Hadith report, the scale of the report's transmission, the routes through which the report was transmitted, and the individual narrators involved in its transmission. On the basis of these criteria, various classifications were devised for hadith. The earliest comprehensive work in hadith studies was Abu Muhammad al-Ramahurmuzi's "al-Muhaddith al-Fasil", while another significant work was al-Hakim al-Naysaburi's "Ma‘rifat ‘ulum al-hadith". Ibn al-Salah's "ʻUlum al-hadith" is considered the standard classical reference on hadith studies. By means of hadith terminology, hadith are categorized as "ṣaḥīḥ" (sound, authentic), "ḍaʿīf" (weak), or "mawḍūʿ" (fabricated). Other classifications used also include: "ḥasan" (good), which refers to an otherwise
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (play) presents arguments both in favour of and opposing euthanasia and to what extent government should be allowed to interfere in the life of a private citizen. In portraying Ken as an intelligent man with a useless body, he leaves the audience with conflicting feelings about his desire to end his life. The play was televised on 12 March 1972 by Granada TV. It was directed by Richard Everitt, with the cast that featured Ian McShane (Ken), Suzanne Neve (Dr. Scott), and Philip Latham (Dr. Emerson). "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" opened at the Mermaid Theatre, London, on 6 March 1978,