In his
introduction to Hafidh Ibn Hajar's Al-Isabah fee Tamyeez-is-Sahaaba, Dr
A.Sprenger has paid a glowing tribute to the scholars of the Traditions
(hadith):
"The glory
of the literature of the Mohammedans is its literary biography. There is
no nation, nor has there been any which like them has during twelve
centuries recorded the life of every man of letters. If the biographical
records of the Musalmans were collected, we should probably have
accounts of the lives of half a million of distinguished persons. and it
would be found that there is not a decennium of their history, nor a
place of importance which has not its representatives."
Sprenger vol.1, pg.1.
Taken from 'Ali
Miyan Nadwi's "Saviors of Islamic Spirit", chapter on the Traditionists
and Jurists of Islam with minor spelling changes.
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