Introduction to the Science of Hadith
…the Introduction was not officially named by the author, there exists some speculation as to its actual title, with different possibilities suggested. al-Dhahabī referred to it as `Ulūm al-Ḥadīth, The Sciences of Hadith, as did Ibn Ḥajr and Muḥammad ibn Ja`far al-Kattānī. `Āʼishah bint `Abd al-Raḥmān said in the…