Özcan HIDIR / On The Claims of Judaic Culture’s Influence on Hadiths

Abstract: Although it is difficult to address the first orientalist who claimed the influence of Jews culture on hadiths or to try to relate hadith to the texts of Bible, the Frenchman Barthelmy d’Herbelot (d. 1695) was the first orientalist claiming that many chapters in the hadith literature including al-Kutub al-Sitta were borrowed from Talmud. The ideas and claims of some orientalists like A. Sprenger, I. Goldziher, G. Vajda and S. Rosenblatt, to the end of 18th centuries, leading to many discussions, were defended and developed with new arguments by many orientalists. Nowadays, the influence of these claims in Turkey and in other parts of the Islamic World rises to a serious hadith problem. In addition to the role of the conversion movement in the Early Islam and the first Jews converts to Islam, the non-Arabs known as ‘al-mawali’ especially in Ummayad period and the poets like Ümeyye b. Ebi’s-Salt of the Jahilliya period who were believed to read the early holly books, and preachers, are the most important factors playing role in this influence. In this study, we attempt to analyze the socalled claims and the factors, in the perspectives of the Islamic scholars to view the Jews-Christian traditions.

Citation: Özcan HIDIR, “Yahudi Kültürünün Hadislere Etkisi iddialari” (in Turkish), Hadis Tetkikleri Dergisi (HTD), III/1, 2005, pp. 7-38.

Key words: Jews culture, hadith, influence, isrâiliyyat, claims, conversion, mawali, preachers.

  

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