half-canonical

Updated: June 19, 2025

In the canonical and half-canonical collections of tradition concerning what the Prophet has said, done, and omitted to do, in biographical works, an answer is given to every question which may arise in the mind of the reader of the Qoran; and there are many Qoran-commentaries, in which these answers are appended to the verses which they are supposed to elucidate.

C. Snouck Hurgronje - Mohammedanism: Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth,: and Its Present State