Ibn Hagar's Defence on Bukhari's Narrators: an Evaluation Spesific to Had-yu Al-Sari

Abstract

Al-Bukhari's al-Cami al-Sahih wasn't seemed different, after its being classified from other Hadith books during a few centuries. During this period some hadith scholars praised it and criticized others. This book, from the sixth century Hijri has been accepted the most authentic source of Islamic knowledge after the Qur'an by the most of Muslims. Some hadith scholars have seen the hadiths in this work and the narrators who narrated them on the peak of reliability. Because of that, they have tried to eliminate criticism against them with their arguments. In this article, Bukhari's narrators who defended in the ninth chapter of Ibn Hagar's book that named Hadyu al-Sari were examined. In this chapter, 464 Bukhari's narrator was defended by Ibn Hajar. In the article, the Bukhari's narrators who defended in this book were examined in seven separate sections. In that examination, the method of Ibn Hajar's defense of these narrators was tried to determine. In this determination, also from the comments of the other supporters on the critisized narrators were benefited.