Abstract:

One of the most important sciences of hadith sciences aiming at understanding of the Prophet’s sayings and doings, is the muhtelifu’l-hadis science. Abdul-vehhâb Sha’rânî presented, in his book called al-Mizân al-Kubra, a different approach towards differences found between some prophetic traditions. In this book, Sha’ranî made an attempt to solve not only differences between some fıqhi traditions but also differences between some scholars of the Islamic sects. According to Sha’ranî, “mizan (scales)” is a balance which we must evaluate and balance of all knowledge we have, including keshfî (self discovered - intuitive) knowledge. In fact, Mizan is the sharia itself. Judgments of the sharia are directing itself towards two model of men, one of which is strong and the other weak. According to Sha’ranî, if we perform two sides of mizan which are azimah (firm intention) and ruhsah (facilitation) to the so called differences among Prophetic traditions and among fıqhi judgments, there would not be left any such difference in reality. In this article, we have dealt with Sha’ranî’s mizan method in terms of Prophetic traditions and made some evaluations on that issue.

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