IBN AL-JAZARI AND DISCIPLINE OF HADITH

Throughout the history of Islamic civilization, many scholars who have written works in different disciplines have been trained. One of these scholars is Ibn al-Jazarî who died in 833/1429. He wrote up many works particularly in the field of recitation (kırâah), hadith, prophetic biography and İslamic history. Some scholars have written their papers in verse (manzûm) due to the fluency in poetry, shortening of long sentences and helping the students easily memorize the text. In this study was examined Ibn al-Jazari's book named al-Hidâya fî İlmi'r-Rivâyah which composed of 370 couplets written in verse/poetic about metodology of hadith. Sahavî (d. 902/1497), wrote a broad commentary on this work called el-Ğâyeh Şerhu Metni Ibn al-Jazarî al-Hidâyah fî Ilmi’r-Rivâyah. In this work, Ibn al-Jazarî refered to almost all the issues of the hadith. He has adopted isnad-centered approach to the accuracy of hadiths and paid particular attention on knowledge of transmitters and their identities. In this context, he pointed out the following literature: Rivâyatu'l-Akâbir Ani'l-Asâğir, Rivâyatu’l-Âbâ Ani’l-Ebnâ, Marifatu’l-İhvah ve’l-Ahavât, al-Kunâ, al-Asmâ, al-Alkâb ve’l-Ansâb. In the paper, basically four topics were discussed: Belonging the work to Ibn al-Jazarî, evaluation of the work in terms of shape and content and the outstanding points in terms of the hadith in the book. In addition, we should mention that the following issues are dominant in the work: Âli isnad, conforming traditionists to the rules of good manners (âdab), the effort of grading hadith books in terms of accuracy (sıhhat) and to be meticulous in the transfer of narrations. As a result of this study, it is aimed to analyze the hadith aspect of Ibn al-Jazarî with his contribution to the Hadith discipline.

Keywords

Ibn al-Jazarî, Hadith, Methodology of Hadith, al-Hidâyah fî İlmi'r-Rivâyah.