Amasya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi

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“Forty hadith” is one of the field in which most
written works in the Hadith literature. Many scholars who have been engaged in
the Hadith sciences have at least one forty hadith compilations. One of the
scholars who contributed to forty hadith literature is Abdulmecīd b. Nasūh b.
Israel (d. 996/1588) who was one of the Ottoman writers in the sixteenth
century. Abdulmecīd, who educated himself in different disciplines, wrote many
books on fields such as tafsîr, hadith, fiqh, sufism, education, literature and
morality. Forty hadith work of Abdulmecīd named ʿArafâtü’l-ʿârifîn li’l-vuḳūf fi mevḳıfi ʿibâdeti rabbi’l-ʿâlemîn fî eḥâdîs̱i Seyyidi’l-murselîn have been examined in this article.
Although this work was a collection of forty hadiths, one hadith was omitted
and thirty-nine hadiths were narrated. Each hadith was translated by the author
with the sixteenth century Ottoman Turkish as poetry and prose. Some of the
terms of theology, fiqh and hadith were discussed in order to provide a better
understanding of the hadiths. It was seen that the hadiths of this work were
narrated mostly from Sahîhayn except for a few. Poetic translation of
the hadiths of Arafâtü’l-ʿârifîn were also
transcribed and given about their measures (vezin) in this study.