سبق المحدثين في استخدان مناهج البحث العلمي : الحكم على الرواة نموذجا

Abstract EN

This study demonstrates that early Muslim Scholars in the ‘Documentation Period’ had the lead in formulating methodological rules, and that the process of judging the Hadith narrators was based on these rules rather than mere whims and opinions.

The difference in contemporary scholars' research methodology from that of early Hadith scholars does not rule out that earlier scholars have had the lead in this field.

It is a rather similar process in all sciences in which features start out broad and general, then are detailed, clarified, and codified with the development of time and concerted efforts.

The study highlights the features of scientific method in research efforts to discern the conditions of narrators, in theory and in practice, using well-known models of scientific methods such as analysis, induction and comparison.