Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī's analysis of narrations: A study of al-Tanqīḥ al-Taḥqī with a focus on the Kitāb al-Ṭahārah section

This thesis examines the narrations included in the Kitāb al-Ṭahāra section of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī's (d. 744/1343) work Tanqīḥ al-Taḥqīq fī Aḥādīth al-Taʿlīq. The study consists of two main chapters. The first chapter explores the author's life, scholarly personality, teachers, and students; it also presents his position in the field of ḥadīth and his intellectual environment based on classical sources. Moreover, the fundamental characteristics of his understanding of ḥadīth and his perspective on the relationship between ḥadīth and fiqh are discussed in general terms. The second chapter investigates how Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī analyzed the narrations in the Kitāb al-Ṭahāra section in terms of isnād (chain of transmission) and matn (text). It focuses on narrations concerning issues such as the two qullah ḥadīth, the impurity of dogs and predatory animals, the purity of cats, purification with nabīdh (fermented drink), and the tanning of dead animal hides. The isnād structures of these narrations, the reliability assessments of their transmitters (jarḥ–taʿdīl), and textual variations are identified and examined. Their connection to related legal rulings is also analyzed, thereby contributing to a better understanding of the ḥadīth–fiqh relationship of the period. In this regard, the study aims to provide a closer insight into Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī's ḥadīth methodology and to reveal how the narrations related to purification were evaluated from a scholarly perspective. Keywords: Ḥadīth, Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī, narration, jarḥ–taʿdīl, purification (ṭahāra), isnād, criticism