In the hadith studies of Islam

Islam

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ic theology

Theology

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, Isra'iliyat (اسرائیلیات "of the Israelites") is the body of hadith

Hadith

The term Hadīth is used to denote a saying or an act or tacit approval or criticism ascribed either validly or invalidly to the Islamic prophet Muhammad....

 originating from Judeo-Christian

Judeo-Christian

Judeo-Christian is a term used in the United States since the 1940s to refer to standards of ethics said to be held in common by Judaism and Christianity, for example the Ten Commandments...

 traditions, rather than from other well-accepted sources that quote the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Muhammad

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. The Isra'iliyat are mostly non-biblical explanatory stories and traditions (in Hebrew: midrash

Midrash

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im) giving extra information or interpretation about events or individuals recorded in the Hebrew scriptures.

Muslims classify such hadith in three categories :

• Those considered to be true because the revelation to Muhammad confirms them.
• Those considered to be false, because the revelation to Muhammad rejects them.
• Those not known to be either true or false.

Sunni view

Mufti Muhammad Shafi

Mufti Muhammad Shafi

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says of Isra'iliyat:

Judaica or Isra'iliyyat are narratives which have reached us through Jews and Christians. It may be noted that the early commentators used to write down all sorts of narrations which reached them from an identified source. Many of these narrations were straight from Judaica.

External links

• Terry Newman, The Isra’iliyyat Literature, November 2003.