Encyclopedia of Hadith Forgeries: al-Asrar al-Marfu'a fil-Akhbar al-Mawdu'a: Sayings Misattributed to the Prophet Muhammad

'The Lifting of Secrets Concerning Forged Reports.' Sayings misattributed to Prophet Muhammad(PBUH). 'The Lifting of Secrets Concerning Forged Reports' was written over 400 years ago by a respected and prolific Meccan savant of Afghan origin.

Mulla Ali al-Qari [d.1014/1605], may Allah be pleased with him, was thoroughly familiar with the large body of critical literature on hadith forgery, which he refined and reordered alphabetically into 625 entries. Al-Qari's last work, it is the only catalogue of forgeries with a transmission-based and content-based critique, illustrating the authors vast erudition as well as his lenient choices in hadith methodology and his classic hanafi and sufi views.

A total of 3,000 reports are docu­mented in this volume covering Doctrinal and Juridi­cal forgeries

Shia for­geries Sufi for­geries racial forgeries Misogynistic for­geries, Food forgeries 'Israelite' forgeries Medical forgeries Sex forgeries Spurious books spurious grave-spots and more. The translator has added his own study of the forgery and 'famous hadith' genres, the life and works of the author, extensive footnotes and exhaustive indices. A total of 3000 reports are documented in this volume covering doctrinal and juridical forgeries, and many other spurious works.

The 230-page introduction in seven sections consists 1. Forgers and the reasons for hadith forgeries 2. Characteristics of forged content and matn implausibility 3. Notorious forgers 4. Typology of forgeries 5. "Famous Hadith" and "Forgery" compilations 6. Bio-bibliography of Mulla `Ali al-Qari 7. Salient Features of al-Qari's Asrar

It also contains a full bibliography and seven indexes totalling 138 pages. The book totals 740 pages and 1558 footnotes, and discusses approximately 3,000 hadiths in the twin lights of current and past scholarly expertise of this field.

This is the first and long overdue au­thentic refer­ence work on hadith forgeries in English.