Muḥaddithīn’s Critique of Al-Wāqidī’s Narrations: A Critical & Applied Study of the Narrations by Ibn-e-‘Adī
Abstract
Muhammad Ibn ‘Umar Al-Wāqidī is one of the famous Muslim historians, got recognition and prominence in the 2nd century A.H. He introduced new trends in writing and composition of historic narratives. He is considered the first Muslim historian who talked about the historical events and what were root causes of their happening and finally analyzed their consequences. Many Muḥaddithīn consider him an authentic and reliable source for historical narratives of the Holy Prophet’s campaigns during the last decade of his life in Madinah. Due to the authenticity of his narratives, they quoted him extensively in their works when write about the life of Holy Prophet ﷺ. Although, he is one of the credible historians and weighed as reliable but some of the Muḥaddithīn criticized him by not following the applied methodology in hadith transmission. The current paper discusses all the narratives which were considered to be the root cause of Muḥaddithīn's critique on Al-Wāqidī. The focus of the paper is on the twelve narratives quoted by the prominent critique Ibn-e-‘Adī. Finally, this paper analyses the denial of Ibn-e-‘Adī on Al-Wāqidī’s narratives extensively with several aspects and concludes that criticism of Ibn-e-‘Adi is correct or incorrect.
Dr. Abdul Samad Sheikh. (2018) مرويات الواقدي التي سبّبت الطعن فيه عند المحدثين (دراسة نقدية تطبيقية للمرويات التي أنكرها ابن عدي), AFKĀR (Journal of Islamic & Religious Studies) , Volume 2, Issue 2.
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