The ahadith,prophetic traditions for the Muslims around the world,are narrations originating from the sayings and the deeds of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). They are considered one of the fundamental sources of Islamic legislation along with the Quran. The list of persons involved in the narration of each hadith is carefully scrutinized by scholars studying the hadith,with respect to their reputation and authenticity of the hadith. This is due to the its legislative importance in Islamic principles. There were many narrators who contributed to this responsibility of preserving prophetic narrations over the centuries. But to date,no systematic and comprehensive study,based on the social network,has been adapted to understand the contribution of early hadith narrators and the propagation of hadith across generations. In this study,we represented the chain of narrators of the hadith collection from Sahih Bukhari as a social graph.
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