الْبَابُ الْأَوَّلُ: فِي التَّعْرِيفِ الْعَامِّ بِمُصْطَلَحِ الْحَدِيثِ · Book One: The General Definition of Hadith Terminology

الْفَصْلُ الْأَوَّلُ: تَمْهِيدٌ فِي مَنْشَإِ مُصْطَلَحِ الْحَدِيثِ · Chapter One: How the Terminology Arose

عِلْمُ الْحَدِيثِ · The Science of Hadith

The author's chosen wording: a science comprising the sayings, acts, approvals and attributes of the Prophet ﷺ, their narration, precise transmission, and the verifying of their wordings.

The author names the two branches: the science of hadith in narration, and the science of hadith in understanding (dirayah).

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الْفَصْلُ الثَّانِي: أَدْوَارُ عُلُومِ الْحَدِيثِ · Chapter Two: The Eras of the Hadith Sciences

أَدْوَارُ عِلْمِ الْحَدِيثِ · Historical Stages

The author traces the science through successive eras; the first is the era of origination in the age of the Companions, reaching to the end of the first Hijri century.

كِتَابَةُ الْحَدِيثِ · Writing Down Hadith

The Prophet ﷺ did not command writing hadith as he commanded writing the Quran; he only permitted select Companions to do so.

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