İlk Devir Sûfîlerin Hadis Birikimleri

Abstract

The first Islamic society established in accordance with the model of Prophet Muhammad has gradually changed following the period of Companions. His ascetic way of life was also effected by this change and it has been transformed into tasawwuf and tariqats. The Muslim world encountered with foreign cultures began to be interacted with these cultures and the Islamic sufism based on al-Qur’an and al-Sunnah was influnced by these new circumstances. It is clearly understood from the works written by the sufis of the first five centuries that they were also well educated in the Islamic sciences just like other Muslim scholars. The sufis differ from the exoteric and esoteric method of interpretation since they have practiced symbolic interpretation in hadith. The interpretations which they made according to some principles have been addressed mainly to heart. Nevertheless, as claimed, they don’t acquire peculiar methods, but they have not used invented hadiths in their works either, as it is supposed.