# Qatar ministry closes fifth season of Hadith seminars > The closing session at Lusail University examined the history and methods of Hadith transmission and the role of digital tools in scholarship. - Canonical URL: https://newsverum.com/en/news/culture-ministry-concludes-fifth-hadith-seminar-season - Publisher: Newsverum - Section: Culture - Country: Qatar - Published: 2026-10-12T00:06:31+00:00 - Updated: 2026-10-12T00:06:31+00:00 - Event / data period: 2026-10-11 - Other editions: [Türkçe](https://newsverum.com/tr/news/culture-ministry-concludes-fifth-hadith-seminar-season.md), [العربية](https://newsverum.com/ar/news/culture-ministry-concludes-fifth-hadith-seminar-season.md), [Français](https://newsverum.com/fr/news/culture-ministry-concludes-fifth-hadith-seminar-season.md), [Español](https://newsverum.com/es/news/culture-ministry-concludes-fifth-hadith-seminar-season.md), [Deutsch](https://newsverum.com/de/news/culture-ministry-concludes-fifth-hadith-seminar-season.md), [Português](https://newsverum.com/pt/news/culture-ministry-concludes-fifth-hadith-seminar-season.md) Qatar’s Ministry of Culture concluded its fifth seminar season at Lusail University on October 11 with a session on the recording and critical study of Prophetic Hadith. Historian Bashar Awad Marouf discussed how scholars assess transmitters, chains of transmission and textual variants, as well as the use of digitization and artificial intelligence in manuscript research. Marouf said some sayings had been written during the Prophet Muhammad’s lifetime and that recording expanded in the first century AH, while compilation and classification developed in the second. He cautioned against treating the absence of a report from Sahih al-Bukhari or Sahih Muslim as sufficient proof that it is weak, and described authenticity assessment as a broader examination of sources and transmission routes. The ministry said the season ran from October 1 to 11; the October 11 seminar marked its conclusion. ## Data ### Ministry seminar season The fifth season and its closing date as reported by Qatar’s Ministry of Culture to QNA. Methodology: The season number is stated in the source; it is an ordinal, not a count of seminar sessions. The dates are given in the article text. | Season number | |---| | 5 | Sources: · Download data: [JSON](https://newsverum.com/api/v1/articles/culture-ministry-concludes-fifth-hadith-seminar-season/data/qatar-hadith-seminar-season?lang=en&format=json) · [CSV](https://newsverum.com/api/v1/articles/culture-ministry-concludes-fifth-hadith-seminar-season/data/qatar-hadith-seminar-season?lang=en&format=csv) ## Sources - [Qatar News Agency]() (Source checked: 2026-10-12; Published: 2026-10-11) --- Cite the canonical URL above. [Editorial standards and corrections](https://newsverum.com/en/editorial)