Takhaṣṣuṣ Year One- 2026

What Will You Learn?

• The full three-year programme covers:
• Virtues and etiquette of ḥadīth scholars
• Methodology and practice of early authors
• Nomenclature (muṣṭalaḥ)
• Principles of ḥadīth
• History of transmission and compilation
• Sunnah as legal and theological authority
• Building connection with the Prophet ﷺ
• Memorisation of selected narrations
• Contemporary challenges to ḥadīth
• Engagement with Orientalist critiques
• Practical reading of narrations on faḍāʾil, zuhd, and riqāq
• Analytical reading of narrations on aḥkām
• Ḥanafī uṣūl and contribution to ḥadīth
• Takhrīj and sourcing
• Researching narrators
• Jarḥ wa taʿdīl
• ʿIlal
• Literature on fabrications
• Methodologies of the muḥaddithīn