Original Table of Contents

The 19 chapters of Kitab al-Ilm

The original Urdu/Arabic Table of Contents (Fehrist) lists 19 chapters (Abwab) in Kitab al-Ilm. They are, in order:

1. Bab Fadl al-Ilm wa al-Alim — Excellence of Knowledge and the Scholar (p. 1) 2. Bab fi Adab al-Ilm — Etiquettes of Knowledge (p. 6) 3. Bab fi Adab al-Ta'lim — Etiquettes of Teaching (p. 11) 4. Bab al-I'tisam bil-Kitab wal-Sunnah — Holding Fast to the Book and the Sunnah (p. 15) 5. Bab ma yulhaq bil-Sunnah — Good Innovation (Bid'ah Hasanah) (p. 23) 6. Bab fi al-Bid'ah al-Sayyi'ah — Evil Innovation (p. 28) 7. Bab fi Dham al-Ulama al-Su' — Condemnation of Evil Scholars (p. 31) 8. Bab fi Raf' al-Ilm — The Lifting of Knowledge (p. 35) 9. Bab Ilm al-Qur'an wa Ta'limihi — Knowledge of the Qur'an and its Teaching (p. 38) 10. Bab Ahadith al-Rasul wa Naqlihi — Hadith of the Messenger and their Transmission (p. 42) 11. Bab fi Kitabat al-Hadith — Writing the Hadith (p. 45) 12. Bab Jarrad al-Qur'an an Ghayrihi — Separate the Qur'an from Other than It (p. 48) 13. Bab Ithm al-Kadhib ala al-Nabi ﷺ — The Sin of Lying against the Prophet ﷺ (p. 49) 14. Bab Sihhat al-Riwayah wa Sidq al-Rawi — Soundness of Narration and Truthfulness of the Narrator (p. 51) 15. Bab Zaman Tahammul al-Saghir — At What Age a Child Can Become a Bearer of Hadith (p. 53) 16. Bab al-Ijma' wa Ittiba' al-Sawad al-A'zam — Consensus of the Ummah and Following the Great Majority (p. 55) 17. Bab fi al-Qiyas bi-Ghayri Wajh Shar'i — Applying Reasoning without a Shari'i Basis (p. 57) 18. Bab fi al-Qiyas bil-Wajh al-Shar'i — Qiyas Based on Shari'ah (p. 59) 19. Bab fi al-Taqlid wa al-Su'al Ahl al-Dhikr — Following Qualified Scholars and Asking the People of Knowledge (p. 63)