In Studies in Legal Hadith Hiroyuki Yanagihashi seeks to clarify the processes by which hadiths on a given legal topic were formed and developed and to propose a methodology to estimate their acceptability for traditionists.
This study, relied mainly on the legal texts and hadith collections dating from the eighth and ninth centuries, provides an illuminating account of how rules regulating various transactions were formed, developped and synthesized in the formative period of Islamic law.
