Hadith Listening of Children in Terms of Methodology, Opportunity and Necessity

From what age of children could listen to hadith or at what age they could narrate ahadith that they had heard is an issue in the books of usul al hadith. It is a remarkable matter how the hadith which is dabt/registration based and has different characteristics will be learned by the children just before puberty. Moreover, mainly the children lived in the age of Prophet Mohammed, the narrations by the children before puberty had been included in the sources. Therefore, taking the objections and opportunities of childhood into account, it must be studied how this issue evaluated in the books of methodology. The opportunity of children as narrators will be evaluated in this article, moreover, it will be emphasized as a necessity