تکملہ فتح الملہم میں متون احادیث کی لغوی تحقیق و مباحث

The discipline of Hadith Studies is one of the richest and exclusive disciplines of knowledge as its branches extend to hundred. The religious scholars had written thousands monographs concerning Hadith interpretations and explana-tions. Many voluminous works appeared and exist and each of them is a commendable contribution to Hadith explanations. One of significant works on Hadith explanations is “Takmila Fath al-Mulhim” that is the result of scholastic efforts of many years by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani. This explanation of Hadith Book Muslim was originated and finished till the “section of Marriage” by Allama Shabbir Ahmad Usmani but he could not extend to it to the last chapter due to his political engagements and later his demise closed the chapter. Molana Muhammad Taqi Usmani completed the remaining works in 18 years & 9 months. His method of interpretation is to decipher complicated, manifold and exotic words at first as the words plays key role in authentication and validity of any connotation. He provides detailed information regarding literal and lexical meaning of a word and then with proper justification and reasoning, he gives preference to someone. He also narrates variation and diversity of meaning attached to any word and proves his standpoint about meanings with allied arguments. This article analyses his method with examples and implications.

Topics in Qualitative Randomized Response Modeling

A growing interest of researchers from diverse fields of inquiry, interlocking social sciences, marketing research and pattern recognition, can be witnessed in study of hidden aspects of individuals. The motivation of this thesis is consistent with the urge of attaining more valid data in survey-based research but with prime focus of quantification of sensitive attributes prevalent in a population. The objectives of facilitating the efforts of exploring stigmatized behaviors through surveys are met by pursuing the well celebrated randomized response approach of gathering information. Emphasizing on highly praised Kuk (1990) model, we propose suits of methods, reinforced with essential features of practical feasibility and capability of ensuring respondents’ privacy. Throughout this thesis, we report our findings in comparison with various contemporary techniques while considering variety of design parameters. A rich account of comparative performance evaluation of the proposed methods, defining the superior performance of the propositions with respect to contemporary models, is also provided. Recognizing the utility of complex sampling designs in practical research, we also offer the extensions of our work for stratified sampling design by suggesting a novel approach combining the responses from direct and indirect questioning approaches. Furthermore, applicability of randomized response approach is extended to generate masked paired comparisons data by proposing a new hybrid domain while taking clues from classic paired comparison model of Bradly and Terry (1952). Moreover, in this research we also explore strategies to pursue the statistical modeling of masked binary responses at multi-level by anticipating randomization procedure behind the extent of masking in the data. The applications of our propositions are delineated by using classic and vibrant data sets.