Hadith practice is a living discursive field, not fixed citations

Evidence

To understand the importance of the b.adith within lived practice, how.. ever, one has to move beyond these authorized compilations and consider the multiple relocations and embodiments of this scholarly genre. As historians of Islam have pointed out, the boundary between scholarly practices of b. compilation and popular stories has always been permeable (Berkey 2001). This border has become even more porous in the modern period, where con.. temporary b.adith materials now range from shorter versions excerpted from authorized collections, to booklets and pamphlets on ab. about popular topics, to oral traditions that include devotional stories, sermons, and reli.. gious lessons that are both . tape.-recorded and publicly delivered. In other words, the practice of b. is not limited to the citational protocols of reli.. gious scholars, but comprises a field of proliferating discourse with multiple dislocations that, nonetheless, engages with scholarly procedures in some form or another. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 681

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that ‘hadith’ names a field of lived, relocated discourse exceeding authorized canonical compilations.
• XREF: Parallels the vault’s theme that religious/legal authority lives in practice, not merely in codified text — connects to Messick’s premodern shari’a characterization invoked right after.