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| Preface | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The traditional theological and legal approaches to Sunni Islam | |
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| Sunni hadith Literature: its nature and utility for this project | |
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| Methodology | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Construction of Conceptual and Historical Frameworks for Inquiry | |
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| Towards an initial framework: The contributions of Ibn al-Salah and al-Dhahabi | |
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| The conceptual framework: Ibn al-Salah and his articulation of the hadith disciplines | |
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| Towards a historical framework: The identification of al-Dhahabi's favorite hadith scholars | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| A Historical Narrative: Al-Dhahabi's Vision of the First Seven Centuries of Sunni hadith Scholarship | |
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| Origins of hadith (c. 1-140/622-757) | |
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| Early compilations and criticism (c. 140-200/757-815) | |
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| The age of the "six books" (c. 200-300/815-912) | |
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| The triumph of Baghdad and Iran (c. 300-400/912-1009) | |
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| The age of specialization (c. 400-480/1009-1087) | |
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| Transition and the loss of the East (c. 480-600/1087-1203) | |
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| The triumph of Syria (c. 600-720/1203-1320) | |
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| Identification and Analysis of the Master Sunni hadith Critics | |
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| Sources | |
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| Analysis: Three periods and seven generations of Sunni hadith critics | |
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| The origins of Sunni hadith criticism: An examination of the first two generations of primary critics | |
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| What about al-Shafii? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Generation of Ibn Sad, Ibn Main, and Ibn Hanbal: A Prosopographical Study | |
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| A prosopographical panorama of the first half of the third/ninth century | |
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| The mihna and its impact upon Sunni hadith scholarship | |
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| Biographical sketches of Ibn Sad, Ibn Main, and Ibn Hanbal and their primary transmitter-pupils | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Three Principles of Hadith-Scholar Sunni Islam: Sahaba, Hadith-Transmitter Criticism, and History | |
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| The sahaba in Classical Muslim Theory and Practice | |
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| The problem: The intra-sahaba conflicts of 11-40/632-661 | |
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| Two minority solutions: The Imami Shia and Zaydiyya/Bagdhadi Mutazila | |
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| Sunni solutions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| A Comparative Study of the Methods of hadith-transmitter Criticism of Ibn Sad, Ibn Main, and | |
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| Ibn Hanbal | |
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| Ibn Sad: Grades | |
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| Ibn Main: Grades in al-Duri's Tarikh | |
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| Ibn Hanbal: Grades in the Ilal of Abdullah b. Ahmad | |
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| Reliable and unreliable transmitters in the eyes of Ibn Sad, Ibn Main, and Ibn Hanbal: A comparative study | |
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| Sectarian labels: Do they matter? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Sunni Historical Vision of the First Two Centuries of hadith Transmission | |
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| Before hadith: Sahaba who died 11-40/632-660 | |
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| Foundations: Sahaba and senior tabiun who died 40-80/660-699 and their pupils who lived prior to 120/738 | |
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| The first compilers: The generation who died 120-150/738-767 | |
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| The demise of Medina and the rise of Iraq: The generation who died 150-180/767-796 | |
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| The refinement of hadith compilation and criticism: The generation who died 180-220/796-835 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Other Critics | |
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| Ibn Sad's Most Reliable Transmitters | |
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| Ibn Main's Liars and Other Disgraceful Transmitters | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Index of Proper Names | |
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| General Index | |