The course includes studying the different types of prophetic hadith and their divisions in terms of authenticity and weakness, the number of chains of transmission, what is used and what is not used, the one to whom it is attributed, explaining consideration, follow-ups and evidence, the description of those whose narrations are accepted and those whose narrations are rejected, the levels of criticism and modification, writing and recording hadith, the honor of the student of hadith, the etiquette of the student of listening, the types of taking and the principles of narration.

The course includes: Theoretical and applied study, while the theory is divided into two parts: The first part: Research methods, including: The concept of scientific research, its objectives and characteristics, its value, the importance of supervision, types of university research, research and debate, scientific research methods (descriptive and historical, experimental, literary) • Scientific research steps: choosing the topic, its importance and controls, preparing the research, the motive for choosing, matters that must be taken into account and common matters, the plan and previous studies, and a list of primary sources. • Collecting information and recording scientific material, research tools, its problem and hypotheses, writing the research, its introduction and conclusion, indexes, reviewing the research, organizing the list of sources, the research in its final form, printing and its controls, discussion and evaluation criteria, methods of collecting, analyzing and recording data (observation, interview and questionnaire) The second part: Verifying texts, which includes: • Defining verification, the conditions of the investigator and the methods of investigators, defining heritage, its value and the interest of scholars in it. • Steps for verifying and serving the manuscript. • Rules of investigation: Selecting the manuscript and its conditions. Collecting, arranging, examining and comparing copies, its methods, focusing on the author’s copy, adopting the most correct in the event of multiple copies, the size of the book.

• The course deals with the interpretation and study of a number of verses of rulings related to the following topics: • * Verses of divorce and the rulings of Zihar * Verses prohibiting usury, and the verse of debt • * Permissibility of trade and the prohibition of eating people's money unjustly. * Verses of oaths and vows. • * Verses of the Ten Commandments in Surat Al-An'am * Verses of Jihad and the rulings on prisoners • * Verses of clothing and adornment * Verses of food and drink and the rulings on hunting * Verses of ablution and dry ablution

The course begins with a methodological introduction to the history of Quranic sciences and the beginnings of terminology as a science added to the Quran, in an attempt to identify the types of composition in Quranic sciences before the science was established during the era of Imam al-Suyuti (911 AH), then explaining the history of al-Suyuti's writing of his book "Al-Itqan fi Ulum al-Quran" with knowledge of his additions to the works that preceded it. Then the course topics are presented arranged in the order of the books of the course "Al-Itqan" so that the student can reach a comprehensive and methodical concept of al-Suyuti's classification and arrangement, then the first topic that appears in the study is "Knowledge of the compilation and arrangement of the Quran" and what it contains of disciplined stages and the problems that al-Suyuti raised and answered. Then the student studies the knowledge of stopping and starting and their issues and the terminology of scholars, interpreters and reciters in that and their examples. Then knowledge of the strange words in the Quran: its definition, compositions and issues - what was written in a language other than the Arabic language - what was written in a language other than the Hijazi language. Then knowledge of the aspects and counterparts. Definition - Books about it - The benefit of knowing it in interpretation and the meanings of its words. - Method of writing about it. In important rules that the interpreter needs to know: The rule of pronouns, the rule of masculine and feminine, the rule of definiteness and indefiniteness, the rule of singular and plural, the importance of these rules in understanding the styles of the Holy Quran. The problem of the Quran and the illusion of difference and contradiction: Definition of the problem and clarification of the scholars' doctrine on the difference between the problem and the illusion of contradiction and the comments on that - Study of models. The occasions of verses and surahs: Definition of the occasion and the composition in it, and clarification of the reason for its rare occurrence in interpretations. And the origin of the difference in its ruling as well as the types of connection between verses with each other, the connection of word and meaning, the occasion of the openings of surahs and their endings, the occasion of the opening of the surah with the ending of what precedes it, the effect of occasions in the preference between interpretative statements.

The course includes an introduction to the methods of the hadith scholars, their importance and subject matter, an introduction to the methods of the compilers according to the method of the Musnads, the chapters, and the Muwatta’, and an explanation of the method of classification in the Sahih and other books, and the dictionaries, and that is by explaining the number of hadiths in each book, its order and features, the degree of its hadiths, its position among the books of the Sunnah, the efforts of the scholars in serving it and explaining it, the conditions of the author in it, the criticisms directed at it and other matters related to the book, and an explanation of the difference between the methods of the imams of hadith and the method of contemporary authors.

The course includes studying the six books and their authors, in terms of a brief biography of them, their birth, their upbringing, their sheikhs, their travels, the narrators from them, their deaths, their copies, and the narrators from them, explaining the reason for Imam Al-Bukhari’s inclusion of suspended hadiths, both attributed to the Prophet and attributed to the Companions, and responding to Ibn Hazm, the men who spoke about them from the men of Sahih Al-Bukhari, the narrators of Sahih Al-Bukhari, and the differences in their wording, the aspects of difference between the two Sahihs, what distinguishes Muslim from Al-Bukhari, Abu Zur’ah’s criticism of Imam Muslim, the narration of Abu Al-Zubayr in Sahih Muslim, Ikrimah from Ibn Abbas, Suhayl Ibn Abi Salih, and Al-Ala’ Ibn Abd Al-Rahman, the narrators of Sahih Muslim. And also the rest of the four Sunnahs with regard to their Sunnahs and conditions.

The course includes the graduation and the study of chains of transmission on a number of topics. It addresses the graduation and the linguistic meaning of it, as well as the terminology, and includes the five famous and well-known methods of graduation from the theoretical side, as well as matters related to the narrator, his biography, and his appointment. There are other aspects that the course addresses, which are knowledge of the methods of the authors in graduation and their methods found in their books. These books have been classified according to sciences such as interpretation, hadith, belief, jurisprudence, and its principles, and finally the practical side on working through some books of hadith and what is related to them from the defective hadiths, and the approach of the imams in that such as al-Tirmidhi and al-Bazzar.

In this course, the student studies the methods of the critical imams and hadith jurists and their approaches to responding to the doubts of those who object to hadiths, and to reconciling hadiths that appear to contradict each other, and to reconciling those that differ in them. The student also learns about the imams’ responses to these doubts.

A study of selected hadiths from Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abi Dawood and al-Nasa’i, Jami’ al-Tirmidhi, Sunan Ibn Majah, and chapters from al-Muwatta’. An analytical hadith study, including explaining the meaning of the hadith, explaining strange words, identifying the subtleties of the chain of transmission, deducing legal rulings, and other matters included in the prophetic hadiths.

This course includes the linguistic and technical definition of the thematic hadith, the attention of the scholars of hadith to the thematic hadith and its classifications, the study of the thematic hadith classifications and the scholars’ methods of classifying them, and the collection of various hadiths on different topics and studying and discussing them during the lectures.

In this course, the student studies: the definition of the science of criticism and validation, its legitimacy, its origin and development, its importance and benefits, the conditions of the one who validates and invalidates, the levels of criticism and validation, studying books of criticism and validation to know the reasons for the critics’ disagreement in judging men as being criticized or validated, choosing the correct or preferred opinion regarding the disputed narrator, by assigning them to study some narrators regarding whom the opinions of the hadith scholars conflict, applying the known rules in this regard, and comparing two examples from books of criticism and validation.