Ali Abd al-Basit Mazid
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Ali Abd al-Basit Mazid is an Egyptian scholar of hadith and academic at Al-Azhar University, known for his methodological study Minhaj al-Muhaddithin fi al-Qarn al-Awwal al-Hijri wa Hatta Asrina al-Hadir.
Academic career
Mazid served as a professor of hadith in the Faculty of Usul al-Din at Al-Azhar University and formerly held the position of dean of the Faculty of Usul al-Din at its Beni Suef campus. In addition to teaching, he participated in academic dissertation committees, including evaluating postgraduate research at the Faculty of Dar al-Ulum at Cairo University.
Scholarly contributions
Mazid's scholarly work focuses on hadith methodology, the history of prophetic traditions, and the critical editing of classical texts. In his book Minhaj al-Muhaddithin fi al-Qarn al-Awwal al-Hijri wa Hatta Asrina al-Hadir ("The Methodology of Hadith Scholars from the First Century AH to the Present Era"), he examined the authority of the Sunna in Islamic law, traced the history and methods of hadith transmission and codification from the era of the Companions onward, and addressed historical and modern objections raised against the Sunna. In the field of manuscript editing, he collaborated with scholar Rifat Fawzi Abd al-Muttalib to produce a critical edition of Salah al-Din al-Ala'i's biographical work on transmitters, Kitab al-Mukhtalitin.
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Minhaj al-Muhaddithin fi al-Qarn al-Awwal al-Hijri wa Hatta Asrina al-Hadir (The Methodology of Hadith Scholars from the First Century AH to the Present Era) is a contemporary study on the history and methodologies of hadith transmission and compilation. It offers a chronological survey of the preservation, codification, and critical methods applied to the Prophetic Sunna across Islamic history, addressing safeguards established to protect traditions and responding to claims raised by historical and modern rejectors of hadith.