Bassam al-Atawi
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Bassam al-Atawi is a contemporary scholar and academic specializing in hadith studies and textual criticism.
Academic Career and Scholarship
His full name is Bassam ibn Abd Allah ibn Salih al-Ghanim al-Atawi. He served as the head of the Department of Islamic Studies at the Teachers College in Dammam.
Al-Atawi's academic research focuses on the methodology of early hadith masters in evaluating textual and transmission defects ('ilal). In al-Ahadith allati A'alla al-Imam al-Bukhari Mutunaha bi al-Tanaqud ("The Hadiths Whose Texts Imam al-Bukhari Declared Defective Due to Contradiction"), he analyzed the critical principles applied by al-Bukhari in identifying contradictions within narrations; the study was published in the scholarly journal Majallat al-Hikmah in Muharram 1428 AH (2007 CE) and issued by Maktabat al-Rushd in Riyadh. He also authored al-Ahadith allati rawaha al-Imam Ibn Khuzaymah fi Sahihihi wa-tawaqqafa fi tashihaha, a study examining narrations in the Sahih of Ibn Khuzaymah where the author withheld judgment on their authenticity.
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This academic study in hadith criticism investigates the methodology of al-Bukhari in evaluating the texts (matn) of hadiths and non-prophetic reports (athar). It focuses specifically on instances where narrations were declared defective due to evident contradictions, demonstrating the practice and rigor of textual criticism among early hadith scholars.