The Narrators Whose Companionship Was Proven by Imam Al-Bukhari but Their Hadith Was Not Proven: A Critical Study

Abstract

The Imams of Hadith criticism were keen to know the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) and distinguish them from others, so they classified works in this regard; because by knowing them, the mursal hadith is distinguished from the muttasil hadith. They had several ways to prove the Companionship, including the establishment of the Companionship of the narrator by his narration of the hadith from the Prophet (peace be upon him). Imam Al-Bukhari's (may God have mercy on him) work in his book "The Great History" had a unique style and phrases that attract the attention of the researcher in this chapter, where we find him proving the Companionship of the narrator and then denying the establishment of the hadith, which prompted the researcher to follow these phrases through this research, which she titled "The Narrators Whose Companionship Was Proven by Imam Al-Bukhari but Their Hadith Was Not Proven: A Critical Study." The study was based on two aspects: the theoretical aspect: it included a review of Al-Bukhari's methodology in "The Great History" in which these phrases appeared, which undoubtedly helps in revealing his meaning, and then on "Al-Bukhari's phrases" that he used to try to understand them through the context in which they came, and the applied aspect: by translating thirteen Companions whose Companionship Al-Bukhari established with an explicit text, and denied the establishment of their hadith, where the study stood on a number of clues surrounding the narrator who established the Companionship other than the weak narration; which makes the saying that Imam Al-Bukhari establishes the Companionship by weak narration a very remote saying - in the researcher's point of view and God knows best - and an injustice to Imam Al-Bukhari, not commensurate with his majesty and progress in this art.