5l< Alfred von Kremers edition of Wakidy. [No. 1. 



from the verb wajad " to find." It means that A. B. has got 

 hold of a book containing hadythes in the handwriting of a Shaykh 7 

 but the contents of the book have not been verbally or by ijazah 

 communicated to him. In this case A. B. must not say akhba- 

 rand "I have been informed," but he must say "I have found," or 

 "I have read in the hand-writing of C. D." or "in a book written 

 in the hand writing of 0. D." 



In Iraoj's Alfyah, it is explained nearly in the same terms : 

 jd&J \dyo &j&^ # jt>*ax> ijJi j B^La^jJf J> 



" The last [and least satisfactory mode of propagating Aadythes] 

 is the wijadah. This is a verbal noun from wajad "to find," it has 

 been newly coined with a view of distinguishing this meaning from 

 other meanings of this root [as wijdan which is used if it means 

 " to feel" or wojud " existence."] The term wijadah is used if you 

 find Aadythes in the handwriting of one of your contemporaries or 

 a man of bye-gone days, whose lectures you have not heard and from 

 whom you do not hold an ijazah. In this case you say " I have 

 found in his hand- writing." But if you are not quite sure whether it 

 is his hand-writing you must be on your guard, and you merely say 

 " I found this 7*adyth from A. B." or you use the expressions " It is 

 said" or "I believe." 



Pages 1, 17, 43, 69, 95, 121, 149, 178, 206, 229, 255, 281, 306 

 and 357 of Kremer's text and p. 35 of Lees's Fotu^ al-Sham contain 

 specimens of the manner in which the string of authorities is stated 

 in the commencement of every fasciculus. It is distinctly mentioned 

 in the MS. of EotuA that where the isnad stands commenced in the 

 original, the second fasciculus. 



A specimen of a Sama or the form in which it is written at the 

 end of each fasciculus will be found lower down. As I have pre- 

 pared for the press a work* on " the Canons of Historical criticism 



* This work is a translation of the Tyqryb wa Taysyr of Nawawy illustrated 

 with notes from Soyuty's commentary on it, from Nawawy's Irshdd, Ibn Calais 

 'olum alhadyth, 'Iraqy's Afyyah and its two commentaries, from the dictionary of- 

 the technical terms used in traditions, from the I'ldm of Qadbiy 'Iyadh (a very 



