Hadith narration in the period of Tâbi'ûn (between 75-135/694-753)

The hadith narration, which the Companions continued with a more natural process, started to gain a systematic structure with the tadwin, which is an important turning point. The tadwin activity, which aims to record the hadiths and transfer them to the next generation and coincides with the Tâbi'ûn (successors) period, brought along discussions and structural differentiations reflecting the transition process in systematic hadith transmission. As the prominent subjects before the tadwin; successors mostly maintained the understanding of narration of the Companions with features such as refraining from narrating hadiths unless questions were asked, presenting information about different branches of science together in councils, transmitting hadiths in the form of a fatwa from time to time, and preferring to narrate few hadiths. On the other hand, the situation changed among the younger successors who had the idea of tadwin, they asked their teachers to narrate more hadiths, asked them for their sources, and opposed the idea of not writing the hadiths. These requests, which caused the reaction of the teachers at the first stage, started to become valid over time, so at the end of the successors period, practices such as regularly narrating hadiths in special councils, including direct hadith narration, handling, and writing many more hadiths in one session, and narration of hadiths with their isnads has become valid. In addition, the fact that the muksirûn narrator profile, who learned the hadiths of a certain teacher and was content with transferring them to a few students, gradually gave way to the profile of the mudawwin narrator, who learned hadith from many teachers and transferred to many students, has become a feature in which the change in hadith narration can be followed. On the other hand, the acceleration of hadith narration in the successors period necessitated the research of many narrators newly included in the narration network in terms of narration by meaning, tahammul methods, and reliability, therefore pioneering steps were taken in the successors period to determine these issues.