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THE MUSLIM EDUCATIONAL METHODOLOGY 191

Reading Name of Nameof Scribe Writing Approx.
Note No. Teacher Reader theCertificate Date ofReading attendance
13 Teachers: 35
(a) Al-BalisI- Urn 'Abdullah
(b) Al-I:IarranI- Ibn 'Alwan - 'Abdul-Latif al-Baghdadi
(c) Ibrahim bin Buhair - Ibn 'Alwan
(d)Ibn Sultan al-Maqdisi - Zainab bint Kamal - Abu Zur'a
(e) Khalid Sanqar - al-Baghdad!- Abu Zur'a
(f) Ibn Sultan al-Maqdisl - an-Nabulsi - Ibn Qudama
and 'Abdul-Latif - Abu Zur'a
Reader andScribe:
Muhammad al-Qaisi ad-Dimashqi
Date:
Tuesday, 2-11-798 A.H.
14 'Abdur- (Washed (Washed Wednesday, 15- 40
Rahman bin awqy) auay) 7-678
Muhammad
-Ibn
Qudama
15 Sittil 'Abdul-'AzIZ 'Abdul-'AzIZ Wednesday, 19-
Fuqaha'- bin bin 8-625 20
Ibn al- Muhammad Muhammad
QabItJ:- al-Kaltani al-Kaltani
Abu Zur'a

From this table we can extract that a total of 115 students studied part
six of this text directly from Ibn Qudama; those learning it through his
students in turn number roughly 450. Of the many manuscripts of Sunan
Ibn Miija in circulation at the time, there were most likely others which
listed Ibn Qudama's name in their reading certificates - manuscripts which
have yet to be discovered or which have been lost to us forever. The reams
of information bristling within this one certificate demonstrate that all
transmission diagrams drawn till now, whether for Ibn Miija or any other
work, are so meagre that we cannot even call them rudimentary without
embarrassing ourselves.

8. Impact if Hadith. A1ethodology on Other Branches

So powerful was this methodology, so well did it prove itself,that it quickly
spilled beyond the confines of hadith. literature to include almost all literary
and scholarly works:
For examples in tafsir, see the Tqfsrrs of 'Abdur-Razzaq (d. 211 A.H.)
and Sufyan ath-Thauri (d. 161 A.H.).