Encyclopedia Of Hadith Forgeries

The Lifting of Secrets Concerning Forged Re­ports  (الأسرار المرفوعة في الأخبار الموضوعة)   was written over four hundred   years   ago   by   a   respected   and   prolific   Meccan   savant   of   Afghan   origin. Mulla ‛Ali al-Qari (d.   1014/1605)   was thor­oughly   famil­iar   with the large body of critical lit­erature   on hadith forgery, which   he   re­fined   and re­or­dered alpha­beti­cally   into   625 entries. Al-Qari’s last work, it is the only catalogue of for­geries   with   both a transmission - based   and content - based critique, illustrating the author’s vast erudition as well as his lenient choices in hadith metho­dology and his classic Hanafi and Sufi views.

The   translator   has   added   his   own   study of the forgery and “famous hadith” genres, a bio-bibliography of the author, extensive footnotes and exhaustive indices. A total of 3,000 reports are docu­mented in this volume covering doctrinal and juridi­cal forgeries, Shiite for­geries, Sufi for­geries, racial forgeries, misogynistic for­geries, food forgeries, “Israelite” forgeries, medical forgeries,   sex   forgeries,   spurious   books,   spurious   grave-spots   and   more.   This   is   the   first and long overdue au­thentic refer­ence work on hadith forgeries in English.
Dr. Gibril Fouad Haddad holds scholarly licenses ( ijāza ) from 150 shaykhs   and   has authored dozens of books and hundreds of articles in Islamic hermeneutics, doctrine, hadith, biography and here­siology. He