مراسيل مصنف إبن أبي شيبة : جمعا ودراسة نقدية (كتاب الطهارة - كتاب الجنائز(

Abstract

This research has addressed the Mursal Hadith in the Musannaf (Compilation) of ibn Abi Shaybah (٢٣٥ Hijrah), through collecting the mursal Hadith from the Book of Purification (al-Taharah) to the Book of Funeral Processions (al-jana'iz), studying them in terms of their text (matn) and ascription (chain of narration-sanad). It also brief introduces their narrators, looking for their attestation in the book of Hadith and subsequently classifying them according to their relevant goods, elevating their goods into substantiated good narrations (Hasan li ghayrih) due to their uninterrupted transmission or due to their attestation, if present. The researcher has expressed the importance of studying this Musannaf (Compilation), it being among the most important early writings on Hadith. It is considered a fundamental reference that could be relied on for deriving rules, the licit and the illicit, due to its great narrative and jurisprudential content, considering its compiler's high rank in this field of knowledge. The researcher has also defined the mursal (incompletely transmitted) Hadith at the beginning of the research, and illustrated the reasons behind such transmission. The transmission of a follower (mursal al-Hadith) has been found to be a controversial issue among scholars, where some state that it is weak and could not be considered an authoritative source, while others accepted it as such, and others had accepted some of the same, but rejected the rest. The researcher has followed, while conducting this research, both the inductive and critical research methodologies.