%0 Journal Article
%T The Isolated £¿ad¨©th in the Context of ¡®Um¨±m-al-Balw¨¡: Examining the Issue in the Light of the First Generation of £¿anaf¨© Scholars
%A Mohamad Anas Sarmini
%J -
%D 2018
%X The aim of this research is to discuss the issue of £¿anaf¨© scholars¡¯ abandoning the isolated £¿ad¨©th in the context of ¡®Um¨±m al-Balw¨¡, which is one of the controversial issues in contrast to Ahl al-Ra¡¯y. Most of the Mutakallim¨±n and Mu£¿addith¨±n do not accept this criterion in differentiating between the accepted prophetic narrations and the rejected ones. There are two methodologies in the classical Islamic points of view that govern this topic. The first is the causal approach, which seeks the integration of evidence and the coherence in the texts. In the context of the supposed conflict of evidence, they resort to interpretation, they do not accept breaking the general rules except for the context of certainty, which means the authentic certain mutaw¨¡tir or the mashh¨±r £¿ad¨©th. The Second is the apparent "£¿¨¡hir¨©" approach that looks for the individual evidence and texts. It works on making all of the narrations applicable. In the context of the contradiction between the general and special texts, they erase the conflict by specialization or restriction, and resort to the interpretation only when it is necessary. These two approaches appeared during the earliest Islamic era, when the companions interpreted the famous hadith of Ban¨± Quray£¿a about praying the ¡®A£¿r prayer and then they appeared in the following historical periods, especially in the main two streams of Sunn¨© schools, namely Ahl al-£¿ad¨©th and Ahl al-Ra¡¯y. One of the results of these two methods is the issue of ¡®Um¨±m al-Balw¨¡ which is appealed to by the first approach. It means not accepting the isolated £¿ad¨©th which reaches us by the individual narrators and rejecting it in the case that its details and contexts requires it to be mutaw¨¡tir, because the content requires that not only should many people have learnt it but that it then needs to have been transmitted. When such a hadith brings us down to one person, it makes itself suspicious, and it needs to be reconsidered as to whether it will be accepted or left to the original rules and a£¿k¨¡m. It is clear that the second approach does not accept such an argument. That approach deals with each hadith as an independent hadith. So, this issue is located in a common area between the U£¿¨±l al-£¿ad¨©th and U£¿¨±l al fiqh. Both the Mu£¿addith¨±n and the U£¿¨±liyy¨±n studied it. This research aims to take a profound look at this issue in the earliest texts of Ahl al-Ra¡¯y. Thus, to explore it and trying to understand it from their point of view and not the later views, i.e. the muta¡¯akhir¨±n, of the £¿anaf¨© scholars. The research informs us of much of the
%K ¡®Um£¿mu¡¯l-belva
%K ahad haber
%K Hanef£¿ mezhebi
%K Cessas
%K £¿sa b. Eban
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/maruifd/issue/42711/515294