Lifting the Blame from the Criticized: Including Those from Whom Imam Al-Bukhari Narrated a Single Hadith [Al-Tabi'in (The Followers) as an Example

Abstract

Identifying the follower narrators for whom Al-Bukhari included one narration in the Sahih (and speaking about them from the point of view of their justice or from the point of view of their control, in terms of: enumerating their number according to their different classes, explaining the origin of the criticism directed at them, revealing its source, and clarifying the ways to ward it off according to the strength of the evidence and sobriety guide.The current study followed the inductive approach of tracing the names of the classes of narrators spoken of among Bukhari’s men and knowing the number of their narrations. To distinguish the followers from them, and for whom Al-Bukhari included one narration in Al-Sahih; To count them, and determine the source of the criticism directed at them, I also followed the critical approach: which consists of studying the appeals directed at these narrators, and criticizing them, while explaining Al-Bukhari’s methods in grading their hadiths, and justifying that according to the strength of the proof and the relevance of the evidence.The number of Tabi’n (The followers)narrators whose hadiths were criticized by Imam al-Bukhari, and for whom only one hadith was produced, was fourteen Tabi’is(plural of Tabia), that is, 20% of the total number of Tabi’n narrators who spoke about it, among the men of Sahih, who numbered sixty-nine narrators, as was The number of those who spoke about it from the standpoint of justice among those who produced one hadith was five narrators, while the number of those who spoke about it from the standpoint of control was nine narrators.Imam al-Bukhari’s craft of selection was evident in those among Al-Tabi’n (the followers) who produced a single hadith for them who spoke about them.It is necessary to return to the context of the words of the critical imams(plural of Imam )in their sources as much as possible. Perhaps their words were taken out of context and implied something that was intolerable.We recommend that the current study conduct applied studies of the critical narrators of the Sahih men according to their classes.