What does Al-ghariyb mean?

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Discover the meaning of the term Al-ghariyb (غَرِيب) in Islamic vocabulary.

Definition Al-ghariyb

Al-ghariyb according to Dustur al-'Ulama (Al-Ahmadnagari)

The needy, the traveler, and the rare thing. According to hadith scholars, the gharib is the hadith whose chain of transmission is continuous back to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, but is narrated by a single transmitter, either from the successors or the successors of the successors.

Al-ghariyb according to Mu'jam al-Mustalahat al-Fiqhiyya

The legal theorists defined it as: that whose specific type influences the specific type of the ruling, while its genus does not influence the genus of the latter, and this by arranging the ruling in accordance with it and establishing it with it in its instances, not through a text or a consensus. Ibn al-Hajib said: The gharib is that whose particular entity is established as being considered in the particular entity of the ruling simply by arranging the ruling in accordance with it, but without it being established by a text or consensus that its particular entity is considered in the genus of the ruling, nor its genus in the particular entity of the ruling, nor its genus in the genus of the ruling. Al-Mujaz fi Usul al-Fiqh, p. 234.

Al-ghariyb according to Maqalid al-'Ulum (As-Suyuti)

That which is narrated uniquely by a trustworthy and rigorous transmitter.

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