History & Hadith

Importance of History – أهمية التاريخ

A man was narrating Hadiths on the authority of Khalid bin Ma’dan.

Ismail bin Ayyash asked him:

“In which year did you write narrations from Khalid bin Ma’dan?”

He replied: “In the year 113.”

Ismail said:
أنت تزعم أنك سمعت من خالد بن معدان بعد موته بسبع سنين ؟
“So you claim to have heard from Khalid bin Ma’dan 7 years after his death?”

[‘Muqaddimah Ibn al-Salah’, 1/231].