AI Summary & Key Takeaways
AI InsightAhmad Amin passed away in Cairo in 1954.
📌 3 Key Takeaways
Abstract
Ahmad Amin b Ibrahim al-Tabbah, one of the prominent scholars raised in Egypt and he was born in Cairo in 1886. He received his initial education from his father and enrolled in al-Azhar at the age of 14. Ahmad Amin, who briefly worked as a primary school teacher, enrolled in the “Madrasa al-Qadâ'i al-Shar'iyya” and served as a judge for four years. In 1926, through Taha Hussein, he joined the Faculty of Literature at Cairo University and was appointed as the dean of the Faculty of Literature in 1939. Ahmad Amin, influenced by Carl Brockelmann and other orientalists, applied the Western criticism method in his works. Therefore, his works have been criticized by Muslim circles in the fields of hadith, tafsir, and Arabic literature. He authored works such as “Fajr al-Islâm”, “Duhâ’l-Islâm”, and “Zuhur al-Islâm”. In these works, which are part of a series, he analyzes and critiques the history of Islamic civilization and culture from the beginning of Islâm to the tenth century. Ahmad Amin dedicated approximately 15 pages of his work “Fajr al-Islâm” to the subject of hadith. In this work, he first defines Hadith, stating that hadith was not written down in the early period but transmitted orally. He argues that due to various reasons, some hadiths were fabricated, and as a result, the criticism of hadith began during that time. AhmAd Amin claimed that there are some fabricated hadiths in Bukharî and Muslim, that the scholars of hadith were inconsistent in the science of jarh and ta'dil, and that there were issues with the transmissions of certain companion narrators. Ahmad Amin passed away in Cairo in 1954.
Özet
Kahire’de doğan Ahmed Emin tüm tahsilini Mısır’da tamamlamıştır. Başta Carl Brockelmann olmak üzere bazı oryantalistlerden etkilenmiş ve eserlerinde batı tenkit sistemini uygulamıştır. O, Fecrü’l-İslâm, Duha’l-İslâm ve Zuhrü’l-İslâm adlı eserlerinde İslâm medeniyet tarihini tahlil ve tenkit etmiştir. Ahmed Emin, Fecrü’l-İslâm’dahadisin tanımını yaparak ilk dönemde yazılmadığını, şifahi olarak nakledildiğini ve bazı hadislerin uydurulduğunu iddia etmiştir. O, Buhârî ve Müslim’de uydurma hadislerin olduğunu, muhaddislerin cerh ve ta’dil konusunda tutarsızlık içerisinde bulunduklarını ve bazı sahabi ravilerin rivayetlerinde problemler olduğunu ileri sürmüştür. Bu konudaki görüşlerinden dolayı tenkide maruz kalmış ve 1954’te Kahire’de vefat etmiştir.