Part 1: Stories of the struggles that the Companions and early scholars went through in order to preserve the Sunnah - Definitions for the term “Sunnah” between the Muhadditheen, Usooli’een, Fuqahaa and Scholars of Aqeedah
Part 3: Examining the two main ayahs used by those who reject the Sunnah - Highlighting more proofs in the Qur’aan which validate the Sunnah as an authority - The five ways in which Allaah preserved the Sunnah: 1) Companion’s learning of the Sunnah with accuracy and passing it on – discussion about the early recording of the Sunnah by writing and those who wrote them...
Part 4:Preservation of the Sunnah contd: 1) Companion’s learning and passing on - discussion about the narrations that prohibit writing down hadeeth 2) Isnaad (the chain of narration) – its initial time of application 3) Establishment of the science of Jarh (declaration of unreliability) wat-Ta’deel (affirming someone’s integrity) 4) Writing - brief history of the major hadith books 5) Early generation used to travel from one land to another to obtain and re-confirm hadeeth (missing)
Part 5: Defining basic hadith terminology: Mutawaatir and Ahad (Mashhur, Aziz, Ghareeb) - Nabaweeyah and Qudsiyyah - Marfu’/Marfu’ Hukman, Mawqoof/Athar, Maqtu’ - The conditions for Saheeh & Hasan – Saheeh/Hasan li dhaatihi (Saheeh/Hasan in and of itself) Saheeh/Hasan li ghairihi (Saheeh/Hasan due to supporting evidence)