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AbstractThe individuals who narrated the hadith in the Six Books attracted the specific attention of hadith scholars. Their backgrounds and positions from the perspective of al-jarh and al-taʿdil were scrutinised. However, there were some errors in determining the narrator, especially when the name found on the chains of transmission is not the original name. This created difficulties for hadith researchers when directly referring to the book of rijal as the narrator’s biography traditionally used the narrator’s real name. Even the entry of a particular narrator’s name sometimes could not be found. Hence, this article aims to examine the error in the names of eight individuals who narrated the hadith in the Six Books. In this regard, the qualitative research was carried out using the content analysis tool on the texts of hadiths and works of rijal. The results showed that this error stemmed from excerpts from other books, identical names of narrators, differences between manuscripts, attributions to ancestral names, inverted paternal and grandfather names, and errors in the narrators’ names. In short, the ability of al-jarh and al-taʿdil scholars to identify errors in the name of the narrators reveals their thoroughness in criticising the chains of transmission of hadith.
Al-Bayan: Journal of Qur’an and Hadith Studies – Brill
Published: Dec 5, 2022
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