Supervisors:
Dr. Hussein Abdelhamid Al‐Naqeeb
Authors:
Tha'er Ragheb Abd Al-Rahmman Al-Shrouf
Abstract:
Praise be to God and peace and prayer be upon him the Messenger , Mohammad . This paper is entitled the interpretation of the prophetic traditions (Hadiths) in the book of Fathrl Bary expounded by Sahih AL- Bokhari by Ben Hajar AL-asgalany .The work is presented for completing the master degree at AL-Najah University –Nablus .At the University the Faeulty of the Islamc Law (Sharia) made a plan for the interpretation of prophetic tradition which Ben Hajr al- asgalani mentioned in his book Al - fath in the course of explaining , interpreting and commenting on Al- sahiha hadiths ( sahih Al- bokhari some of the hadiths he repaired to in his exposition were in sahih muslim , others were in others books some of these are good , others are not.in his book , Al- fath , Ibn hajr judged on some of these Hadiths , but overlooked the others so , the college of sharia and Hadith learners at the Faculty of higher studies proposed that the students of Hadiths should work on this valuable book so as to be beproduced and present to people especially . Learners of legal sciences in a good manner . this will in turn enable students to consult it and make use of it .It should be pointed out that this book is not only useful for students of legal science but for jurists and interpreters , as well . The methodology of this paper is based on firstly , referred to in book ( fath Al- Bari ) . I’ve listed the hadith in the compilation of chapter forty- two of the book of Al- Azan entitled as ( when food is ready and prayer is performed ……..until the book of Al-Jum’a – The book that follows A L- azan’s.
Secondly , I’ve interpreted these hadiths through looking for them in their places in the different kind of Sunna book like Al- sihah , Al-sunnas and Al-Masanid and others . Wherever I’ve found the hadith , I cited it in my paper . It’s worth- mentioning that Ibn hajr didn’t refer some of the Prophetic traditions to book of sunna or hadith.
Thirdly , after I have gathered these hadiths from their places , I only wrote down one text from among those ones as they are similar though the Asanids are different . Then , comes the matter of judgement on the hadith through considering men of Isnad showing their ranks and conditions in terms of validity , weakness , accuracy and In other words , showing whether the relator is an authorative source , memorizer and amaster . Furthermore , knowing the levels for descrbing untrusted or weak narrates through relying on book of men and background know ledge including the lengthy and the detailed like book of Al-kamal by yousuf Ben Al- mezi and the briefs and the concises as ( Al-Taqrib on book ) by Ibn Hajr.
Fourthly , after I have judged the Isnad of Hadith in terms of strength and weakness , Iook for other evidence that supports the truth or which raise its level from the extent of good to right ,or from weak to good . This requires that the Hadith must be told by more than one of the Companions of the Prophet
Fifthly, knowing the meaning of the commonly used difficult terms, which the reader may find strange, especially if he is not from people of Hadith or sharia. This should be done through putting a number next to them in the text of Hadith and then, giving the meaning in the footnotes of this work. The meaning must be given based on books of Ggharib AL-Hadith as Al-Nihaya at Ggharib Al-Ather by Abu Al-Sa’adat Al-Juzari or on Arabic dictionaries like book of Lesan Al-Arab by Ibn Manthur, in a simple and easy manner that conveys the message and serves the purpose without boring long-windedness.
Sixthly, in conclusion this paper included the methodology and findings I reached to and some of the recommendations. Moreover, I included the work with some of the indexes which may enable the reader to refer to and extract information as quickly as possible. For example, I set a table of content arranged on the jurist books and chapter, bound by Ibn Hajrs’s. I also set an index verses and distinguished figure and table of references arranged alphabetically, and which I used to prepare this paper. I concluded this work with English extract so that non-speakers of Arabic can figure out its content easily and decide if they can benefit from it.