Abstract:

Bukhari’s scientific competence and his success in classification and arrangement have an effect in the reputation of al-Jami al-Sahih, which is accepted as the most reliable book in hadith literature. Although al-Jami al-Sahih is a hadith book actually, it also contains some explanations about verses and hadiths because Bukhari wants to reach a judgment by evaluating the verses and hadiths that he transmitted together. In this context, it is one of the methods that he uses to explain the rare words in the hadith by verses and when necessary to benefit from narratives for this purpose. The main purpose of this method is to determine the common words between the hadith and the verse and to explain the hadith by the original word or similar ones in the Qur’an. However, it is also seen that instead of the word in the hadith text, another synonymous word is explained or used to take attention to the fact that words are different from each other. Generally, Bukhari makes these kinds of explanations after transmitting hadiths, but sometimes does at the beginning of heading of the sub-chapters (abwāb). It is clear that explanation of the rare words in the hadith texts by verse will contribute to the understanding and interpretation of the hadith under the supervision of the Qur’an. However, it is not possible to claim that it is the only method of understanding and interpretation, and it is also too difficult to apply it to all hadith texts.

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