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Authenticate vs Isnad - What's the difference?

authenticate | isnad |

As a verb authenticate

is to render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.

As a noun isnad is

a Muslim tradition, rather like the Christian one of Apostolic succession, that there exists a chain of human reporters from the time of Muhammad that authenticates the legitimacy of the hadith (sayings and acts of the prophet.

authenticate

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.
  • To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait.
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    isnad

    English

    (wikipedia isnad)

    Noun

  • (Islam) a Muslim tradition, rather like the Christian one of Apostolic succession, that there exists a chain of human reporters from the time of Muhammad that authenticates the legitimacy of the hadith (sayings and acts of the prophet)
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