Ibn Hibban's Narrator Critisim Method in His Book Named Kitabu'l-Majruhin


Ibn Hibban is important scholar lived in fourth century who became sources for last centurys with his books. The books he written related to the narrators. One of these books is Kitabu’l- Majruhin. In fact it is part of the Kitabu’t-Tarihi’l-Kabir. The another part is Kitabu’s-Sikat according to Ibn Hibban’s description. Kitabu’l- Majruhin was written after Kitabu’s-Sikat. This book came forward amongs the books written about weak narrators because it contained a lot of narrators, the comments about the weak narrators belongs to the authorities and the hadiths of the narrators whom took part in this book. The basic aim of this article is to find out Ibn Hibbân’s method in which used while examined the narrators. As we see he had three instrument on rijal criticism. One of them is clues while he met as authority with any narrator. Second of them is the comments which transmitted from first authorities about tha narrators and third is the hadiths belongs to the narrators. We saw after our search that he fulfilled the examine of the narrators by this instruments. The methods he used in this frame; using the knowladge of the life of prophet Mohammed (p.b.u.h.) and rijal, the comparison of weak and reliable narrators or studend and teacher, the searching same hadith in various times or own manuscript. Ibn Hibbân’s applaying these methods in narrators criticism proves that the science of al-jarh and al-ta’dîl has both dynamic dimension and consistent tradition.


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Ibn Hibban, Kitabü’l-Majruhin, the Narrator criticsim, Method, The Weak Narrator.

Author : Yavuz KÖKTAŞ -İsmail KURT
Number of pages: 713-725
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.39893
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Turkish Studies-Comparative Religious Studies
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