Imam al-Bukhārī's methodology regarding gharīb al-ḥadīth in his al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaḥīḥ

The science of hadith is basically divided into two parts, one of which is narrated al-hadith and the other is dirāyat al-hadith. The science of narration focuses on the transmission of hadiths to the next generations and concentrates more on the senedas. On the other hand, the science of dirāyat al-ḥadīth examined both the narrator and the narrations in terms of acceptance or rejection. In the historical process, the science of gharīb al-hadīth emerged as a sub-branch of this branch in order to explain the words in hadīth texts whose meaning remained obscure and were not understood due to their rare use. Although it is possible to trace the nucleus of this science to the period in which the Prophet was present, it only became an independent branch of science in the II./III century AH. II./VIII century. Many factors such as the dialectal differences in Arabic, the distortions of the language by non-Arabs who had recently entered Islam, and the existence of idioms and phrases that were difficult to understand paved the way for the emergence of this branch of science. In this process, firstly, a linguistic movement was followed, and then it led to the writing of detailed books dealing with many aspects of garīb al-ḥadīths. It is generally accepted that the author of the first detached work in this field was Abū Ubayda Ma'mer b. al-Musnā. In the following periods, many important figures such as Abū Ubayd Qasim b. Sallam, Ibn Qutayba, al-Khattābī, Zamakhsharī, and Ibn al-Asīr produced important works in the field of garīb al-hadīth. It should be emphasized that many works on the subject were written in almost every period of hadith history, but most of them have not survived to the present day. It should be noted that some aspects of the science of gharīb al-hadīth have also been the subject of academic research in our country, articles have been written in this context, and master's and doctoral theses have been prepared. Al-Bukhārī's al-Jami al-Sahīh is also an important source that contains strange words and phrases from many perspectives. It is important to analyze the strange hadīths identified in this work in the light of the works and commentaries created in the name of the field by combining them together in order to obtain a high level of understanding from the musannif's book. While evaluating al-Bukhārī's work in this context, a different perspective is intended to be presented by analyzing the section that includes the explanations of the author in addition to the headings created in the context of the explanations of the Prophet and the generations that followed him chronologically, namely the Companions, the Tābiīn and the tabaū al-tābiīn.