Abstract:

This study is about the narration about the marriage of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and Mary, which was conveyed in a video shared on YouTube in 2022 and entered the agenda of Turkey with the sharing of a news site on Twitter in early 2023. The aim of the study is to draw attention to the fact that there may be problems regarding the authenticity and source of the narrations shared in the virtual world. In order to fulfill the aforementioned purpose, firstly the course of the narration in the virtual world was discussed, then the sources of the narration were identified and the narration was analyzed. When citing sources, only basic hadith sources were included; in the analysis, sanad and matn (text) criticism methods were applied. As a result of the study, it was determined that the post about the video containing the narration entered the agenda of Turkey in one day, was watched by more than four million people and caused reactions from different segments. After the establishment (takhrij), the narration is found in Taberani’s Mujam al-qebir and Mujam al-avsat and İbn al-Sünni’s Amal al-yavm ve al-layl, with five variants from Abu Umama, Sad b. Junadah, Aisah, Abu Hurayrah and Ibn Abu Rawwad has been detected. As a result of the criticism of the sanad and the matn (text), it was concluded that all variants of the narration were weak for different reasons and that they also had some problems in terms of text; therefore, it turned out that the narration was not authentic.

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