Raid bin Abi Ulfah
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Raid bin Abi Ulfah (also known as Raid bin Sabri bin Abi Ulfah) is a contemporary Islamic scholar and researcher known for his compendiums on Hadith literature and Islamic practices, notably his encyclopedic dictionary Mu'jam al-Bida (Dictionary of Innovations) .
Scholarly Contributions
Bearing the kunya Abu Hudhayfah, Raid bin Sabri bin Abi Ulfah focused his scholarship primarily on Hadith studies, bibliographical indexing, and the classification of religious deviations and customary practices across Islamic literature . In collaboration with Mashhur bin Hasan Al Salman, he compiled Mu'jam al-Musannafat al-Waridah fi Fath al-Bari, a specialized biographical and bibliographical lexicon cataloging the hundreds of source texts and authorities cited in Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's monumental commentary Fath al-Bari, published in Riyadh in 1412 AH (1991 CE) .
His independent research includes Mu'jam al-Bida, an alphabetical reference work designed to assemble practices and concepts characterized as religious innovations (bid'ah) in classic and modern scholarly writings . In the field of Hadith methodology and text editing, he prepared and edited the classical critical treatise Thamarat al-Nazar fi 'Ilm al-Athar by Muhammad bin Isma'il al-San'ani, which was published in Riyadh in 1417 AH (1996 CE) .
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Mu'jam al-Bida' (Dictionary of Innovations) is an encyclopedic reference work cataloging religious innovations and unwarranted practices identified across Islamic scholarly literature. Its full descriptive subtitle indicates that it contains everything encountered by the compiler that has been characterized as an innovation (bidȣah).