The word · Hadith
المُدْرَج
Mudraj
A hadith with words inserted into it, usually a narrator's explanation that later sounded like the Prophet's speech.
Also written · Mudrej · Idraj · Mudraj hadith · Mudraj al-matn · Mudraj al-isnad · Interpolated hadith · Inserted words · Idrag
The meaning
What Mudraj means in Islam
Insertions happen in the text and, less often, in the chain. The usual sign is a phrase that explains an unfamiliar word, or that reads like a legal clause in the middle of plain speech. Scholars caught them by finding other versions where those same words appear separately as the narrator's own comment.
Evidence · Editorial · Our own summary, drawn from the sources named
Read beside it
Words that sit beside it
- MatnThe actual wording of a hadith, the part that comes after the chain of narrators.المَتْن
- IllahA hidden flaw in a hadith that looks sound on the surface, found only by expert comparison.العِلَّة
- MaqlubA hadith in which something has been switched, such as two narrators' names or two halves of a sentence.المَقْلُوب
- Riwayah bi al-Ma'naNarrating a hadith in one's own words while keeping its meaning, rather than the exact wording.الرِّوَايَةُ بِالمَعْنَى
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
- IsnadThe chain of narrators who carried a hadith, listed name by name back to its source.الإِسْنَاد
- Mawdu'A fabricated report, invented and then attached to the Prophet; not really a hadith at all.المَوْضُوع
- MusnadEither a hadith with a connected chain reaching the Prophet, or a book arranged by narrating Companion.المُسْنَد
- Sahih al-BukhariThe collection of Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari, held to be the soundest book after the Qur'an.صَحِيحُ البُخَارِيّ