Analyzing the Idea and Its Role in Understanding Hadith Developments; a Case Study of the Idea " Inauspiciousness of Women"

Document Type : Research Article

Author

• Ali Ahang

Assistant Professor, Department of Tafsir and Quran Studies, Faculty of Quranic Sciences, University of Quranic Studies and Sciences, Bojnord, Iran

10.22067/jquran.2023.82693.1530

Abstract

The famous narration "Al-Shuʾmu fi al-marʾati wa al-farasi wa al-dār" brings to mind the idea of "inauspiciousness of women". This narration has been attributed to the Prophet (PBUH) in the Sunni narrative sources. Also, it has sometimes been ascribed to both Imam Ṣādiq and the Prophet in the Shiʾa narrative sources. By using a descriptive-analytical method and based on the library sources, in this study, the idea as well as other narrations reminding it have been analyzed. According to the results, some of these narrations which are considered as "basic narrations" in promoting the idea, have been formed in Medina, and some Medinan traditionists had a leading role in their propagation. Their fabrication is confirmed by the uniqueness of the first three classes of narrators and the conflict of their content with the munificent view of the Quran and the Prophet (PBUH). Also, there are several dispersed narrations which have been formed following the basic narrations and are considered as reactions to the idea. These reactions can be classified into four categories: conditional, explanatory and causative, adversative-corrective, and adversative -contradictory. The historical and linguistic analysis of these narrations shows that they have been formed after the narrations of the first group.

Keywords

• Hadith
• Inauspiciousness of women
• Idea analysis
• Isnad-text analysis

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