a device that grants varying levels of authority to these reports by demonstrating their provenance from earlier authorities or eyewitnesses. In the case of
ḥadīth traditions,
isnād…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
ʾIsnād
(2,241 words)
The term
ʾisnād and words derived from it indicate in Arabic grammar the connection between a noun and its predicate, or the act of assigning a predicate to a subject (Levin 1981:157). The central point in the analysis of the sentence in Arabic grammar is the distinction between nominal (
ʾismiyya) and verbal (
fiʿliyya) sentences, each with their own constituents. The nominal sentence is built on a topic/comment structure, with the topic (
…
Date:
2018-04-01
Isnād
(106 words)
, chaîne d’autorités, partie essentielle de la transmission d’une tradition. Dans les premiers temps, la nécessité ne s’en fit pas sentir, mais au fur et à mesure que passait le premier siècle de l’Islam, on éprouva de plus en plus le besoin d’indiquer l’a…
Source:
Encyclopédie de l’Islam
Aʿlā
(24 words)
(a.) = higher, highest, also used asa technical term [see isnād ].
Al-Aʿlā is one of the titles of the 87th. Sūra.
