الجهالة عند المحدثين : تعريفها، أسبابها و طرق رفعها

Abstract EN

The ignorance of the narrator is considered one of the investigation topics in modern Hadith history science, there are some Hadith where narrators considered unknown, but their narrations were accepted, ignorance of Hadith narrators contrast with the first rule in the acceptance of narration, i.e.

conditions of fairness and justice of the narrator.

Hence the task was to collect what scholars disagree on unknown narrators, and to analyze the saying of the scholars about ignorance causes and types and when scholars accept the Hadith of the unknown narrators and considers the benefits could be gained from control sets made by the scholars to either accept or reject a Hadith of unknown narrators in our contemporary reality.

Ignorance has many types, according to the inner and apparent fairness (justice), the most difficult type which cannot detect the defect of the narrator’s fairness and the least difficult one is that which its fairness is veiled and could not be detected.

The ignorance of the narrator harms attribution, causing in rejection of the Hadith, the ignorance of the narrator’s himself and the condition will reject the narration absolutely and would not be accepted.

The Hadith of the narrator of the unknown condition would be accepted among most of scholars even if said by defamed person.

The Hadith of the unknown narrator whose reputation is good, who is known among people with good characteristics like generosity and courage ; his narration is accepted.