Abstract:

In addition to his being a good mu ḥ addith , because he is one of the great scholars of the  Ḥ anaf ī  school, al- ʿ Ayn ī  is an important example for the classification of the mu ḥ addith-faq ī h  scholar, which is rarer in the  Ḥ anaf ī  school than in other schools of Islamic law. On the other hand, given that Bukh ā r ī ’s  Ṣ a ḥ ī ḥ  is regarded as the most reliable book after the Qur’an, since  Ḥ anaf īs , who have been come under criticisms in many aspects in consequence of being ahl al-ra’y, such as opposing to authentic prophetic sayings (a ḥ ā d ī th ) and practicing with weak prophetic sayings, have not practiced with some prophetic sayings in Bukh ā r ī ’s  Ṣ a ḥ ī ḥ , criticisms have been intensified against them and they had been accused further in regard to practicing with  ḥ ad ī th. In the hope of being a response for the claims in question, this article examines how  ʿ Aynî, who had twice been a  Ḥ anaf ī  judge during his life, assesses these  ḥ ad ī ths with both his identity of faq ī h  and mu ḥ addith  and how he responses to the criticisms directed against  Ḥ anaf īs .

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