🕌Sciences of Hadith

Imam Ahmad’s approach to explaining hadiths

منهج الإمام أحمد في إعلال الأحاديث

Author: بشير علي عمر

About this work

هذا كتاب في علوم الحديث يدرس منهج الإمام أحمد بن حنبل في نقد الأحاديث والحكم عليها بالعلة، من خلال تتبع أقواله في كتب العلل والمسائل. يستعرض المؤلف المصادر التي دوّنت منهج الإمام أحمد في الإعلال، مثل كتاب العلل برواية ابنه عبد الله وروايات أخرى، ثم يفصل في أنواع الإعلال بالطعن في الرواة، كالجهالة أو ما يخل بالعدالة. يهدف الكتاب إلى الكشف عن القواعد والضوابط التي اعتمدها الإمام أحمد في تمييز الأحاديث الصحيحة من الضعيفة.

Translation

This is a book on the sciences of hadith that studies the approach of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal in criticizing hadiths and judging them based on reason, by following his sayings in the books on reasons and issues. The author reviews the sources that recorded Imam Ahmad’s approach to explanations, such as the Book of Reasons according to the narration of his son Abdullah and other narrations, then he details the types of explanations by criticizing the narrators, such as ignorance or what violates justice. The book aims to reveal the rules and regulations that Imam Ahmad adopted in distinguishing authentic hadiths from weak ones.

Topics covered

First volume
introduction
Chapter One: Brief introduction to Imam Ahmad
The first topic: his name, lineage, family, birth, and upbringing
The second topic: his scientific life
The third section: His imamate and his status among hadith scholars
Section Four: His ordeal
Section Five: Its scientific effects
Section Six: His death
The second requirement: The method of presenting the scientific material in the book
The second requirement: his approach to presenting the scientific material in the book
The fifth section: The book of issues of Imam Ahmad, narrated by his son Saleh
The second requirement: The method of presenting the scientific material of the book
Chapter Two: Explaining hadiths by challenging their narrators
Chapter One: The justification for challenging the narrator with ignorance
The first topic: The criterion of ignorance according to Imam Ahmad
The second topic: The companion’s ignorance is not a problem
Chapter Two: The justification for challenging the narrator in a way that violates his justice
entrance
The first requirement: proving the situation with evidence dating back to the narrator’s situation
The second requirement: proving the situation with evidence dating back to the situation narrated
The fourth requirement: There are multiple ways of having a hadith that is false by its narrator
The fifth topic: Some of Imam Ahmad’s terms in this section
The second topic: The reason for attacking the narrator with an innovation in him
The first requirement: Definition of heresy and its people

منهج الإمام البخاري في تصحيح الأحاديث وتعليلها