Harald Motzki, Ph.D. (1978) in Islamic Studies, University of Bonn, is Professor emeritus of Islamic Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published extensively on Muslim traditions and Islamic social and legal history.Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort, Ph.D. (2012) in Religious Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, is Lecturer of Arabic and Islam at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is currently preparing a book on the biography of the Prophet Muḥammad as transmitted by Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī.Sean W. Anthony, Ph.D. (2009) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Islamic History at the University of Oregon. He is also the author of The Caliph & the Heretic: Ibn Sabaʾ and the Origins of Shiʿism (Brill, 2012).

World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran, February 2012.

• Preface1. THE JURISPRUDENCE OF IBN SHIHĀB AL-ZUHRĪ. A SOURCE-CRITICAL STUDY, Harald Motzki2. WHITHER ḤADĪTH STUDIES?, Harald Motzki3. THE PROPHET AND THE DEBTORS. A ḤADĪTH ANALYSIS UNDER SCRUTINY, Harald Motzki4. AL-RADD ʿALĀ L-RADD: CONCERNING THE METHOD OF ḤADĪTH ANALYSIS, Harald Motzki5. THE ORIGINS OF MUSLIM EXEGESIS. A DEBATE, Harald Motzki6. THE RAID OF THE HUDHAYL: IBN SHIHĀB AL-ZUHRĪ’S VERSION OF THE EVENT, Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort7. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN EARLY MEDINA: THE ORIGINS OF A MAGHĀZĪ-TRADITION, Sean W. AnthonyBibliographyIndex