A Must-Read Paper about Hadith ورقة بحثية عن دراسة الحديث

[Mahmoud Fawzi]

Hello everyone,

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

Since I started studying Hadith, I realized that there is a growing number of researchers interested in it, especially those who focus on the Arabic language.

Hence, I thought it might be useful to share with you our recent CSCW paper which is the first work to explore Hadith presence on social media quantitatively. 

There are a lot of interesting findings related to looking at Hadith through a social lens. More importantly, we dedicate a lot of space to question the common practices that people follow when studying Hadith. We believe many of them require improvement and we provide suggestions for that.

I hope you have an enjoyable read and we are happy to get feedback from you.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3711090

P.S. anyone having difficulty accessing the paper can contact me

Best regards

Mahmoud

[Mahmoud Fawzi]

Good morning everyone,

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

I would like to thank everyone who contacted me and showed interest in our CSCW paper that I shared earlier. The comments were beyond my expectations.

There is another very relevant study that we conducted and will appear in ICWSM 2026. However, since a lot of people are preparing their ArabicNLP submissions for the shared tasks, I thought it makes more sense to share the study here now.

This study addresses Hadith through a social lens too; however, it focuses on fabricated Hadith as a form of religious misinformation. We demonstrate how Hadith fabrication can have serious social implications and we explore the characteristics of users who interact with it.

I think the paper is very relevant for anyone participating in IslamicEval shared task and serves as a good starting point for motivating why LLMs' religious hallucinations can have serious consequences.

It is also relevant for anyone participating in AraGenEval shared task as it demonstrates a practical example where Arabic authorship attribution can be used to mitigate misinformation. The author in our case is a very respected and important character, namely prophet Muhammad PBUH.

I hope you have an enjoyable read and we are happy to get feedback from you.

Link for the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07845

Biblatex for the paper: @article{fawzi2026holiness, title={Fabricating Holiness: Characterizing Religious Misinformation Circulators on Arabic Social Media}, author={Fawzi, Mahmoud and Ross, Bj{ö}rn and Magdy, Walid}, booktitle={Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media}, volume={20}, year={2026} } 

P.S. anyone having difficulty accessing the paper can contact me

Best regards
Mahmoud