| Abstract:
It has been observed that many scholars in the field of narration have
confused the application of the term "dirayat al- hadit", which is the
comprehension of narration, with the term "fiqh al- hadit, the science of
the laws of narration. The present article has undertaken to explain
these two terms with due attention to the application of each in the
history of narration. It gives a survey of the applicative transformation of
dira-yat al- hadit in three different historical eras from its early
appearance untill the present time, compares it with the present
meaning of fiqh al- hadit, and defines the logical relationship between
these two in each era.
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