The Messenger of Allah said: Explanation of the hadith in four hundred years by Joel Bleicher, translated by Dr. Ahmed Mahmoud Ibrahim

This book addresses an important topic that Western academia has not fully given its due in terms of study and consideration, which is the topic of "Explanation of the Prophetic Hadith." It adopts a different approach from the usual in modern Arab studies that have tackled this subject; it aims to establish the connection between the explanations of Hadith and the political, social, and intellectual context in which the authors of these explanations lived, and their influence on it was inevitable and unavoidable. The approach it presents is based on studying the explanations written on "Sahih Al-Bukhari" in three different regions, during three different historical periods, with an overview of the interest shown by Islamist groups in Hadith explanations in the present time, and tracking the aspects of continuity and change that occurred in these explanations, after the tradition of explanation moved from the era of manuscripts to the era of printing, then to the era of video. It also considers the periods in which the explainers' reasons were connected to the ruling elite, to the periods in which they distanced themselves from political power, and from the periods in which some textual and institutional references, which cannot be challenged in reality, were organized, to the periods where it became possible to challenge these references themselves.