Brinkmann, Stefanie: “Between Philology and Hadith Criticism: The Genre of Sharḥ Gharīb al-Ḥadīth”. In: Blecher, Joel and Brinkmann, Stefanie (eds.): Hadith Commentary. Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2023.
In her chapter on gharīb al-ḥadīth, Stefanie Brinkmann explores this genre as nucleus for the coming multi-thematic hadith commentary, describes its oscillation between lexicography and hadith sciences, traces its production in history, and presents formal structures of the different works.
