امام ابن ابی حاتم کی تفسرمیں وارد چند مختلط رُواۃ کا تحقیتی ممطالعہ

A Research Study of Some Baffled Narrators (مختلط رواۃ) In Tafseer Ibn-i-Abi-Hathim

Abstract

From very beginning after revelation of the Holy Quran, many people attached to Islam started to serve this Holy Book from various aspects. And when Islam got spread to several regions many non-Arab embrace the message of Islam and they stated to put their efforts toward serving Islam. With the passage of time a lot of scholars came in to being. One of them was Ibn-i-abi-Hathim who born in 240 AH and got knowledge from the shining scholars of his era. After schooling he started to contribute to the world libraries. He wrote several precious books one of them is his tafseer which is known as Tafseer Ibn-i-Abi-Hathim. Wherein, he collected the narrative style of interpretation of the Holy Quran. He collected many Ahadith and quotations of the Salaf (leading scholars) towards the interpretation of the Holy Quran. Although he was a great expert of judgment of the narrators’ biography, he didn’t give attention to differentiate between the trustworthy and insubstantial Ahadith and quotations for interpretation of the Holy Quran. As there are a lot of causes/reasons for declaring a Hadith to be weak, and one these causes is baffling of a narrator of a hadith, we drawn a short sketch of this kind of narrators in this article with a research way. Furthermore, as it is a case study of a specific area in an occupied book, that is why, we’ve acquired descriptive method of research in this article. First we defined the term of a confused narrator, then we wrote the biographies of some specific confused narrator and then it was added a sample of this kind of hadith or quotation. This will help the new scholars in sorting out such areas, and will make them know elaborate such kind of questionable areas.