hadith indexes (الْمَشْيَخَات)

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التعريف :

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Books in which a hadith scholar lists the names of his teachers and the hadith books he learnt from them, outlining his chain of transmission up to the authors of such books. They are also called athbāt, fahāris and maꜤājim, which respectively mean: records, indexes and glossaries.