Are the Muammarun Source of Elevated Isnad?: A Study of the Awali Genre

Abstract

This article aims to reveal the effect of the narrations of the adiths by dishonest rawis, who lived between hijri 2nd and 8th centuries and claimed to be from the descendants of companions or successors, in the history of the adith through works of awali genre. Since the main issue that these people lie about is their lifetimes, if they can find a place for themselves in the isnad system, it is expected that the effect of this will appear first in the narrations with short isnads. On this occasion, after determining the effect of a long life on elevated isnad, the lives and claims of sixteen people who claim that they live well above an average human lifetime will be examined from the works of the type of biographical dictionaries. Later, the narrations of these narrators will be determined among twenty awali genres copyrighted between hijri 5th and 9th centuries. In this way, it will be revealed how much people who say that they live long and imply that they have elevated isnads can have a place among such narrations.