''A Great Collection of Fabricated Traditions'', ( ar-at, الموضوعات الكبرى, Al-Mawḍū‘āt al-Kubrā), is a collection of fabricated

hadith Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approva ...

collected by Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi (d.1201) for criticism.

Description

The book consists of narrations, presented as

, declared fabricated ('' mawḍūʻ'') by the author and then arranged by subject. ''Al-Mawdu'at'' has been described by

Al-Nawawi Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī ( ar, أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي;‎ (631A.H-676A.H) (October 1230–21 December 1277), popularly known as al-Nawawī or Imam Nawawī, was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and ...

as including many narrations, occupying approximately two volumes.''Tadrib Al-Rawi'' by Al-Suyuti (d.1505), vol. 1, pgs. 471-2, ''Dar Al-Asimah'' edition. It consists of some 1847 narrations according to the numbering provided in the latest edition and is currently published in four volumes with ample footnotes providing additional information.

Criticism

(d.1277) criticized the book as containing many

which cannot properly be declared ''mawḍūʻ''. Some of them are, according to Al-Suyuti, ''ḍa‘īf'', ''ḥasan'' or even ''ṣaḥīḥ''. Ahmad ibn Ali Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (d.1449) contends, however, that the majority of the narrations in this book are, in fact, fabricated and that those narrations criticized as not actually being fabricated are very few in comparison.

References

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