The word · Hadith
المُعَلَّق
Mu'allaq
A chain with its beginning cut off, where the author omits the narrators nearest to himself.
Also written · Muallaq · Mualaq · Muallak · Muallaqat · Mu'allaqat · Taliq · Ta'liq · Suspended hadith · Muallaqat al-Bukhari · Muallaq hadith
The meaning
What Mu'allaq means in Islam
The word means hung, as though the chain dangles with nothing above it. Al-Bukhari includes many mu'allaq reports in his Sahih, and scholars read them by their wording: those he states firmly, in the active form, are generally reliable and usually connected elsewhere in the book, while those he introduces with a passive form such as it is narrated are weaker. Ibn Hajar traced their full chains in a separate work.
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Read beside it
Words that sit beside it
- Munqati'A chain with a break in it: a narrator missing somewhere in the middle.المُنْقَطِع
- Mu'dalA chain missing two or more narrators in a row, a wider break than munqati'.المُعْضَل
- Sahih al-BukhariThe collection of Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari, held to be the soundest book after the Qur'an.صَحِيحُ البُخَارِيّ
- TakhrijTracing a hadith to the books that recorded it, gathering its chains, and then grading it.التَّخْرِيج
More from Hadith
- AdalahThe uprightness of a narrator: sane, adult, Muslim, not openly sinful, not known for shameful habits.العَدَالَة
- GharibA hadith narrated by only one person at some point in its chain.الغَرِيب
- Ilm al-RijalThe biographical science of the narrators: who they were, whom they met, and how reliable each was.عِلْمُ الرِّجَال
- MashhurA hadith carried by three or more narrators at each stage, well known but short of mutawatir.المَشْهُور
- MusannafA collection arranged by legal topic that includes Companion and follower statements alongside hadith.المُصَنَّف
- Riyad al-SalihinAl-Nawawi's topical collection on character and worship, the hadith book most widely read by ordinary Muslims.رِيَاضُ الصَّالِحِين