UACE IRE PAPER TWO 2007 HADITH AND FIQH SECTION A

1. ‘Dhaif is the most flexible of all classes of Hadith.’ Discuss.

2. Explain the various methods of Hadith scholars used to detect forged Hadith.

3. Account for the inclusion of Ibn Majah among the six celebrated compliers of Hadith.

4. Examine Imam Muslim’s contribution to the collection and compilation of Hadith.

5. The restrictions that were placed on the recording and collection of Hadith during prophet’s time ensured the purity and protection of Hadith. Justify the above statement.

6. ‘The decision by some scholars to classfy some Hadith as Nabawi was not without justification’. Assess the validity of this statement.

7. The confrontation between rationalists and traditionalists marked the most important stage of the development of schools of legal thought. Discuss.

8. To what extent did the refinement of crude Ijithad contribute to the emergence of Qiyas as a source of law?

9. Discuss the origins of the classification of Legal acts.

10. Account for the emergence of the schools of law in Islam.

11. Examine the conditions that must hold before Hudud (punishments) are administered.

12. Explain the ways in which Muslim minority countries like Uganda learn from the experience of Sharia application in some countries of the world.

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