مدلول مصطلح مجهول عند الإمام البزار: من خلال دراسة الرواة الذين أطلق عليهم ذلك في مُسْنَده

The meaning of Imam al-Bazzār’s term of Majhūl through studying the narrators who were described by this term in his Musnad

Abstract

This research presents Imam al-Bazzār’s term ‘Majhūl [unknown] Narrator’ Through studying the narrators who are described by this term in his Musnad [Collection of Hadiths] in order to understand what the term means to him. The term is one of the invalidation [al-Jarḥ] terms according to hadith critics. I started the research with giving a brief introduction of Imam al-Bazzār, and then defined the term “Majhūl Narrator” by linguists, Hadith critics and its narrators. Then I explained the significance of the term according to Imam al-Bazzār through studying the narrators who are described by this term in his Musnad, comparing his sayings with the sayings of other hadith critics on each one of these narrators. Then I came to a conclusion of each one, showing the judgement on him, and what Imam al-Bazzār meant by the term for each of them. Finally, I concluded the research with the most important results.