Oral Torah and H. adı¯t: transmission, prohibition of writing, redaction

This apparently obvious analogy was not, however, generally recognized in the field of Islamic studies at the time of Horovitz; I. Goldziher had mentioned it in his fundamental treatise Ueber die Entwickelung des H. adı¯th (On the Development of H. adı¯t) only to dismiss it resolutely as “misguided” and “wrong.”