Ibn Ḥajar’s Thoughts On Criticism Of Hadith Narrators: A Study Of The Book Lisān Al-Mizān

Abstract

This article aims to reveal a hadith scholar ibn Ḥajar in assessing the narrators of hadith in the book Lisān al-Mīzān. His thinking is a way of assessing hadith narrators as an effort to clarify the thoughts of previous scholars such as al-Żahabī in the book Mizān al-I'tidāl and other scholars who have judged individuals in hadith narrations as d}aīf for various reasons. He has revised the names of the existing but missing narrators (rijāl al-hadīṡ) in the sittah book, then explained the names of the unclear or ambiguous hadith transmitters by using explanations such as their real names, nicknames, pseudonym , or father's names and his lineage. From this book he has explained information using codes and symbols as well as additional information which is sometimes just a brief but clear explanation, so that the information from the book is very helpful for hadith experts to know hadith narrators who are foreign to other hadith experts. Ibnu Ḥajar advised that the assessment of hadith from the perspective of rāwi must be thorough, so that the assessment of the quality of the hadiths of ṣaḥīḥ, ḥasan and ḍaīf can be clear and clear by subsequent hadith researchers and not a misjudgment. So, hadith research that is considered to be of weak quality because one scholar has a problem with a rāwī may be of ṡiqah or ṣadūq for other scholars because the rāwī is actually a different person.