Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
CUMHURIYET ILAHIYAT DERGISI-CUMHURIYET THEOLOGY JOURNAL, cilt.23, sa.2, ss.787-811, 2019 (ESCI)
Ibn al-Qass (d. 335/946), one of the representatives of the Shafii school of law in the 4th/10th century, compiled a short treatise of extraordinary nature: Fawaid Hadith Abi Umeyr. In this work, he deduces sixty different wajhs (verdicts, comments) from a hadith reporting the Prophet's interest and affection to a child known as Aba Umayr and his family during a visit he paid after Aba Umayr's birdie died by jokingly telling him in rhyme, "ya Aba Umayr, ma faala al-nughayr" (O Aba Umayr, what happened to the nughayr?) This study deals with the primary goal of the composition of the Fawaid, its content, and structural qualities as well as the author's approach in deducing verdicts. As one of the ashab al-wujah, the author's legal/madhhab notion and the literalist and external perspective he developed regarding the interpretation of texts, seems to have directly affected his deductive reasoning and determined his approach. This concise work not only sheds light over certain aspects of the relationship between hadith and fiqh at the time of Ibn al-Qass, but also exemplifies to what extent methodological tendencies and personal factors might affect the process of deriving verdicts from hadith and could push the limits in that regard.