Dinbilimleri Akademik Araştırma Dergisi

Abstract

Hadith methodology is the science that aims to distinguish the weak and sahih i.e genuine reports that are thought to have been narrated by the Prophet Muhammad and it describes the necessary technical terms and rules. Hadith methodology started to be formed according to the need; it was practiced and developed gradually and accumulatively. However, it has been possible to write down the hadith study methods and reforms since the end of the second century. Even the hadith methods, pedestals, and technical terms in the works in the third century that did not have suitable hadith methods, it is visible that these methods also were the source of the detached hadith method works which were later written. One of the works that covered on the main subjects of the hadith methodology in the third century is the Bukhari’s Al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaḥīḥ. Bukhârî focused on hadith education and teaching methods known as taḥammul and edā that are explained in detail in the "Kitāb al-‘ilm" chapter of his work, and he mentioned about the principles of the hadith student and hadith teacher (ādāb al-muḥaddith and ādāb al-ṭālib al-hadith). Moreover, he also emphasized to the journeys, that are done to learn hadiths and called as (al-riḥla fī al-hadîth), lying on behalf of the Prophet (kiz̲b al-rāwī) and the preservation and writing of hadiths (ḥifẓ and kitābāh). He examined these issues with an unique approach. He not only tried to prove them with the fiction that he created with hadith narrations, but also strengthened his methods with the views of famous scholars in the hadith science. This article aims to reveal the contributions of Buk̲h̲ārī to the hadith methodology by underliying special the references related to hadith contents, taken from the “Kitāb al-‘ilm” chapter of his work.