Al-Bukhary's Approach in Denied Prophet Tradition "Munkar Hadith" An Applied Study of Al-Bukhary's denied Traditions in His Narrators History Books and Al Termithy Reasoning Book "Elalal Al kabeer"

(Faisal Basim Faisal Al Jawabreh)

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Abstract

The research contains the prophet traditions that were considered "denied" by Al-Bukhary. The work examines its authentication, narrators list of these traditions to judg them in addition to define Al-Bukhary's methodology of denial judgment of prohet's traditions. The research was divided into an introduction and two sections. The introduction presented the reason of chosing this topic, the work plan, and the presentation methodology. The first section contained the linguistic meaning and scholars' definition of a denied tradition. It also presented Al-Bukhary's methodology for examining traditions and judging narrators as denied. The second section contained the applied part of the work where Al-Bukhary's denied traditions in his books of narrators history and Altemthy' reasoning book were presented. Twenty-two denied traditions were reported. The work was concluded with main findings including scholars' definition of a denied tradition narrated by an untrusted or abandoned narrator. Wherever Al-Bukhary judged a narrator as denied, it is not allowed to transfere his narration. In addition, Denied traditions are classified into three section; the first is the one due to narattore's error that is clear due to contradicting trusted or numerous narrators. The second is sole narration of an untrusted or unknown narrator. The third is the sole narration from untrusted or unknown narrator with no witnesses to support. Imam Abou-Hatem agreed with Al-Bukhary in dening many traditions. This indicates that reasoning is a science based on rules and consepts that is known to tradition's critics. Key Words: Narrator errors, traditions critics, Unknown narrator.
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