Citation and evaluation of hadiths in Begavi's Mealimü't-Tenzil commentary (Nisâ and Mâide surahs of the qoran)

In this study we tried to make citation and evaluate of hadiths in the Beğavi's Mealimü't-Tenzil commentary and tried to expose reliability of the commentary from the point of hadith. Beğavi (516/1122) is a muhaddis (traditionist), exegete and also a good jurists (faqih) of Shafii related 333 hadiths in his Nisâ and Mâide surahs commentary of Qoran. As regards these hadiths authenticities, we can say from the opinions of the critics traditionists that 252 of them are authentic (saheeh), 18 of them are good (hasen), 46 of them are weak, and 2 of them is fabricated (mevzu) hadith. On the authenticities od 15 hadiths are conflict. As seen he has used authentic hadiths (%78) from the large part of the authentic rumors. Percentage of weak hadiths is %14. 264 rumors which is used in the commentary are in the basic hadith sources which is named Kütüb-i Tis'a and 29 of them is in the other hadith sources. Also 40 of them are in the other sources which are not hadiths resources. Source of 6 rumors could not be detected. Accordingly all hadith of the Kütüb-i Tis'a hadith book ratio is %80, and the others is %9. The detected hadiths outside of hadith sources is %12. Keywords: Beğavî, Mealimü't-Tenzîl, Hadith, Citation, Attribute.