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If Muslims, in creating their civilisation, have borrowed from the cultures of ancient Greece, Persia and India, the psychological elements of their contribution are mainly established on the basis of Qur'anic -concept of God's Book and the Sunna, the corpus of Prophetic traditions that expounds and elucidates God's Revelations.
well known for their probity and good memory in narrating what they relate, and that nothing in their Hadith is marred by remote divergences or glaring contradictions, as it had been noticed in the narratives of m,any 'traditionists, "After we have studied thoroughly the reports of this category of guarantors, we insert next the traditions, the attestations of which cannot : be as accurate and well-memorised as the previous one.
Juynboll in his article 'Hadith' in The Encyclopaedia14 of Islam did not fail to express his admiration of the efforts exerted by Muslims in the critical studies they made bearing on the traditions of their Prophet, notwithstanding the misinterpretations abounding in his article.
So 'Umar Ibn 'Abdul 'Aziz ordered the recording of the Prophetic traditions, regarded at that time as the ultimate science of Muslims, second only to the Quran.
It should not be understood that the purely religious aspects of life as related to Prophetic traditions had not been given ample consideration by the early Islamic community when Muslim scholars started collecting and· recording the Hadith.
(24) The tradition~ reported by Abu Huraira and other transmitters mentioned above, bearing on the i_nodahbes _of prayers are found in the chapters of prayer in the $a!,i~ of Bukhari, the Sahih of Muslim, Sunan of Abu Dawood and other Hadith works.