Liqaat Multaqa Ahl al-Hadith bil-Ulama
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Liqaat Multaqa Ahl al-Hadith bil-Ulama (Interviews of the Multaqa Ahl al-Hadith Forum with Scholars) is an electronic compilation of written scholarly interviews conducted by the Islamic online forum Multaqa Ahl al-Hadith with contemporary Muslim scholars and specialists .
Background and Composition
The compilation originated from activities hosted on the website Multaqa Ahl al-Hadith, an online forum dedicated to Islamic disciplines with an emphasis on hadith and adherence to the methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah . According to Khalid ibn Umar al-Faqih al-Ghamidi, the platform operated for years under its original name, "Baljurashi"—named after the town in southwestern Saudi Arabia—before scholars recommended renaming it "Multaqa Ahl al-Hadith" to reflect its mission, eventually growing to over 20,000 participating members from Saudi Arabia, the Gulf, North Africa, Egypt, China, the United States, Canada, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, and elsewhere .
The forum pioneered holding structured written interviews with scholars on its platform. In each session, forum participants and visitors submitted questions, which the forum administrators collated and presented to the guest scholar, after which the written responses were published on the site and subsequently gathered into this collection .
Content and Structure
The book gathers comprehensive interview sessions with fifteen contemporary scholars and researchers across various fields of Islamic knowledge :
- Abd al-Karim al-Khudayr
- Abd al-Rahman al-Barrak
- Ali al-Sayyah
- Abd Allah al-Ghunayman
- Hasan al-Hifzi
- Zuhayr al-Shawish
- Ali ibn Muhammad al-Umran
- Abd Allah al-Sa'd
- Hamzah al-Malibari
- Muhammad Uzayr Shams
- Abd al-Aziz al-Tarifi
- Muhammad ibn al-Amin Bukhabza
- Musa'id al-Tayyar
- Sa'di al-Hashimi
- Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Jizani
The interviews address diverse Islamic topics, including hadith criticism and terminology, creed, Quranic commentary, jurisprudence, and biographies . A distinct series within the work was inaugurated under the heading "Introducing Books, Printing, and Manuscript Editing" (al-Ta'rif bil-Kutub wa-Tiba'atiha wa-ma Yata'allaqu bil-Tahqiq), which hosted prominent contemporary manuscript editors to provide guidance on text verification, critique modern printings of Islamic classical works, and offer methodological instruction for researchers .
Reception
The initiative and the forum behind it received commendations from several contemporary scholars:
- Abd al-Karim al-Khudayr described it as an excellent website hosting scholars and providing benefits rarely found elsewhere, noting that while he disagreed with some participant viewpoints, the platform contained substantial benefit .
- Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Jizani praised the scholarly caliber of the platform, remarking that he had not previously expected such academic engagement on the internet .
- Abu Khalid al-Sulami commended the founding of the platform as a pioneering specialized endeavor focused particularly on hadith sciences amidst the clutter of uncurated internet forums .
- Additional praise for the platform's academic utility was voiced by Bassam al-Ghannam, Nasir al-Umar, and Maher Yasin al-Fahl .
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