Mustafa ÖZTÜRK / Mawali narrators of Hadith and the Influence of pre-Islamic Cultures on the Hadith: The First Two Century of Hijrah

Abstract: It is generally argued and implied that at the very beginning of the 2nd year of the Hijrah, the Mawaali established a superior position in religious sciences and through them a foreign influence entered into the hadith literature. A careful study of the number of the narrators from among the early stage would reveal that the first is not true. This study also considers that there are two positions as far as the mawaali narrators are concerned: one is that those, like Abdullah b. Salam and Salman al-Farisi, who continued narrating under the influence of their pre-Islamic religious culture; the other is those non-Arab narrators, such as Mâlik b. Dînâr, ibn ishak and ibn Juraij, of second or third generation whose fathers or grandfathers were converts to Islam that transmitted ahadith with various elements from foreign religious and cultural environments.

Citation: Mustafa ÖZTÜRK, “Mawali narrators of Hadith and the Influence of pre-Islamic Cultures on the Hadith: The First Two Century of Hijrah” (In Turkish), Hadis Tetkikleri Dergisi, (HTD), III/2, 2005, pp. 7-37.

Key words: Mawali, fabricated hadith, orientalism, Abdullah b. Salâm, Salmân al-Fârisî, Taabioon.

  

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