Abd al-Hakim Salih
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Abd al-Hakim Salih (in full Abd al-Hakim Salih al-Yazidi al-Yafi‘i) is a contemporary scholar and researcher in hadith studies based in Doha, Qatar . He is known for his critical supplements and revisions to classical reference works on narrator evaluation (‘ilm al-rijāl) and hidden defects in transmission (‘ilal al-ḥadīth) .
Scholarly Focus and Methodology
Salih's scholarship centers on verifying narrator reliability, examining continuity of transmission, and identifying disconnected chains (marāsīl) . When assessing claims of direct hearing between transmitters, his method relies on corroborating explicit declarations of audition (taṣrīḥ bi-al-samā‘), confirming freedom from deceitful concealment (tadlīs), and ensuring chronological contemporaneity through birth and death dates as well as generational rankings (ṭabaqāt) . He also emphasizes that narrators of severely compromised status, such as those abandoned (matrūk) or accused of fabrication, cannot serve as valid points of reference in corroboration .
In his treatise al-Takmīl ‘alā Tuḥfat al-Taḥṣīl, Salih conducted a systematic review of 1,386 biographical entries in the classical work on mursal narrators by Abu Zur'ah al-Iraqi, adding critical opinions and documentation of chains that had been omitted . In Taqrīb Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb, completed in Doha in 1444 AH, he re-evaluated the biographical conclusions of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani against classical narrator authorities . He likewise produced al-Taysīr wa-al-Tabṣīr limā Fāta al-Bukhārī fī al-‘Ilal al-Kabīr, providing critical notes and additions to hadith evaluations attributed to al-Bukhari in the transmissions collected by al-Tirmidhi .
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List of Works
A contemporary biographical and critical hadith work providing a critical review and supplement to Abu Zur'ah al-Iraqi’s classical treatise on disconnected transmissions and mursal narrators, Tuhfat al-Tahsil fi Dhikr Ruwat al-Marasil.
A contemporary legal treatise examining the requirement of having witnesses for divorce (talaq) and spousal reconciliation (raj'ah) in Islamic law.
A contemporary hadith biographical evaluation work, written as a critical reassessment and commentary on Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's biographical dictionary Taqrib al-Tahdhib.
A contemporary study in hadith criticism and narrator evaluation (ilm al-rijal), offering critical scrutiny, additions, and supplementary commentary on the hadith evaluations attributed to Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari in Abu Isa al-Tirmidhi's al-Ilal al-Kabir.