Shakir Dhib Fayyad
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Shakir Dhib Fayyad is a contemporary scholar of hadith and Islamic studies, known for his critical edition of Ibn Zanjawayh's classical legal-financial treatise Kitab al-Amwal (The Book of Revenue) and his critical studies on hadith extraction methodology .
Education and Academic Career
Fayyad pursued his higher academic studies at Umm al-Qura University in Mecca, where he earned his doctorate by preparing a scholarly study and critical edition of Kitab al-Amwal by the third-century hadith scholar Humayd ibn Makhlad ibn Zanjawayh . His edition was subsequently published in 1406 AH (1986 CE) in Riyadh by the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies .
Scholarly Contributions
Fayyad has contributed to the methodology of hadith indexing and extraction (takhrij), writing Usul al-Takhrij wa-Turuq Takhrij al-Hadith (The Principles and Methods of Hadith Extraction) .
In 1412 AH (1992 CE), he published a critical study titled Bayan Akhta al-Mu'jam al-Mufahras li-Alfaz al-Hadith al-Nabawi (Clarification of the Errors in the Concordance of the Words of Prophetic Hadith) in the journal of King Saud University . In this treatise, Fayyad evaluated the multi-volume orientalist concordance al-Mu'jam al-Mufahras, identifying and classifying its shortcomings into eight distinct categories: omissions of root words and unsystematic dropping of terms, complete omission of certain hadiths, inclusion of wording not found in the Prophetic traditions, difficulty in utilizing its cross-references, linguistic errors, conflation of distinct passages, separation of similar passages, and citations of passages that do not correspond to the required texts .
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Bayan Akhta al-Mu'jam al-Mufahras li-Alfaz al-Hadith al-Nabawi (Clarification of the Errors of the Concordance of the Words of Prophetic Hadith) is a critical scholarly treatise published in 1412 AH (1992 CE). The study examines and categorizes the methodological, lexical, and textual shortcomings found in the multi-volume hadith concordance al-Mu'jam al-Mufahras li-Alfaz al-Hadith al-Nabawi (Concordance and Indices of Muslim Tradition).