Abdullah b. Mas'ûd and hadith narration

It is the generation of the Companions who conveyed the Sunnah, one of the basic sources of Islam, to us. Knowing and understanding them well will contribute to the correct understanding of the sunnah. Abdullah b. Mas'ud was a great Companion who was always close to the Messenger of Allah, who tried to follow His example in every matter, who devoted himself to knowledge, and who knew the Qur'an and the Sunnah well. Hazrat Umar, who called him "a cube full of knowledge", sent him to a cosmopolitan city like Kufa during his caliphate, although he wanted to stay with him and benefit from him. Ibn Mas'ud, who was the teacher of this place, narrated hadiths to the people, taught the Qur'an and Sunnah, established the understanding of re'y and laid the foundation of the Kufa Tafsîr and Fiqh Schools. There are many authentic narrations in our sources that Ibn Mas'ud, who was afraid of being a hell by attributing lies to the Prophet Muhammad, narrated the hadiths for the sake of necessity without attributing them to the Messenger of Allah(pbuh). In order to investigate the accuracy of this, the sample narrations transmitted from him as merfû' and mevkûf were examined in our thesis and it was determined that the ones that were available were authentic. Again, it has been seen that some of the hadiths narrated by the other companions as merfû' were transmitted from Ibn Mas'ud as mevkûf. Although we recommend that care be taken to preserve the letter of the hadiths, the hadith style is mentioned in our works in which Ibn Mas'ud, who is of the opinion that it can be narrated with meaning, uses words that express prudence in the form of "like this or more or more than this or as he said" after narrating the hadith. However, we have been able to identify very few rumors in which these statements are found. When the hadiths transmitted from him were examined, it was seen that some of them were fatwas or general rules that he extracted from the hadith. He also refrained from narrating many hadiths. Ibn Mas'ud sometimes recited the relevant verse after the narration, as the Prophet did, in order to show which verse the hadith he narrated was related to or to support the hadith with the verse of the Qur'an. Although he could not clearly mention his narration method because the narration procedures and principles had not yet been formed, it was determined that he applied the mentioned points as a result of the examination of his narrations. He asked the Prophet about the things he was curious about or could not understand and relayed the answers he received. This is important in that it is one of the ways in which Ibn Mas'ud received hadith. He sometimes used explanatory statements after the hadith, which were narrated together with the hadith. He opposed the writing of the hadiths, but later warmed to it upon the necessity seen. He attached importance to the auction and narrated hadith from the Companions, although there were few of them. When the narrations of Ibn Mas'ud were examined, it was seen that his professions, the events he encountered during his lifetime, the love of Allah, which was very strong, and the importance he gave to prayer and congregation, were effective in the transmission of hadith. Because the narration and the narration are two elements that cannot be considered independently of each other. When the narrations of Ahmad b. Hanbal in his Musnad were classified according to the subjects, it was determined that he had the most narrations related to prayer. Abdullah b. Mas'ud, who used the Sunnah as the main source of Islam to be consulted after the Qur'an when making judgments and who stated that the source of the Sunnah was the Qur'an, made great efforts to correctly transmit the Sunnah of the Prophet to future generations. He looked at what the Prophet's purpose was rather than form and word, and he did not see everything he did as circumcision. He narrated the actual circumcisions by applying them himself. The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) sometimes used expressions such as "it is sunnah or from circumcision" for the things that he did or wanted to be done. He is of the opinion that the Prophet Muhammad should be followed exactly, especially in the matter of prayers. Ibn Mas'ud, who tried to follow His example in every matter because of his love for the Messenger of Allah, also objected against those who perceived things that were not related to religious matters as circumcision. At the same time, he abandoned the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad and strongly opposed those who portrayed what he did not do as if they were from religion, tried to prevent the spread of bid'ats with all his might, and even used a heavy language. Ibn Mas'ud devoted his life to religion and knowledge, his size is small, but the scientific heritage, traces and influences he left are great; His faith, knowledge and morality are a great Companion. A large number of studies have been carried out on him, especially in the field of fiqh and tafsir, and there are many more points that need to be studied.