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This article includes long excerpts (in Arabic) from four primary sources along with English translation and commentary. The sources include Bukhari's Sahih, Muslim's preface to his Sahih, a treatise on the principles of tradition by Sayyid 'Ali al-Jurjani (d. 816 A.H.), and an exposition of hadith terminology by 'Abd al-Haq. -BS

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