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IslamQA: English books for learning about hadith

Assalamualaykum. Do you have any book recommendation for learning hadiths? Thank you

Alaikumassalam wa rahmatullah,

If you mean English books, here are some good ones I have read:

  • Jonathan A. C. Brown, Misquoting Muhammad (2014)
  • Tarif Khalidi, Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period (1994)
  • Jonathan A. C. Brown, The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim  (2007)
  • Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf, Mālik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period (2013)
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