Abstract:

The tradition of collecting forty hadiths in Islamic civilization has existed since the second hijri century. This genre was also the subject of poem (manzume) during the Ottoman period. One of the post-Republican examples of this genre, which was also the subject of poems in the Ottoman period, is the forty hadith in verse called Kenzü'l-fuad, which belongs to Khashoggi Ali Rıza Konevi, one of the caliphs of Esad Erbilî, the Nakşî-Khâlidî sheikh and also a resident in Medina. The book was written as both poem and prose, and it is at the beginning of the author's Divan. In this study, information about Kenzü'l-fuad, especially the determination of the names of forty hadiths, their reason and the tradition of copyrighting forty hadiths up to Konevi are given. Then, the determinations about the authenticity of the narrations are analyzed in the presence of tables and graphics. According to this, 37 of the 69 narrations in the work are authentic hadiths (54%), 23 are weak hadiths (33%), 7 are inauthentic and fabricated hadiths (10%) and 2 are as predecessors’ words (3%). In addition, the sources used by the author while choosing the narrations are searched and it is concluded that Suyûtî's work named al-Câmiu's- Sağîr is the most important source of the author. The content of the preferred narrations and his method of commentary on the hadiths are another examined issue in the study.

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