This volume covers Hadith terminology, sources of Hadith chains of narration, categories of Hadith, the criteria for Hadith narrators, and transmission of Hadith. It also includes a translation of a seminal work on Hadith studies, 'Durriyat Al-Hadith' by the renowned sixteenth-century Shia scholar Al-Shahid Al-Thani, the work that paved the way for the modern Shia study of Hadith.