Hadith methodology · transmission provenance

Epistemic Isnad & Transmission Provenance Engine

علم الإسناد و التوثيق الشبكي

A source-led interactive study of how reports move through named transmitters, parallel teachers, and classical collections — with a modern graph model for examining provenance.

5 selected reportsSource-linked routesSimulation clearly labeled

Conceptual lens

A historical method in conversation with modern provenance

For roughly fourteen centuries, Muslim scholars documented who transmitted reports from whom, compared routes, and scrutinized narrator relationships. A contemporary DAG can make some of that relational structure easier to inspect; cryptographic commitments can illustrate how a dataset changes when its recorded links change.

Select a transmission study

Five reports · five source-specific route fixtures

Selection controls switch the text, cited isnad route, city-origin view, and hash fixture together.

Arabic matn

وَأَنَا تَارِكٌ فِيكُمْ ثَقَلَيْنِ أَوَّلُهُمَا كِتَابُ اللَّهِ ... وَأَهْلُ بَيْتِي أُذَكِّرُكُمُ اللَّهَ فِي أَهْلِ بَيْتِي

Urdu rendering

میں تم میں دو گراں قدر چیزیں چھوڑ رہا ہوں؛ پہلی اللہ کی کتاب ہے ... پھر فرمایا: میرے اہلِ بیت (a.s.) کے بارے میں تمہیں اللہ یاد دلاتا ہوں۔

English rendering

I am leaving among you two weighty things; the first is the Book of Allah ... Then he said: “My Ahl al-Bayt (a.s.)—I remind you of your duties to the members of my family.”

Source and interpretation note

The graph compares the Sahih Muslim 2408a route with one distinct Imami route in Al-Kafi 2:1:179. The displayed matn follows Muslim; Al-Kafi transmits through Imam Ali (a.s.) and preserves different wording. Routes and textual variants remain separate, including differences in how Ahl al-Bayt (a.s.) is described.

The displayed score and witness count are interface-demo values. They are not a published tawatur calculation, route census, or hadith grade.

Epistemic route model

Hadith al-Thaqalayn

Transmission flow · 17 named nodes · 16 recorded links

Tawatur signal · demo

98.7%

Witness paths · demo

Explicit audition links

Compiler endpoints

100%

Method and limits

Read the route with its source attached

Each graph follows one cited collection route and points back to its source. Node scores, witness counts, and the SHA-256 fixture are interface demonstrations only; none replace a source edition, a complete rijal study, or scholarly evaluation of a report.

Edge labels preserve the distinction between explicit hearing language and ʿanʿana in the cited route. A direct-hearing phrase is a textual feature, not by itself a verdict on the entire chain.

Primary source references

Hadith al-Thaqalayn

Sahih Muslim 2408a
Arabic chain, Khumm report, and English translation.
Collection reference
Al-Kafi 2:1:179, hadith 1
A distinct chain through Imam Ali (a.s.) and Sulaym ibn Qays, with Arabic matn and source commentary.
Collection reference