Judgment on Hadiths According to Imam Daoudi

Abstract

Tripoli, west of Libya, embraced many imams of hadith, including Imam Ahmed bin Nasr Al-Daoudi. He was born in Algeria and then moved to Tripoli in the West, where he settled and spread knowledge, during the days of the state of the plight of Bani Ubaid in Almaghrib, who were the cause of the deterioration of political, social and scientific life. Where their history was famous for injustice, insulting the Companions and killing alaulamah, until innovations and evils appeared in their state, and the people of corruption increased and the righteous among them were few among the alaulamah and servants. The one who is interested in the science of hadith must know the efforts of al-Dawudi in hadith, due to his position and progress in this art. The one who is interested in the science of hadith must know the efforts of al-Dawudi in hadith, due to his position and progress in this art. He can only do that after a lot of trouble, because of the loss of most of his precious books and classifications. The research aims to know the efforts of Daoudi in judging hadiths, and to clarify what is accepted from them and what is not. Moreover, one of the results of the research is that Al-Daoudi is an imam in criticizing the narrators; He was not just a transmitter of the rulings of others, rather he had a prominent effect in correcting hadiths, criticism and explaining the reasons, so he used several words in jarh and ta’deel, and heopted some of the words that indicate acceptance, such as his saying: it is proven, or the established, and his saying: it is not correct, and in its chain of transmission a look at the hadith in which there is fault, and his saying: In the chain of transmission of the hadith there is an article, and this is for the chain of transmission that the scholars differed regarding the authentication of one of its men. Al-Dawudi confined himself to the least that would achieve the purpose, and he did not go beyond that to anything above it.