Rawiya bint Abd Allah ibn Ali Jaber
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Rawiya bint Abd Allah ibn Ali Jaber is a contemporary Saudi scholar of hadith studies, known for her analytical research on classical hadith terminology (mustalah al-hadith).
Education and academic work
Rawiya bint Abd Allah Ali Jaber completed her doctoral degree in Sharia and Islamic Studies, specializing in the Quran and Sunnah, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in Dhu al-Hijjah 1439 AH (August 2018 CE). Her doctoral dissertation was written under the academic supervision of Professor Fatin bint Hasan Halwani and subsequently published as al-Mustalahat al-Hadithiya Bayn al-Ittifaq wa al-Iftiraq ("Hadith Terms Between Agreement and Divergence: An Objective Analytical Study").
In her research, she employed an analytical and inductive approach to examine twelve foundational classifications of hadith: sahih (sound), hasan (good), da‘if (weak), shadhdh (anomalous), munkar (denounced), mu‘allal (defective), afrad (singular narrations), ziyadat al-thiqah (additions by reliable narrators), mudtarib (confounded), mudraj (interpolated), maqlub (inverted), and mawdu‘ (fabricated). Her work traces the linguistic and technical definitions of these terms in chronological sequence across classical scholarly authorities, evaluating their illustrative examples and analyzing points of conceptual consensus, divergence, and terminological overlap.
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Completed in 1439 AH (2018 CE), this contemporary study examines the science of hadith terminology (mustalah al-hadith). The work critically analyzes twelve central hadith categories, exploring the points of consensus and divergence across classical definitions as well as the degree of conceptual overlap among them.