Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi’s Use of Hadith within the Framework of His Work al-Fuquq

Sadr al-din al-Qonawi is one of mystic scholars who had a founding role in the formation of Anatolian mystical tradition. al-Qonawi was a long-time student of Ibn al-Arabi, who brought a new dimension to the Sufi thought. After his death, he became very effective in the settlement, systematization and spreading of Ibn al-Arabi’s ideas. The scholarly knowledge of Qonawi who is trained by important scholars of his period, is very diverse. In addition to the masterpieces that he has prepared for the Sufi literature, his works which were written in other Islamic sciences, show his scientific diversity. In addition to his competence in the special sufi knowledge, what attracts particular attention is his being particularly busy with the science of hadith. Hadith has an important place in the debates regarding the relation of mysticism and hadith, a debate that has a birth near the beginning of the hadith narrations. Qonawi is a scholar who should be analyzed in depth in terms of the hadith formation and both the hadith works and the authentic values of the ahadith he used in his works. Considering the authenticity of the narrations he used in his works, will contribute to the determination of his scholary level in hadith sciences as well as to make assumptions about the relationship of hadith and sufism. In this context, Al-Fuquq, which can be regarded as a kind of summary of Ibn al-Arabi’s al-Fus？s, is analyzed from the viewpoint of hadith and the authenticity of the ahadith are tried to be determined