books.google.co.uk - Thehadith, the sayings attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, form a sacred literature which for the Muslims ranks second in importance only to the Qur'an itself. As a source of law, ethics and doctrine, the vast corpus ofhadithcontinue to exercise decisive influence. Islamic scholarship has hence devoted...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/%E1%B8%A4ad%C4%ABth_literature.html?id=cCnYAAAAMAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareḤadīth literature