Özet:

Forty hadiths are one of the most published fields in hadith literature. In the historical process, many scholars dealing with hadith sciences have a study of forty hadiths and compilation of forty hadiths has become a tradition among scholars. While the hadiths in these works are sometimes related to a subject, sometimes they have different contents. These works, which have been compiled to date, have been the subject of many academic studies and varied readings on different occasions. In this article, the work named Kitâbu'l-Erbaîn by Abū al-Fadl al-Hasen b. Mahmûd ar-Recâyenî al-Isbahânî’, which does not have much information about him, has been examined. The life of the author, the description of the copy and the sources of the hadiths reported in the work were studied. The life of the author, the description of the manuscript, and the sources of the hadiths reported in the work were studied. This book does not have any difference in content and order when compared to other forty hadith works. However, it is of great importance in terms of the history of hadith that the author gives information about the level of interest of scholars in the field of hadith in the century and geography he lived in the Introduction of the work. Therefore, this information gives an idea about the place of Isfehan region in hadith history in the eighth century of Hijrî.

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