Al-Dreis, Khalid bin Mansur. “Textual Criticism and its Relation to Evaluating Hadith Narrators in the Thought of Scholars of Jarḥ wa al-Taʿdīl (Impugnment and Validation),” Year 10, Issue 39 (Winter 1426 AH/ 2005 CE), Pp. 103-146.

Abstract

Khalid al-Dreis’s study highlights the efforts of scholars of jarḥ wa al-taʿdīl (impugnment and validation) in textual criticism, considering this to be one of their most important discourses in critiquing and evaluating narrators. The study also aims to shed light on a group of texts not treated in previous studies, exposing ijtihad (intellectual reasoning) variations in dealing with textual criticism as utilized by scholars of jarḥ wa al-taʿdīl, and explaining the factors necessitating textual criticism and its implications on evaluating hadith narrators. The study also addresses the necessitating factors for textual criticism, the implications of such factors on evaluating narrators, the limitations on textual criticism, and the justifications for these limitations.