Kausalität in der Muʿtazilitischen Kosmologie: Das Kitāb al-Muʾaththirāt wa-miftāḥ al-muškilāt des Zayditen al-Ḥasan ar-Raṣṣāṣ (st. 584/1188)
Abstract
Book Reviews 219 order to discern common transmitters in different chains, including the earliest one (the common link), who is considered to be the narrator who transmitted a specific Had¯ ıth (p. 10). This method yields interesting results provided that the analysed Had¯ ıth has a number of different variants. Isna¯d-cum-matn does not aim at proving the authenticity of a Had¯ ıth. Rather, it seeks to establish the probable circu- lation of a Had¯...