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Al-Wasīṭ fī Sharḥ Muqaddimat al-Shaykh fī Muṣṭalaḥ al-Ḥadīth (الوسيط في شرح مقدمة الشيخ في مصطلح الحديث)

This work is a detailed explanatory commentary (sharḥ) on a foundational primer in the science of hadith terminology (ʿIlm Muṣṭalaḥ al-Ḥadīth), authored by the celebrated Indian hadith scholar and muḥaddith, Imam ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī.

This edition presents a full scholarly verification (taḥqīq) of the primer’s original text, carried out by Mawlana Saʿīd Aḥmad, who has:

• Verified and critically edited the text of the Muqaddimah
• Clarified its phrases and sentence structures for the reader
• Provided a scholarly study — both foundational (taʾṣīlī) and applied (taṭbīqī) — of the technical terms and principles it contains, grounded in the texts and usage of the leading hadith imams

Ideal for: students and teachers of hadith sciences, seminary (madrasah) curricula, and anyone seeking a rigorous, classically-rooted introduction to the terminology and methodology used by the scholars of hadith.