الفتح الربانى لترتيب مسند الامام احمد بن حنبل الشيبانى میں شیخ احمد عبدالرحمن البنا الساعاتی کا منہج و اسلوب

Former Egyptian Muḥaddithīn of the each centuries have played a well-regarded, venerated and esteemed role in services of Ḥadīth and its sciences. Their outstanding contribution in this regard has been appreciated in each century of Islamic history. Those Muḥaddithīn have left valuable work on Ḥadīth and its sciences in their popular and basic sources of Ḥadīth for coming generations. Muḥaddithīn of 20th century were not less than the former in their involvement in the field of Hadith. Their dynamic and marvelous efforts are needed to be unveiled for scholars and students of Ḥadīth. Al-shaykh Abdur Raḥmān al Banna Al sāʻātī is known as one of the prominent Egyptian Muḥaddithīn in 20th century. He made extraordinary efforts in the field of Ḥadīth and its sciences through compiling and writing various remarkable books in this regard. His marvelous work in Alfatḥ Al-Rabbānī li Tartīb Musnad Al-Imām Aḥmad bin Hanbal Al-Shaybānī on Musnad Imām Aḥmad bin Hanbal in its rearranging, categorizing and organizing its Ḥadīth is deserved to be cherished and focused on due to its significance and importance in the field of Ḥadīth. He is the first Muḥaddith who presented the Aḥādīth of Musnad in seven outstanding chapters to facilitate the researchers in their accessing to the main theme of the Musnad. In this paper the life sketch of Al-Shayk Abdur Raḥmān, his scholarly contribution in the field of Ḥadīth and his methodology in his renowned book alfatḥ al-Rabbānī has been discussed and highlighted its valuable aspects.

Exploring the Efficiency of Educational Games in Improving Grade Vi Students’ Achievement in Selected Science Concepts on Science Achievement Test Sat

Educational games are nowadays gaining popularity among many science practitioners for its potential to improve students' performance in science by enhancing their conceptual understanding, motivation and peer collaboration. However, its efficacy in improving achievement has not yet been explored in the Pakistani context. Therefore, this study aimed at exploring the efficacy of educational games in improving grade VI students' achievement in selected science concepts on Science Achievement Test (SAT). This study employed quasi-experimental pre-and posttest control group design. For the sample, two intact classes of grade VI were recruited from two private community based schools and then assigned as comparison group (CO) and intervention group (10). In total, 60 students participated constituting of equal number of students from both groups. For data collection, SAT which was developed and validated as part of this study was administered to both groups before and after intervention. The intervention comprised of four weeks during which 10 was pre-dominantly taught with educational games whereas, CO was taught with the pre-existing teaching method. The data obtained were analyzed for students' overall performance, performance on SAT content and cognitive domains on both pretest and posttest. Findings of the study illustrated that before intervention, both the groups evenly matched on their overall performance on SAT as well as their performances in the content and cognitive domains with no significant difference (p> 0.05 for all). Conversely, after intervention, both the groups improved; however, the overall performance on SAT favored 10 (p< 0.01) with the large magnitude of difference (r=0.70; r2= 0.49). Likewise, on SAT content domains, 10 outperformed CO with significant difference (p