Hadith Literature: Its Origins, Development & Special Features children books an 18th-century Moroccan saint in

an 18th-century Moroccan saint in the Darqawi Sufi lineage

a respected British scholar

may Allah bless him and grant him peace

Written more than eight hundred years ago and now translated into English

have long been a symbol of mystery and fascination to outsiders

Hadith Literature: Its Origins, Development & Special Features children books an 18th-century Moroccan saint inHadith Literature Its Origins, Development & Special Features MUHAMMAD ZUBAYR SIDDIQI The hadith, the sayings attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, form a sacred literature which for the Muslims ranks second in importance only to the Quran itself. As a source of law, ethics and doctrine, the vast corpus of hadith continue to exercise decisive influence. Islamic scholarship has hence devoted immense efforts to gathering and classifying the hadith, and